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1980s to the 1990s
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Study Commission on Black Affairs (SCOBA)
The Study Commission on Black Affairs (SCOBA) is a collective of African-American
faculty, staff and administrators who are concerned with the recruitment,
retention, and support of Black students, faculty, administrators, and
staff of SDSU. SCOBA was founded in 1985 to "develop and release
commission reports on the status of life for Black people in San Diego
State Univeristy's community." From 1989 through 1991 the group protested
the failure of affirmative action initatives under then President Thomas
Day. It issued two reports and received considerable media attention.
Image
from: Invitation card for SDSU's 1st Annual "Day of Celebration"
in honor of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., January 15, 1988.
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Photo from the early 1980s
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Dr. Shirley Weber
Shirley Weber became as a professor to SDSU while still a 23-year-old
doctoral student at UCLA. After graduating with a Ph.D. in Communications
from UCLA, Weber entered the Afro-American Studies Department, of which
she is now chair. She specialized in Movement Studies and Black Nationalism.
Dr. Weber was selected Outstanding Young Woman in America twice (in 1976
and 1981) and received the SDSU Outstanding Faculty Award three times(1981,
1988 and 1990). She also served as Vice President of the San Diego City
School Board from 1988 until 1996. For her service, Shirley Weber has
received numerous awards from a host of organizations, including the NAACP,
California Women in Government, National Council of Black Studies and
the National Women's Political Caucus. Read
more detailed biographic information.
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Ty
Canady-Worthy
In 1993, Ty Canady (now Canady-Worthy), an SDSU senior majoring in Communications,
launched AfrocenCheck, a company based in Atlanta, Georgia. AfrocenCheck
produces checks featuring members of the African-American community. "We
created these unique checks in order to cater to this untapped niche market,
to symbolize the power of the 'Black Dollar' as well as increase the awareness
of African-American heritage.", Canady-Worthy says.
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Dr. E. Walter Miles
In 1966, Walter Miles was appointed to the faculty of SDSU as an assistant
professor in political science. He was also president of the board of
the San Diego chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and
a delegate-at-large on its national board.
Photograph from
1972
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Dr. Jarita
Holbrook
Dr. Jarita Holbrook earned her M.S. degree in astronomy at SDSU in 1992.
She went on to earn her doctorate at UC-Santa Cruz, thus becoming only
the sixth African-American female to earn a doctorate in astronomy/ astrophysics.
Currently she is on the faculty at UCLA
Center for the Cultural Studies of Science, Technology, and Medicine.
Photograph from the web site Astronomers
of African Diaspora, 2001.
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Robert Fikes
Robert
Fikes is a librarian at SDSU Love Library with a specialization
in African American Studies and American History. He was the first to
document the history of African-American staff, faculty and students at
SDSU. He published the following study which served as the basis for the
exhibit "Celebrating the African-American Presence at SDSU":
Robert Fikes, Jr. African American Faculty and Staff at
San Diego State University, 1958-1998: A Brief History and Tribute. San
Diego: Study Commission on Black Affairs, California Black Faculty and
Staff Association, 1998.
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