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...Henry Louis] ‘Skip’ Gates and other remaining [Af-Am] department members, as well as President Summers, have spoken out about how important Afro-American Studies is to Harvard,” Fitzsimmons said. “There would be questions that would come up [on admissions recruitment trips], but those gave us another opportunity to talk about what a great place Harvard...
...like to make sure the integrity of the process by which the most excellent scholars of Af-Am are selected is preserved and supported,” Matory said...
With 686 students, Moral Reasoning 22: “Justice,” replaced Af-Am 10 as the College’s second most popular course...
...have to have someone who is an activist—it makes the Af-Am department look legitimate, especially for black communities,” says Afro-American studies concentrator Harrel Conner ’02. “I don’t think you can write about it from a pedestal...In order to be a scholar on a topic you have to live the life, because it changes...
Perhaps? The Afro-American studies department has been rated the best in the country and is one of the shining jewels in Harvard’s academic crown. The “dream team” of Af-Am professors added both to Harvard’s prestige and to its ability to attract the best and brightest to work and study here. Yet even before the recent controversies surrounding Summers’s dispute with Fletcher University Professor Cornel R. West ’74, there was concern about his commitment to diversity from among several senior faculty members...