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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...
...Harvard community are grateful to Cornel West for his significant contributions to Harvard’s academic life, especially the great inspiration he provided to so many students,” the statement read. “We will miss him and I wish him every success at Princeton...
Fletcher University Professor Cornel R. West ’74 will depart Harvard for Princeton at the end of the academic year, Princeton announced this afternoon...
...Cornel West’s recruitment to Harvard was crucial in establishing the department’s place of leadership in the field of Afro-American studies,” Gates said in a statement released this afternoon. “He will be sorely missed and my colleagues and I wish him well in his new position...
Despite speculation that Fletcher University Professor Cornel R. West ’74 would decide early this week whether he will depart Harvard for Princeton at the end of the academic year, professors close to West said yesterday that the scholar has not yet made up his mind...