This series contains materials relating to courses in the Department and program proposals. The arrangement is alphabetical. Course materials include descriptions, proposals for new courses, catalog entries and changes, syllabi (grouped by semester) schedules and textbook adoptions. The program proposals relate primarily to efforts in the late 1970s to establish a Master’s program in African-American studies and reflect inter-campus rivalries within the University system.

Although accessioned from the Department of Africana Studies, the materials in this series concern Dr.Daphne Harrison’s professional and scholarly activities: personal correspondence, grant proposals, papers presented, membership in scholarly organizations, and research materials. Of special interest are papers and research materials from the mid-1970s concerning black women blues singers of the 1920s, including transcripts of interviews with Sippie Wallace and Helen Humes. In 1988 Harrison published Black Pearls:Blues Queens of the 1920s.

Included here are files on colloquia and lectures sponsored by the department; search committees; correspondence and memos; enrollment statistics; faculty meetings; and program reviews and reports. Of particular interest are two files of “early documents” relating to the establishment of the program and the department. Arrangement is alphabetical.

Files pertaining to government or private organizations, primarily having some connection to Africana Studies. Arrangement is alphabetical.

Included here are both general files (e.g., policies, consultancy reports, etc.) and individual faculty files. These latter may contain CVs, reprints and clippings, course materials, correspondence. Sensitive Promotion and Tenure materials have been removed.Arrangement is alphabetical,irrespective of whether the file is general or individual faculty member.

“In order to promote excellence in the teaching of the history, culture, and literature of peoples of African descent, the University of Maryland Baltimore County has been awarded a grant by the National Endowment for the Humanities to offer a summer institute for secondary teachers.” (from a promotional brochure.) The Instituteswere held for one-month periods in the summers of 1984 and 1985. Included are files of budget materials, correspondence, promotional materials, course syllabi and handouts, information regarding field trips to museums and embassies, participant lists and the grant proposals. These files were not treated to the usually more rigorous weeding of most grant files because the totality of the documentation captures a moment in the history of Africana studies as a discipline when it was seeking to expand its presence into the high school curriculum.S

“The project is a federally financed program created to foster awareness of, and develop solutions for, the problems faced by blacks and other minorities in predominantly white institutions. The specific focus of the project is to test a training model for developing skills to reduce or eliminate institutional racism in higher education.” (The Retriever, 2/16/76, page 3.)Participants in the project were volunteers from all campus constituencies. Files include budget materials, correspondence, training materials for group sessions, background documents (clippings, articles, bibliographies), consultants(both scholars and firms), grant proposal and reports, and surveys of the racial attitudes of participants. Some of these last files, where the identity of the individual can be discerned, will be sequestered until_____.The arrangement is alphabetical.As with Series VI, this series is maintained more fully than is usual with grants, in this case becauseit offers a snapshot of a particular moment in the history of race relations both on the campus and in the country, of racial attitudes of the time, and of a particular approach to ameliorating the situation.

Files on relations with other UMBC academic departments, many relating to cooperative course ventures. Arrangement is alphabetical