Word: recommendation
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...which has listened carefully to the testimony of many black students, to declare what the "quality" of that life actually is. However, it is at least possible to determine something of the frustrations, and the hopes, experienced and expressed by black students, and, on the basis of such information, recommend certain specific courses of action which should be taken by various elements of the University in order to make the Harvard experience a more satisfactory one for the black student...
...this report does so for reasons of clarity, and emphasis, it must be stressed that they are interrelated. Clearly they are related in the minds of the affected black students, but they are substantively related as well. These interrelationships are particularly evident in those portions of this report that recommend specific action. Each recommendation will, when implemented, have an effect in more than one area of concern. Indeed, even in those cases where no specific recommendation can be offered, an awareness of the range and implications of the problems will help to define the nature of the action...
...elect to read and discuss books that bear more directly on areas in which they are interested. A special effort should also be made to enrich the Freshman Seminar offerings. There is precedent for these seminars being taught by instructors with no other Harvard teaching appointment, and we recommend that some Freshman Seminars be taught by experts and qualified persons available only elsewhere in the Cambridge/Boston area or brought to Harvard for the specific purpose of teaching Freshman Seminars...
...recommend that the existing fields of concentration reconsider their present procedures of approving research projects, and of granting concentration credit, in an awareness of the difficulties experienced by students in developing Afro-American study projects. It might be appropriate, for instance, for Departments to offer undergraduate pro-seminars for academic coordination of field-study and work-study projects, or other relevant community work, of several students. Each Department ought also make a survey of its teaching resources, and the interests of its teaching faculties, so that students would be able to find Faculty members prepared to direct and supervise unusual...
...more important in light of this is the CEP resolution. For it urges individual examination of ROTC courses and their strengthening where necessary--precisely what the memorandum from the Army urges them to recommend...