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Review Committee Issues Study Today Calling for Afro Department's Reform

The Review Committee also recommends that Dean Dunlop converse ad hoc Faculty committees, consisting of approximately five people, to look for the three additional Faculty members. These ad hoc committees should consist of the chairman of the Afro-American Studies Department, plus two Faculty members from other disciplines.

The Review Committee suggests that Dunlop designate the chairman of these search committees.

In September 1969, the Standing Committee on Afro-American Studies--the body initially charged with developing the Afro-American Studies Department--issued a prospectus for the DuBois Research Institute calling for it to be organized in a manner similar to the Kennedy Institute of Politics. The DuBois Institute has remained in the planning stages for the past three years due to a lack of financial resources.

In order to help administer the DuBois Institute, the Review Committee urges that President Bok appoint a University wide committee in coordination with Dunlop and the chairman of the Afro-American Studies Department.

The Review Committee suggests that "the rotation of the chairmanship begin as early as practicable after one or more new appointments have been made and preferably at the end of he 1972-73 academic year."

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In a progress report issued last week, the Afro-American Studies Department wrote that it "opposes mandatory joint appointments." The Department stated that it felt that all faculty appointments in Afro-American Studies should be made by its governing body.

The progress report indicated the Department could accept "voluntary and mutually agreed-upon arrangements between Departments."

The Department in its progress report, also opposed joint concentration. It opposed taking away any of the students' power to serve on Department committees. Students now have power to vote on faculty appointments.

In an initial draft of the Department's progress report, released this summer, the Department urged that Ewart Guinier '33, the chairman of the Department, be retained for an indefinite period of time.

For the last three years, Guinier has opposed the appointment of a University-wide committee to administer the DuBois Institute. He has stated repeatedly that any effort to set up a University-wide committee violates the spirit of the Faculty legislation which created the Department. That legislation gave the executive committee the power to run the Institute.

In memoranda submitted to the Review Committee, Martin Kilson, professor of Government, Orlando Patterson, professor of Sociology, and Dean Epps urged that mandatory joint faculty appointments and joint concentrations be initiated. They did oppose student participation on the Department's committees. The recommendations of the Review Committee correspond quite cloudy to those offered last year by Azinna Nwafor, assistant professor of Afro-American Studies.

The Review Committee recommends that a general education course be developed. They also suggest that the Department should have a graduate program, "but its implementation should be deferred until the undergraduate program has achieved sufficient strength and status to sustain" such endeavor.

In order to stimulate interaction between students and scholars with an interest in Afro-American Studies here and at other universities, the Review Committee recommends that the Faculty initiate a "visiting and exchange program for students and faculty" with black colleges and others with a serious interest in the subject matter.

In a letter to President Bok accompanying the report, Wade H. McCree, the chairman of the Review Committee, said "no member agrees with every word of the text, but significantly, no one felt compelled to file a minority report."

Bok said yesterday that he had not had time to consider the report in detail. He indicated that he wasted the entire Faculty of Arts and Sciences to read the report before taking any action.

Bok appointed the Review Committee in October 1971, in accordance with the faculty legislation which created the Department. That legislation called for a review of all aspects of the program in 1971-72. The Review Committee met eight times during the last academic year, soliciting opinions from interested faculty and students inside and outside the University

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