Word: offerred
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...University of Wisconsin literary expert has rejected a tenure offer from Harvard's Afro-American Studies Department, marking the second time this year that an outside scholar has turned down a lifetime post from the troubled department...
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...
...department has not made a senior level appointment since Werner Sollors, the department's chair, was tenured in 1983. Arnold Rampersad, another Afro Am literary expert, declined an offer from the University earlier this year...
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...
...announced plans last year to scuttle the job-allocation system this November. But on April 13 the State Council rescinded the scheduled reform. The decision was understandable. Rather than work in state-run enterprises, which need talented help desperately, most college graduates would opt for private-sector jobs that offer more money, greater opportunities for advancement and the chance to travel abroad. But the government's about-face last April, combined with the death two days later of Hu Yaobang, the reform-minded Communist Party Chairman ousted in early 1987, contributed to the student demonstrations that culminated in the Tiananmen...