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Just two weeks ago, the program's chair, Hazel V. Carby, resigned, saying Yale President Richard Levin had disparaged the program by comparing it unfavorably with Harvard's Afro-American studies department. She also said Yale's refusal to recognize the program as a department was a factor in her decision to resign...
...last night, following a meeting Levin and other Yale officials, Carby changed her mind...
Carby tendered her resignation last week to protest comments made by Yale President Richard Levin at a Feb. 4 ceremony honoring Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Gates, a Yale graduate, is now DuBois professor of the humanities at Harvard...
...ceremony, Levin said Yale was "a little jealous" watching the "extraordinary" success of the Harvard Afro-American studies concentration. Gates, who arrived at Harvard in 1991, has been instrumental in luring top-name scholars in Afro-American studies to Cambridge...
Carby said Levin's remarks indicated his lack of support for Yale's program, which does not have the status or funding of a full-fledged academic department...