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...Bois Institute.Cornel R. West ’74, who left Harvard for Princeton University after a much publicized squabble with former University President Lawrence H. Summers, was the previous occupant of the Fletcher chair.“It makes it even more special that my dear friend Cornel West was the first incumbent of this professorship,” said Gates, who has been honored with a National Humanities Medal and a MacArthur Fellowship.Last week, Af-Am Chair Evelynn Brooks Higginbotham informed the departmental faculty that West will not be returning to Harvard, a long-discussed rumor...
Amidst rumors that black studies scholar Cornel R. West ’74 may return to Harvard, members of the African and African American Studies Department said yesterday that the issue has been a topic of discussion among faculty.Jayne Professor of Government and of Af-Am Jennifer L. Hochschild said last night that West’s possible homecoming had been in talks since the spring. “We’ve been talking about this on and off in the past six months...that it might come up in the fall,” she said. The department...
...Yale, 4.0 6. Princeton, 3.4 43. Harvard, 2.1 44. Brown, 2.1 63. Dartmouth, 1.7THE CRIMSON RESUSCITATES rumors of Cornel West's return to Cambridge from Princeton. Some professors in the African and African American studies department say they've been discussing it since the spring. This piece follows a Boston Globe report in June that broached the same possibility. Will the Prince pick it up soon...
...statement comes from the recommendations made by the President’s appointed committee of leading faculty which is chaired by Princeton philosopher Kwame Anthony Appiah, a former Harvard professor who has been working towards its proposal since fall 2005. Also on the committee was Princeton religion professor Cornel R. West ’74, who taught at Harvard for eight years but left in 2002 following a spat with then-University President Lawrence H. Summers.The committee suggested a plan to offer an African American studies major within five years. For the past 37 years, Princeton has offered students...
...Number of students enrolled in “Introduction to African and African American Studies” in fall 2001, the last time that Cornel R. West ’74 taught the course...