Word: african
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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William Carmichael, head of the Ford Foundation Office for the Middle East and Africa, said yesterday, however, that the Ford Foundation and the Institute for International Education (IIE), two groups represented at the meeting, discussed a scholarship program with Bishop Desmond Tutu, secretary-general of the South African Council of Churches...
Hilda Mortimer, consultant in the South African education program for IIE, said yesterday it is important that American colleges have a well-coordinated program, so each is not functioning through separate channels...
...South African government has given no response to the proposed program, Stevens said...
...cooled-off political climate following 1971 Harvard has felt obliged to tenure only one additional black professor (Eileen Southern). And out of this total of five, Afro has been given only one and a half. In the dastardly rejection of the eminently qualified and world-renowned African scholar E. Isaacs, who taught for six years (including half of all students taking Afro courses in 1971), the Harvard administration acted in racist and discriminatory fashion. But it also cut itself off from a pool of tenure track teaching fellows numbering more than a dozen who were hired by Dr. Isaacs...
With less than a month before Young's resignation as ambassador takes effect, he discussed his role in government during his current African tour to promote U.S. trade with that continent...