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Inclusive Scholarship: Developing Black Studies in the United States 185 partment’s original concentration on arts and humanities has continued throughout its existence. Although the departmental core faculty includes an historian, an historical specialist in Education, and a criminologist, 75 percent of the faculty concentrates on research in the arts and humanities. These fields include three faculty members in Ethnomusicology, two in Afro-American Folklore, two in Creative Writing and African American Literature, and one in Dance Composition. Moreover, the department also founded and controls several humanities archives. The Black Film Center Archive, founded in 1981,“holds a collection of [6,000] films and related materials by and about Blacks,” the Archives of African American Music and Culture, founded in 1991 and directed by Portia Maultsby,includes audio and video recording,photographs, original scores and oral histories, etc. 12 These archives are unique and very important, but the information revolution generated by computers and the World Wide Web pose interesting questions regarding whether and how the department may want to consider making these materials more easily accessible to scholars in the future. Faculty members are also involved in the direction of the African American Choral Ensemble, the African American Dance Company, and the IU Soul Revue. These performing groups are not extracurricular activities; they generate course enrollments. During the 1980s, the department’s enrollments increased dramatically from eleven hundred students per year in 1982 (which had been the standard since 1972) to fifteen hundred in 1986, and rose above two thousand in 1990. In 1985 the department had fifteen majors, but the numbers exceeded one hundred in the early 1990s. Enrollments and majors increased because the major was revised to allow students to double major, to create joint majors with other disciplines (interdepartmental majors) and to minor in Afro-American Studies and other disciplines. Graduate enrollment also increased from nine students in 1981 to thirty-six in 1989. The department’s proposal for a master’s in Afro-American Studies was approved by all university committees, and by the Indiana Commission on Higher Education early in 1998. The department began advertising for student enrollments in February 1998. Eight students are currently enrolled in fall 1999. The department also offers the Ph.D. minor for students
186 Inclusive Scholarship: Developing Black Studies in the United States who are admitted to doctoral programs at the university; twelve students are currently enrolled in this program. The faculty members and the one administrator interviewed by the consultant saw the approval of the master’s program as an important step for the department, a powerful indication of its institutional stability. But the Associate Dean noted that most departments at Indiana have Ph.D. programs. In other words, the absence of a doctoral program is a serious weakness relative to other departments—even other new university programs. Nonetheless, as Professor Dean Peterson commented, “It’s my sense that Afro is here to stay.” As to issues threatening stability, the CIP noted the staffing issues likely to arise with implementation of the new master’s program; this, given the increased demands required by graduate level research and methodology and field study seminars. The report also cautioned the department about the risk of “drain[ing] already stretched resources from the existing undergraduate program.” 13 Other issues raised were the aging of the full and at least one of the associate professors, the administrative responsibilities associated with the archival projects and performance ensembles related to the department. Such programs mean that the faculty carry significant and fairly complex curricular and administrative responsibilities in addition to their research roles. As to enrollment, data generated by the university shows the department’s to be comparable to Art History, Religious Studies, and to surpass enrollments of majors in Philosophy and Comparative Literature. In the number of graduating majors, in 1997, Afro-American Studies compared favorably with Art History, Philosophy, and Religious Studies. The department could, however, enlarge its enrollment still further by targeting an increased number of minors. 14 Recommendations from IU Faculty Several faculty members mentioned plans to develop a Ph.D. program. The Chair expects to have an M.A. and Ph.D. program within ten years and a faculty of sixteen or seventeen. He feels there is urgency to developing the graduate program because their window of opportunity is closing.
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