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...West left Harvard after a bitter public dispute with Summers. That same year, Carswell Professor of Afro-American Studies and of Philosophy K. Anthony Appiah also joined him at Princeton, citing personal reasons...
...certainly thought that this would be my last academic appointment....The study of African-American studies, particularly in the social sciences, is weaker now than when I agreed to come [to Harvard],” said Dawson, who was recruited to the University before West and Appiah announced they were leaving...
Despite several promising negotiations and a healthy dialogue between Summers and Department of African and African American Studies Chair Henry Louis Gates Jr., West ended up leaving for Princeton with famed philosopher K. Anthony Appiah joining him not long after. By the end of the saga, the embattled University President was stuck with the criticism of having torn apart Harvard’s ascendant African American Studies department...
...governed by statistics. Though attrition would be problematic for any business, a university’s success in attracting people is not measurable in percentages: for it takes no more than the case study of former University professors Cornel R. West ’74 and K. Anthony Appiah to show that a single Faculty member’s departure or single declined tenure offer can dilapidate an entire department or, worse, the development of an intellectual idea. The petitions circulated by Summers’ supporters suggest that Summers requires no more than a simple majority approval rating; fit, perhaps...
...Ethics of Identity, Appiah does even more than celebrate the achievements of the liberal intellectual tradition. He adds one more...