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...Diversity] is essential if we’re to carry out our mission of excellence in teaching and scholarship,” he says...
...pursue time-and labor-intensive projects, to work with colleagues in universities across the world and, sometimes, simply to revitalize themselves after years of service. While professors have a duty to pass on their knowledge to undergraduates, at a research university they are also expected to create original scholarship and publish prodigiously. These duties need not be mutually exclusive, and with proper planning, departments should be able to accommodate both professors and students...
...positive steps that Harvard has taken in embracing blacks, Harvard attitudes about blacks have and still do raise serious questions. Harvard’s “position” on diversity has not erased the school’s track record as a source of white-supremacist scholarship throughout the centuries and down to the present day. Many of us have been to Agassiz Theater without knowing that Louis Agassiz was a professor of zoology who asserted that the education of blacks should be based on their latent inferiority, meaning that they should be trained solely in manual labor...
...have been angry at Summers for not speaking out more strongly in favor of affirmative action. West was also upset, though, because he felt personally insulted by Summers’ exhortations that he be a leader in combating grade inflation and that he embark on a work of serious scholarship rather than record...
...tenure system, of course, was created in order to foster academic freedom—in order to allow professors to publish (as West has done in the past) bold and original scholarship without worrying whether it will be immediately accepted. The system was not created so that professors with tenure would have free license to effectively switch careers and produce things other than scholarship, be they music, drawings or lawn-chairs. West’s job—the one that Harvard hired him for and pays him a large salary to perform—is to write scholarly books...