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...issue of Latino studies at Harvard received national attention when a Boston Globe article tied slow progress on a Latino studies center to University President Lawrence H. Summers’ conflict with the Afro-American Studies department. Professors said the Afro-American Studies media scandal led them to question Summers’ commitment to seriously considering the proposed Latino studies center...
Summers enraged members of the Afro-American Studies department by meeting with West and reportedly criticizing the professor for his outside activities, including working on the committee of Sharpton, who is considering running for the Democratic nomination in 2004. Although he refused to comment on the content of his meeting with West, Summers denied chastising any professor for the use of his time away from Harvard...
...this reason, it seems a pity when even one is lost, but a whole department’s worth of them leaving would be nothing short of catastrophic. According to recent printed reports, Harvard faces just this possibility. Apparently, University President Lawrence H. Summers and the Department of Afro-American Studies are at such odds, politically, academically and ideologically, that some of the leading professors in the department are seriously considering job offers from top universities nationwide. How could anyone let this happen...
...diversity and affirmative action, the release of a “rap” CD by Fletcher University Professor Cornel R. West ’74, West’s affiliation with the Rev. Al Sharpton’s presidential run, grade inflation in West’s course Afro-American Studies 10: “Introduction to African-American Studies” and the nonacademic nature of books published by members of the Afro-American studies department...
...doesn’t stand for “hopeless.” The situation with the professors of the Afro-American studies department can still be rectified. Ours is a community that prides itself on its “liberal” views and multiple avenues for dialogue. Let us practice what we preach. We entreat both parties to continue working to close what is now known simply as “the rift...