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...phenomenon be addressed? How do we deal with the loss of many professors of color from the faculty, such as Michael Jones-Correa in the Department of Government, Allan Callahan at Harvard Divinity School, Eileen de los Reyes at Graduate School of Education and K. Anthony Appiah in the Afro-American Studies and Philosophy Departments, who left to more accepting and appreciative environments within the past year? Rather than endeavoring to transcend the color line, the recent incident between University President Lawrence H. Summers and West has accentuated a practice of unfair treatment at Harvard...
...support for Latino and Latin American studies through concrete acts leading to a degree-granting program, additional courses, tenured faculty, increased student recruitment and research support. Whereas Summers shared a generic objection to having particular groups teach their own ethnic groups, he was then asked about his support for Afro-American Studies. “My feelings about African American Studies has been that it is so central to the Civil War,” responded the president who added, “perhaps it warranted a separate department.” Sensing a lack of support for fields based...
...president reiterated his resistance and suggested that Afro-American and regional studies were exceptions rather than the rule at Harvard. All the more telling is the fact that Summers had his feet up on the table as he tossed a ball back and forth between his hands while meeting with students. Following our request for a written response and a town hall meeting, Summers responded that we would get the same response he had already given us without even having read the letter. Only after articles were printed in The Harvard Crimson, the Boston Globe and other media sources...
...Harvard and elsewhere to promote ever greater opportunity for all.” In his letter to students, Summers writes, “Let me reaffirm my admiration for the major strides that Harvard has made over the past decade in African-American studies. The members of our Afro-Am Department, individually and collectively, have done much to enhance education and scholarship at Harvard, and I look forward to helping sustain Harvard’s strength in this area in the time ahead.” President Summers, the time for action...
...midst of a battle over the celebrated Afro-American studies professor—who is mulling over a move to Princeton University—Harvard’s rival got ahead of itself...