Word: cornell
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...correct attempt to pacify those who saw Summers and his thoughts on "innate differences" as a representation of the unapologetic Old Boy’s Club mentality that supposedly pervades the campus. If a black president is selected, it would only be in retaliation for Summers’ running Cornel West out of town and setting in motion the steady exodus of many of the remaining big names from our African and African American Studies department. Should our next president have a clear affinity for the humanities, the selection will have been made for no other reason than to smooth...
...best things that happened was that he put undergraduate teaching on the front burner,” Merck says. The president feuded with some faculty members—most publicly, African-American studies scholar Cornel R. West ’74, over what Summers saw as an insufficient emphasis on teaching students at the College...
...energy, projects, and ideas that he’s contributed here seem to indicate that it’s a long-term commitment,” Grant said.Bobo and Morgan were two in a series of departures from Harvard’s Af-Am department after religious studies scholar Cornel R. West ’74 left for Princeton following a much-publicized dispute with Summers in 2002. The department’s longtime chair, Henry Louis “Skip” Gates Jr., built a “Dream Team” of Af-Am scholars...
...eloquently about the importance of asking why things are the way they are. He quoted Socrates (“the unexamined life is not worth living”) and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., who he said had the greatest influence on his life. Then he introduced Princeton professor Cornel R. West...
...Bois Institute.Cornel R. West ’74, who left Harvard for Princeton University after a much publicized squabble with former University President Lawrence H. Summers, was the previous occupant of the Fletcher chair.“It makes it even more special that my dear friend Cornel West was the first incumbent of this professorship,” said Gates, who has been honored with a National Humanities Medal and a MacArthur Fellowship.Last week, Af-Am Chair Evelynn Brooks Higginbotham informed the departmental faculty that West will not be returning to Harvard, a long-discussed rumor...