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...report recommends a DuBois Institute completely devoted to research and separate from any teaching department--this despite the fact that Harvard chartered the institute at the same time it approved the formation of the Afro-American Studies Department and the Standing Committee on Afro-American Studies wrote the first prospectus for the institute...
...spokesman for the black alumni group also said the group will announce its position on the DuBois Institute after subsequent meetings. "People seemed to lean toward the prospectus" for the research center written in 1969 by the Faculty's Standing Committee to Develop the Afro-American Studies Department, he said...
...major conflict developed during the past spring between supporters of the Institute design offered by the 1969 prospectus and the administration, whose plan for the research institute was developed this year by Bok's advisory committee...
There are many serious flaws in the Leonard report. Unlike the original 1969 prospectus for the DuBois Institute, the Leonard report does not provide for any connection between the Institute and the Afro Department, which would fragment the growth of Afro-American studies at this university. It calls for a DuBois Institute that would be isolated from students, eliminating plans for summer research grants for students and taking students off the Board that would oversee the Institute. It eliminates any reference to offering positions as Visiting Fellows to political activists...
These are issues that concern all Harvard students, white and black alike. The United Committee of Third World Organizations has drawn up a twelve-point proposal of its own for the institute, based on the original 1969 prospectus, which deserves our support. We should all express this support to President Bok and members of the faculty. Peter S. Hogness Member of Radcliffe-Harvard New American Movement