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...Spellman said yesterday that the University's policy of joint-tenured appointment in the Afro department was the chief cause for his resignation. Candidates for tenure in Afro must be nominated by Afro and one other department in the University...
...letter, Spellman singled out the case of Ephraim Isaac, associate professor of Afro-American Studies, as the basis for his belief that "the administration's attitude toward our faculty varies from disrespect to contempt...
...Spellman's letter of resignationcoincided with the release of the Afro committee's report on November...
According to the letter, the experience of Isaac and other Afro colleagues led Spellman to conclude that "for me to try to have a career at Harvard would be about the same as submitting to a voluntary emasculation...
...Spellman began teaching at Harvard in the spring term of 1974, after turning down the chairmanship of the English Department at Rutgers University--Livingston...