Word: program
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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January 15: Even though the special committee report on Afro-American studies had not yet been released, the CEP met and accepted nearly all the recommendations in the unpublished report. The CEP approved plans for a degree program in Afro-American Studies, a student center for Harvard and Radcliffe blacks, and a committee to revamp African studies. Dean Ford also asked black students to choose three representatives for a new committee to look for Faculty members in the Afro-American studies program...
...Faculty's special committee on African and Afro-American studies released its mammoth report and recommended that Harvard set up a degree-granting program in Afro-American Studies. The report--the product of nine months of work by chairman Henry Rosovsky and the other committee members--spent many pages discussing the "quality of black student life at Harvard" and suggested a new student center for blacks. In a section dealing with the graduate schools, the report said that Harvard should step up its recruiting of black graduates and should provide 15 to 20 special fellowships for blacks in the grad...
February 7: After 85 black students marched into the first meeting of the Design School's Urban Violence course, the instructor agreed to call off the course and instead conduct a seminar on how to develop an urban studies program at Harvard. The blacks read a statement demanding that the Administration withdraw the course and saying "if the course is not stopped, we will seek to stop it." Siegfried Breuning, the instructor, then met with a smaller group of the students and worked out plans for the urban studies seminar...
...Cooperated with the Harvard Medical School in the Health Careers Summer Program which will bring 50 minority group college students to Harvard for a summer training program before they enter medical or dental schools...
...Started a new continuing education program for practicing dentists...