Word: afro
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During his term, the soft-spoken and well-liked President raised a record $2.6 billion for the University. He also is credited with building Harvard’s Afro-American studies department and advocating diversity...
...Anthony Appiah, a leading member of the Afro-American studies department, turns in his resignation to University officials and announces he will leave Harvard for Princeton next fall, raising concerns that other stars of the department will follow his lead. Appiah cites personal reasons for his departure...
President Summers meets with Fletcher University Professor Cornel West ’74 in an attempt to keep the prominent Afro-American studies professor from leaving Harvard and returning to Princeton. West’s allegation that Summers questioned his scholarship at an October meeting makes national news...
...years ago, Harvard demonstrated what it can do when it throws itself into a new intellectual field. Under University President Neil L. Rudenstine, the Afro-American studies department grew from a single white professor to the “Dream Team,” a collection of the nation’s best black scholars. Even today, few schools have made a serious effort to develop programs in black studies...
Whatever his plans had been for community relations, his first few months at Harvard proved to be full of high-profile public relations fiascoes, from grade inflation to departures from the Afro-American studies department...