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While VES is known for flexible scheduling, professors in Af-Am, the other department in which Mitchell teaches, have allegedly been held to other expectations...
...Af-Am department famously lost former Fletcher University Professor Cornel R. West ’74 to Princeton in 2001 after, West has claimed, University President Lawrence H. Summers questioned the amount of time the scholar had devoted to political work outside the academy and the recording of a spoken-word album, Sketches of My Culture. Af-Am faculty did not reply to requests for comment for this story...
...wanted to hire someone to teach film, but we also just wanted to hire Elvis Mitchell,” the Af-Am chair told The Crimson in an interview. “There’s nobody quite like...
...some students coupled rumors circulating of a possible demotion of the Af-Am department to an interdisciplinary committee with calls for divestment as grounds for protest...
...years after the Af-Am department was formed in 1969, the University and the department conflicted over its budget and tenuring of its professors. In early April, representatives from the Black Students Association (BSA), the SASC and several other student groups bound together and called for a boycott of classes to bolster the Af-Am department...