Afro Tenure Process Will Be Completed After Graduation

President Bok said Saturday that the ad hoc committee he convened May 29 to recommend candidates for tenure in Afro-American Studies will not make any final recommendations until after Commencement.

"I don't think all the names and information will be processed for at least a few weeks," Bok said.

Three Candidates Discussed

An ad hoc committee, which must act on all Faculty appointments before sending them to Bok and the governing boards for final approval, met May 29 to discuss three candidates for tenure in Afro. The department currently has only one tenured professor. Ewart Guinier '33 chairman of the department.

The committee considered two candidates for joint appointment in Afro and another department--Eileen Southern. lecturer on Afro-American Studies, and William A. Shack, professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley--and only Ephraim Isaac, associate professor of Afro-American Studies, for full appointment in Afro, sources close to the committee said Saturday.

The Music and Anthropology Departments nominated Southern and Shack respectively, but Isaac was nominated jointly by Rosovsky and Guinier the sources said.

All nominations except for the Isaac one were sent to the ad hoc committee by a special subcommittee of the Faculty Council set up in October of this academic year to process all candidates nominated by a specific department for joint tenure in that department and Afro.

No Afro Review

Guinier has refused to recognize the legitimacy of the Faculty Council subcommittee, because it does not allow Afro to review the names of all candidates nominated by other departments for a joint position, though the other departments can review all nominations for joint positions made by Afro, and because he feels Afro should make the nominations--like other departments do--for its own tenured positions.

B. Irven DeVore, professor of Anthropology and chairman of the faculty council subcommittee, said Saturday he expects the ad hoc committee to recommend at least one of the three candidates for tenure. "It is quite likely that a tenure appointment will result for the committee, knowing the quality of the candidates," he said.

If a tenure appointment in Afro is made by the ad hoc committee it is expected that person will become chairman of the Afro Department second semester next year when Guinier becomes 66, the mandatory retirements age for department chairman