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...accepted tenure offers this year, ten will join the Faculty in the fall, while the others will arrive in 1994. New senior faculty, including some professors who accepted offers during the 1991-92 academic year, will assume their posts in the Government, East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Afro-American Studies, Music and Fine Arts departments, among others...
...concentrator in Afro-American Studies and Sociology, received a grant to begin a Youth Leadership Development Program for Korean-American children in Los Angeles...
...moving forward," he adds. "The Afro-American Studies Department provides a challenging model for us to move forward, through encouraging and supporting gay and lesbian research and scholarship...
With his full-blown Afro, close-fitting three-piece suits and fondness for rap music, Cornel West comes across as too hip to be a philosopher. That helps explain why people are always confusing him with someone considerably less highbrow, especially when he's not on campus...
...director of Afro-American studies at Princeton since 1988, West has nurtured what even its rivals concede is the best program of its kind in the nation. Significantly, the university, where West got his doctorate, is within broadcast range of New York City's WBLS-FM, West's favorite soul-music station. The department includes Pulitzer-prizewinning novelist Toni Morrison and biographer Arnold Rampersad...