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Harvard's Afro-Am Department, which has only two tenured faculty members and two junior professors, has had difficulty attracting outside scholars and retaining its junior faculty in recent years...
...department has not made a senior level appointment since Werner Sollors, the department's chair, was tenured in 1983. Arnold Rampersad, another Afro Am literary expert, declined an offer from the University earlier this year...
McKay's rejection represents an unexpected setback for the department, whose administrators had billed the tenure offer as part of an effort to reinvigorate Afro-Am here...
McKay could not be reached for comment this week. But the chair of Wisconsin's Afro-American studies department said that the state school had offered her a package including pay increases, leave time and research assistants to convince her to stay at Wisconsin...
...broader issue is a need for Black scholars and for people who are doing work in the area of Afro-American studies," said Grant. "I guess I don't look at it as a win or a loss. I'm just glad Nellie stayed here...