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Gates, who served as chair of the department of African and African American studies from 1991 to 2006, earned his M.A. and Ph.D. in English literature from the University of Cambridge after completing his undergraduate studies in history summa cum laude at Yale. Gates was awarded a MacArthur Foundation "Genius Grant" in 1981 and was named one of Time magazine's "25 Most Influential Americans...
Gates, who served as chair of the department of African and African American studies from 1991 to 2006, earned his M.A. and Ph.D. in English literature from the University of Cambridge after completing his undergraduate studies in history summa cum laude at Yale. Gates was awarded a MacArthur Foundation "Genius Grant" in 1981 and was named one of Time magazine's "25 Most Influential Americans...
...connect with old friends who compare my school life to “American Pie” (the English equivalent, I suppose, of Americans who compare my home life to Hogwarts), I once again experience that insurmountable inability to ever accurately conjure an impression of life on the other side of the pond. Just as no amount of description will ever summon the myriad of associations attached to North West London, my friends at home are forever unable to truly understand such foreign concepts as proctors or sororities...
...cheap applause of the anti-immigration right couldn't win even the Iowa caucus, let alone the nomination. Instead, the GOP should support practical immigration reform that includes a path to citizenship. Republicans should differentiate themselves from the left by heating up the lukewarm American melting pot with a firm insistence on learning English and a rejection of the silly excesses of identity politics. A smart GOP would be deeply in the microloan and free-English-lessons business in immigrant communities. Illegal immigrants can't vote. Their children will...
...curricular transformation, according to some professors.English Professor Elisa New says that although her first two attempts at revising the English concentration flopped, the College’s curricular review—initiated by her husband, former University President Lawrence H. Summers—helped the reform movement within the English department gain “momentum.”The “idea that the rest of the world was reforming itself” helped convince a number of English professors that it was time to review their own requirements, New says.Music department chair Anne C. Shreffler says that...