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They accused Brooklyn College of overlooking his scholarship and teaching ability and judging him on a subjective standard of “collegiality,” a criterion for evaluating professors that does not appear in CUNY’s written guidelines...
...mail to the rest of the committee last winter, Johnson cited what he called “grave problems” with one of the two women on that short list. He called her teaching evaluations unsatisfactory and her scholarship inadequate...
Harvard is greater than any one person. Nevertheless, there are certain people whose scholarship, leadership and gravitas make the academic community immeasurably richer by their presence. DuBois Professor of the Humanities Henry Louis “Skip” Gates is one of those people. Gates has been a leader both for the Department of Afro-American Studies and for the undergraduates whom he has mentored. His interaction with students has often been at the personal level, and here we address him directly in the hopes that, when he decides in early December which path his academic future will take...
Nevertheless, your students need you here. The Department of Afro-American Studies has been your masterwork at Harvard, and it would be seriously damaged if you left. Your scholarship has been an inspiration both to your students and your colleagues. The work you have done for the last decade in bringing the best scholars from across the country to Harvard is truly amazing...
...first that sounds nonsensical. Harvard is a world center of scholarship and its students should surely be the best and the brightest. Which is indeed true, if one acknowledges that “the best” students and “the brightest” ones are not the same, and are often far from similar. With their ability to good-humoredly juggle their multitude of commitments, a great number of athletes fall into the former category; with their grim resolve to crack their books as their overwhelming top priority, many Harvard students fit the latter classification...