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...deep and wide. From Louis Armstrong to Lauryn Hill from Marvin Gaye to Michael Jackson, the Afro-American tradition has been infused with rhythm and blues, fervor and funk. Thus it seems only appropriate that the Afro-American Studies Department has been endowed with a chair for a permanent professorship dedicated to the study of black music. We wholeheartedly welcome the new addition...
...professorship, which will be shared jointly with the music department, was endowed by the Time Warner Corporation. Time Warner is the first company to endow a permanent professorship in Afro-American studies at any American university, and its willingness to act as the flagship for this field of study is commendable...
Lawrence Lessig--a prominent expert on Internet law who advised the judge in the recent Microsoft antitrust trial--announced last week that he will leave his post as Berkman Professor of Entrepreneurial Legal Studies at Harvard Law School to accept a tenured professorship at Stanford Law School...
...seat will officially be called the Quincy Jones Professorship of African-American Music, Supported by the Time Warner Endowment. Gates said the endowment will fund a joint professorship in the Afro-American studies and music departments...
According to Gates, Time Warner CEO Gerald M. Levin agreed four years ago to sponsor a visiting professor in Afro-American studies. At last June's commencement, Levin notified Gates that he wanted to make the funding permanent as an endowed professorship...