Word: program
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...meeting for students planning to concentrate in Afro-American Studies on April 7, the University showed its hand more clearly. The material in Afro-American Studies, members of the standing committee told students, would be under the control of departments outside Afro-Am. The only courses offered in the program would be tutorials: students considering an Afro-Am concentration would have to specify an "allied field" of concentration, in which they would then have to take additional tutorials. Effectively, then, the only way a student could concentrate in Afro-Am would be to major in another field and choose Afro...
...African and Afro-American Association of Harvard-Radcliffe Students (Afro), which up to that time had been the main lobbying group for Afro-American Studies on campus, reacted bitterly to the proposed program. "The Afro-American Studies program, as now conceived by the University, is so far from what Black students envisioned as to be no program in Afro-American Studies at all," an Afro statement said the next...
Feelings ran high. Afro soon added its demands for an autonomous Afro-Am department to those of the SDS, which called for expulsion of the military Reserve Officers Training Corps (ROTC) program from campus, and an end to Harvard's plans to evict tenants from apartments it owned in Cambridge and Boston, to make way for an expansion of University facilities...
...followed, and generated intense support for most of the protesters' demands, including those of Afro. The April 14 mass meeting in Soldiers' Field, which extended the strike for three days, formalized the students' list of demands; among these was a call for "the establishment of a meaningful black studies program with curriculum and requirements for tenure to be determined by the chairman of the department, and by the students...
...comprehensive energy and economic program based on renewable power sources and conservation...