Word: afros
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
According to Gates, shortly before he left office last June, Rudenstine said that “if the only thing that he’d accomplished was the growth of Afro-American studies and the DuBois Institute and the recruitment of African-American faculty, then his tenure would have been a success...
After this year’s controversy, however, few Afro-American studies professors express such warm sentiments about Summers, though most publicly lend their support to the president...
...Afro-American studies department will now have to maintain on its own the legitimacy it’s earned over the past decade, with the presidential mandate it had under Rudenstine now gone...
...Certainly the University is very committed to the Afro-American studies department and the DuBois Institute,” Summers says...
...road ahead is a tough one, as the Afro-American studies department has lost two of its top professors—starting members of the “dream team” that Gates has assembled in his 11 years as department chair...