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...after a dispute over the plans of theBlack Students Association (BSA) to bringcontroversial Afro-centrist speaker LeonardJeffries to campus, BSA President Zaheer R. Ali'94 charged that Epps was being used by theadministration to "keep the students in check...
Harvard responded with not only the creation of an Afro-American Studies concentration later that year, but also through a completely revamped admissions plan...
...ones he wanted to be answering. ("I didn't want to be the black math/science guy," he quips.) Instead, he enrolled in a graduate seminar with Fletcher University Professor Cornel R. West '74 as a first-year, and after dabbling in gender studies, found his place as an Afro-American studies concentrator. He will head to Stanford next year to begin a Ph.D. in social psychology...
Over the past three years, Goff says he hasfound a home within the Afro-American studiesdepartment, where he has served as a researchfellow for the affiliated DuBois Institute, andcoordinated a mentor program which pairs older andyounger students within the concentration...
...particular, Goff cites his relationshipswith West, Geyser University Professor WilliamJulius Wilson and Professor of Afro-AmericanStudies Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, as crucial toboth his personal and academic development...