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...West’s discussion of his dispute with Summers is particularly timely because tensions between Summers and the African and African-American Studies Department resurfaced recently when two Harvard Af-Am professors, Lawrence Bobo and his wife Marcyliena Morgan, announced they will leave Harvard at the end of the fall semester to take up tenured positions at Stanford. Their departure has been attributed by colleagues to the fact that Summers denied Morgan tenure at Harvard this past summer...
...Af-Am and VES Visiting Lecturer Elvis Mitchell—a pillar of academic gravitas—on public radio’s Weekend Edition...
...African and African American Studies Department lost two of its most distinguished professors to Princeton University. This fall, it will be losing two more of its faculty members to Stanford. The department remains at the forefront of its field, but these losses have dealt it another frustrating blow. Rebuilding Af-Am must once again become an immediate priority for the administration...
...persisting problems may also discourage students with an interest in the field. Indeed, the department has been losing more than faculty members in the last three years: The number of students concentrating in Af-Am has plummeted from 31 students in the 1999-2000 academic year to 11 this past year...
...should ensure that his administration commits substantial resources to this end, so that the Af-Am Department can hire new faculty, tenure more professors and devote closer attention to the needs of students in the field. The department merits it. The students deserve it. And the price of inaction would be much higher...