Word: specializes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Faculty "expertise" ought not be a reason for discouraging students' work in such areas; rather, instructors should provide, at a minimum, appropriate professional guidance--bibliographical and methodological assistance--for those students who wish to pursue investigations in areas where no "expert" is presently available. Where black students have such special expertise, the Faculty should be encouraged to avail themselves of these resources...
...recommend that information concerning the teaching resources of Harvard in these areas be fully publicized. We further propose that a directory be prepared of Boston-area faculty members who have special knowledge and expertise concerning Afro-American affairs who are willing to conduct independent studies (arranged through Harvard fields of concentration) with Harvard students. The Committee to be charged with encouraging instruction in Afro-American Studies (see Section II) should be given responsibility for discovering and disseminating such information...
...many functions of a student center would be that of providing opportunities for greater contact between black undergraduates and black graduate students. Without question one of the major problems for the black undergraduate is the lack of older blacks available as advisors. There is a special need felt for more black advisors available to black students in their freshman year, but the availability of such advisors is by no means a total solution...
There is a need for more black students serving as tutors in the Bureau of Study Counsel, and for some means--a published directory--for indicating, for the benefit of undergraduates, the special interests and talents of black graduate students. What is needed generally is more blacks serving throughout the University in positions of responsibility and authority, as members of the Administration as well as of the teaching Faculty. We specifically urge the Dean to make, in the immediate future, an appropriate appointment to a high-level administrative position...
...positions of authority and responsibility within the University. And we have underscored, as of primary importance to the black student, an enrichment of the Harvard curriculum and an expansion of its degree programs, to provide black students opportunities to pursue studies and research in their areas of special concern...