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More recently, Selwyn R. Cudjoe, assistant professor of Afro-American Studies and an expert in Caribbean literature, was denied promotion to associate professor despite recommendations from both academics in his field and students. The executive committee solicited outside advice before reaching a verdict on Cudjoe's status--not normally done in non-tenure cases--and committee member Richard B. Freeman, professor of Economics, said in late July that the committee had tried to be "as fair as possible" in its deliberations...
More recently, Selwyn R. Cudjoe, assistant professor of Afro-American Studies and an expert in Caribbean literature, was denied promotion to associate professor despite recommendations from both academics in his field and students. The executive committee solicited outside advice before reaching a verdict on Cudjoe's status--not normally done in non-tenure cases--and committee member Richard B. Freeman, professor of Economics, said in late July that the committee had tried to be "as fair as possible" in its deliberations...
...executive committee also discussed hiring a visiting professor because Chidi Ikonne and Selwyn Cudjoe, assistant professors of Afro-Am, are taking leaves of absence next year, Orlando Patterson, another committee member, said yesterday...
Another problem Huggins may have to face is a shortage of faculty within the department. In addition to Guinier's retirement, Chidi Ikonne and Selwyn Cudjoe, assistant professors of Afro-Am. will be taking leaves of absence next year. Both men taught sizeable course loads this year...
Perhaps it is part of the famous narcissism of the '70s, but Americans forget how violent and depraved other cultures have been. There is something hilarious, in a grisly way, about George Augustus Selwyn, the late 18th century London society figure and algolagnic whose morbid interest in human suffering sent him scurrying over to Paris whenever a good execution was scheduled. Americans may have displayed an unwholesome interest in the departure of Gary Gilmore two years ago, but that was nothing compared with the macabre fascinations, the public hangings, the Schadenfreud of other centuries. In the 17th century, Londoners...