Word: professor
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...newly-appointed committee moved quickly to establish the department by setting up courses and searching for scholars. The committee soon encountered what was to be an increasingly familiar problem--it could not find scholars it wanted to tenure. Southern, the second tenured professor of the department, was not appointed until...
Although the McCree report urged haste in hiring tenured professors, Afro-Am found itself the center of controversy again in 1975, when department members and students charged the University with racism and discrimination in its decision not to offer tenure to Ephraim Isaacs, then associate professor of Afro-American Studies. Isaacs had been recommended for tenure by the department in 1971; four years later, President Bok accepted an ad hoc committee's decision not to offer Isaacs tenure...
...Rosovsky says he is surprised that Southern thinks she was inadequately consulted. "President Bok and I had a long meeting with Professor Southern during which time we explained what conclusions we had reached, and she suggested names for the executive committee," he says...
...asked her to remain as chairman of the department, but I wanted Professor Ferguson to chair the executive committee and that is what she didn't want. She felt a dual authority structure was confusing," he notes...
...department say Southern's resignation may also have stemmed from friction between Southern and department members, especially the junior faculty. "There is a great deal of animosity toward Southern among faculty and students in the department," one former concentrator notes. Some students are more blunt in their appraisal. "Professor Southern's resignation wasn't an accident or a disaster. She alienated students from the department and discouraged them from having any participation in the department. She wouldn't meet with students and wasn't responsive to them," Anthony Brutus '77-5, an Afro-Am concentrator, says...