Word: cornel
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Harvard has driven away another brilliant African-American professor, Fletcher University Professor Cornel R. West ’74 (Online Breaking News, “Harvard Loses West to Princeton,” April 12). The truth is that Harvard College is still a stronghold of institutionalized racism, which has reluctantly allowed some black scholars to exist in its midst. I can say that because I spent four years of my life on the campus. In the 1960s and 70s, we African-American students had to take over Harvard’s main administration building in order to persuade...
...Cornel West’s decision is indeed sad for Harvard, but over the past few years I have watched most of my favorite women professors leave with a lot less fanfare and a far smaller outcry. Where was the series of front-page stories for Juliet Schor, an internationally-known economist who was beloved by her students, when she left for Boston College last year? Seyla Benhabib, one of the top feminist theorists in the country, defected to Yale, while other important and influential women were denied tenure or elected to depart upon seeing how low their chances were...
Fletcher University Professor Cornel R. West ’74 decided to leave Harvard because of fundamental differences with University President Lawrence H. Summers about the purpose of education, one of West’s close friends and colleagues said Saturday night...
...address entitled “God, Cornel West and Latinos at Harvard: Education for Liberation,” Rudenstine Professor of Latin American Studies David L. Carrasco downplayed the personality conflict between West and Summers that media accounts have emphasized...
...know from several conversations with Cornel that he felt as if he had never been disrespected like this before in his life, and that is saying a lot given what this man has done,” Carrasco said...