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...says. This is not a problem to which Harvard is immune. “Clearly there are people at elite universities—including Harvard—who seem to spend a lot of time on TV and publish a lot of stuff I think is not rooted in scholarship,” Thernstrom says...
...balance between their work inside the academy and their work in the public sphere. “I say no more often than I say yes,” says Tyler Professor of Constitutional Law Laurence Tribe, “principally because such activities can distract from teaching and scholarship unless one keeps them under tight control.” Tribe, who helped argue the legal case for Al Gore ’69 in the Florida recount battle and has been mentioned as a prospective Democratic Supreme Court nominee, says he limits himself to one major public lecture outside...
...State Department in Washington, D.C., in protest of Israel’s occupation of the West Bank. West has been criticized by some for spending too much time in the streets and not enough in the classroom. But in some fields, it is very difficult to separate activism from scholarship. In fact, the field of Afro-American studies is an ideal example of an entire discipline that lends itself to public activity. Founded during the height of the Civil Rights Movement, the field sprung from extremely activist roots. Many black studies scholars to this day believe that a central component...
...field of African-American studies enjoys a diversity of approaches, but to me the most sophisticated departments combine the principles of traditional scholarship with the commitment to expanding the world’s knowledge about the African-American community,” says DuBois Professor of the Humanities Henry Louis Gates Jr., who is chair of Harvard’s Afro-American studies department...
While most of his speech focused on the importance of transgressing the bounds of political correctness and academic scholarship to critically examine and change society, West did allude to last year’s clash with University President Lawrence H. Summers...