Word: pettigrew
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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After 23 years on the Faculty, Thomas F. Pettigrew, former professor of Psychology and Social Relations, decided last June he was tired of disputing with his Harvard colleagues and of slogging through the mud and slush of Cambridge...
...Some people may think I left just for the weather and the good life, but the overriding factors were definitely the intellectual attractions here at Santa Cruz," Pettigrew says...
...social psychologist specializing in American race relations, Pettigrew explains that he left Harvard largely because tensions between specialists in social psychology and psychology had built steadily since the Social Relations and Psychology Departments merged...
...fact, several of Pettigrew's close colleagues and former students from Harvard's are now at Santa Cruz. "Harvard was very good to me," he says, "but life here is much easier--there are no attacks upon us. I got tired of academic fights...
...Pettigrew first saw the advantages he would have at the University of California when he taught two courses there in 1979-80 during a leave of absence from Harvard. Those advantages include better computer facilities, more graduate students, and California's "prosperous and stimulating" atmosphere, he says...