Word: mckay
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Nellie Y. McKay, author of a well-regarded study of 20th-century writer Jean Tooter, recently decided against accepting the Harvard tenure offer--made last fall--and will continue teaching at Wisconsin, according to officials from both schools...
...accepted the post, McKay would have been the only tenured Black woman in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences...
...McKay's rejection represents an unexpected setback for the department, whose administrators had billed the tenure offer as part of an effort to reinvigorate Afro-Am here...
...McKay could not be reached for comment this week. But the chair of Wisconsin's Afro-American studies department said that the state school had offered her a package including pay increases, leave time and research assistants to convince her to stay at Wisconsin...
...course Wisconsin made a competitive offer to Nellie, and of course we would have seen [her leaving] as a severe loss," said Carl A. Grant, the department chair. He said McKay received tenure at Wisconsin after Harvard made its offer but added that her promotion "was already in the pipeline" and had nothing to do with the competition for the literary scholar...