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...blow dealt by West’s exit was softened by Harvard’s positive reputation with regard to race relations, Slater said...
Moreover, the California Institute of Technology, Stanford’s principal private West Coast competitor, “has almost no black students whatsoever,” Slater said. CalTech’s Class of 2007 has zero black members, he said...
...according to Slater, black students may also be deterred by the lack of racial diversity among Harvard’s faculty...
...Some students may see those figures and say, ‘there are not as many professors there to mentor me,’” Slater said...
According to Slater, Harvard’s standing among blacks suffered a further setback after former Fletcher University Professor Cornel R. West ’74, a prominent scholar in what was then called the Department of Afro-American Studies, left Harvard for Princeton in 2002 following a spat with University President Lawrence H. Summers...