Word: afro
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...Summers seems to be on track for smoothing tensions, and some members of the Afro-American Studies department are downplaying the seriousness of the conflict...
With a department teetering on the verge of revolt and national figures joining the fray, the controversy over Afro-American studies threatens to snowball into a more broadly based criticism of Summers’ tenure as president...
There are signs that Summers still has a chance to escape disaster. As time passes, rhetoric softens, and the odds that the Afro-American studies professors will actually leave dwindles. Less clear, though, are the lessons Summers takes away from this very public battle...
Though Summers won’t comment specifically on the source of ongoing conflict with Fletcher University Professor Cornel R. West ’74 and other members of the Afro-American studies department, he continues to repeat its root is a “misunderstanding...
...current controversy centers on a number of private meetings between Summers and members of the Afro-American studies department. Summers and West met. West came out of that meeting upset...