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Afro-American Studies-What's Going On Here?

A History in Documents of the Rosovsky Report, The Afro Protest, and the Space in Between

D. The committee will seek out and sponsor programs with a community orientation. For example, tutorials should be supplemented or replaced by relevant field community activity.

II. The Afro-American Studies Committee will, by the terms of the Rosovsky Report, be able to hire its own instructors.

III. The Afro-American Studies Committee will have an independent budget.

IV. The temporary governing board will be replaced by a permanent board through a department-wide referendum early in the academic year 1969-1970. This governing board will be the means of inter-departmental communication as well as the policy committee of the department.

A. The powers of this committee cannot be detailed until the temporary governing board meets with the head of the department. The governing board will, however:

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a. appoint the review committee for consideration of any faculty member in the department for tenure

b. work in the area of curricula reforms

c. be able to make all tenure hearings a matter of public record. These transcripts will be deleted of all embarrassing personal details.

B. The structure of the governing board will be;

a. a set number of black students elected by the black students on campus

b. a set number of concentrators in the field.

c. a set number of tenured and untenured faculty members.

d. chaired by the head of the department.

e. elected in a department-wide, referendum on a regularized basis.

(On April 17, at the Faculty's third emergency meeting, two black students cames to present Afro's view. The first--Jeffrey Howard '69, told the Faculty that Afro came in a spirit of cooperation, but that it insisted on a more adequate role in the governing of the Afro-American Studies department. The second--Wesley Profit '69--read the Faculty a resolution essentially the same as the one handed out two days earlier. The only differences were in the numbering system for the various sections, and in some of the phraseology: "demand" was shifted to "should be" in several places, for instance.

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