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...other professors, both in the sociology and Af-Am departments, expressed disappointment with the manner in which Bobo’s and Morgan’s situation was handled...
W.E.B. DuBois Professor of the Humanities and Af-Am Department Chair Henry Louis “Skip” Gates, Jr., said that he was disappointed that Morgan was not granted tenure and that she and Bobo will be leaving Harvard...
...professors in the Af-Am and sociology departments said the couple’s departure turned more on what Harvard did not offer the couple than what Stanford and the state of California...
Dawson also said that this affair will undermine the Af-Am department’s ability to retain faculty members and bring in new ones. He said it will be difficult to recruit new professors because “there is a perception outside the University that Harvard is not as welcoming to African American studies as it was in the past...
...Democracy Matters: Winning the Fight Against Imperialism, published this year, West recalls the clash and accuses Summers of not showing enough regard for the Af-Am department. He writes of rumors he heard that Summers “had reputedly made remarks about putting the famous Afro-American Studies Department in its place” and “had held meetings with department heads and deliberately skipped over the Afro-American Studies head, Professor Gates...