March 16, 1970
Faculty vote on black studies department
Proposed as a replacement for the interdepartmental major created in the Spring of 1969, a new African-American Studies Department was approved by faculty vote. The department would be closely joined with equivalent departments in the five colleges, reflecting the unity of the five college action staged at Amherst that February, from which the proposal for a Five College Black Studies Program had been generated. Appointed for the direction of the program was the Five College Executive Committee, composed of the Black Studies departmental chair and one student from each college.
Faculty votes on black studies department: 5-college cooperation stressed
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