Word: cornel
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Gates said he has been seriously considering Princeton’s standing offer to join its faculty since last year, when a conflict between former Fletcher University Professor Cornel R. West ’74 and University President Lawrence H. Summers led Gates to question the University’s commitment to the field of African American studies...
...this particularly Sunday last spring, Cornel R. West ’74—the former Fletcher University professor who left Harvard last year for Princeton—was warning about the repercussions that could follow continued Israeli occupation of the West Bank...
...Cornel West is not an historian of the Middle East, nor is he a scholar of international relations. By training, he is a philosopher. What gives West the authority to speak on the Middle East is that he is a member of a special group of people who have been appointed—either by themselves or by the national media—to set forth their opinions and views on the pressing social issues of our time. West, some would say, is a typical example of a recently identified phenomenon: the public intellectual...
Being a public intellectual doesn’t seem to leave much time for tending to one’s scholarship—or one’s students. Though Cornel West once served as a faculty adviser to the Black Men’s Forum and taught a class that drew some of the largest crowds of any professor at Harvard, some students say he has not had as stellar a record on personal contact with students. Last fall, some reported having to sign up as far as two months in advance to get into the celebrated professor?...
Former Fletcher University Professor Cornel R. West ’74 returned yesterday for his first public appearance at Harvard since his departure for Princeton University...