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Summers meets with Fletcher University Professor Cornel R. West ’74 in an effort to mend a rift that threatens to send the prominent member of the Afro-American studies department to Princeton. West’s allegation that Summers questioned his scholarship at an October meeting makes national news...
...that meeting, West alleges, Summers chastised him for focusing too much time and energy on political campaigns and recording spoken word albums—and not enough on the traditional modes of scholarship...
...Gates defends his department’s approach by citing the role scholarship can play in correcting injustices...
...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,” he says...
Then again, with his emphasis on standards and the aggressive evaluation of the quality of Harvard’s scholarship and teaching in general, Summers is unlikely to give a blank check to any department...