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...hope he brings a lot of energy because he will need it," says Painter, an historian and acting director of the Afro-Am program at Princeton. "The problem is getting the kind of cooperation with the institution you need...
Midas touch or not, Gates has an uphill battle ahead of him. Few think Afro-Am will turn around in a day. Most observers say that it will be a minimum of four or five years before the department is on its feet again...
Some, like Princeton's Nell Irvin Painter, say they fear that Gates will be hampered by a University administration unwilling to fully sipport Afro-Am at Harvard...
...Harvard doesn't have a good track record in landing top scholars. Last year Afro-Am sought to tenure University of Wisconsin Professor Nellie Y. McKay and Princeton Religion Professors Cornel R. West '74 and Albert J. Raboteau. All three rejected Harvard's overtures...
Despite the hoopla around the possibility of a Gates appointment, some scholars are skeptical about Harvard's overall strategy for Afro-Am. Charshee Lawrence-McIntyre, a professor of English at the State University of New York at Old Westbury, says she questions the way Harvard and the nation's other top schools try to build their departments by landing one big name professor...