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President Summers meets with Fletcher University Professor Cornel West ’74 in an attempt to keep the prominent Afro-American studies professor from leaving Harvard and returning to Princeton. West??€™s allegation that Summers questioned his scholarship at an October meeting makes national news...
...Harvard students in ROTC and called on the University to support the nation and not be afraid of patriotism. But a meeting with Fletcher University Professor Cornel R. West ’74 soured his promising beginning. The meeting—in which Summers reportedly raised questions about West??€™s non-academic activities and informed West that he would monitor his academic output—became a public measure of Summers’s general support for affirmative action and diversity in academia. The brouhaha attracted national media attention. Summer came under attack for his abrasive style...
...However, West??€™s departure will certainly be a blow for the Divinity School’s academic stature and to its diversity, since it now has only two black faculty members...
...West??€™s was not the only loss suffered by the department this year. Citing personal reasons, Carswell Professor of Afro-American Studies and Philosophy K. Anthony Appiah announced in January his plans to move to Princeton...
Also at the time, the Rev. Al Sharpton threatened to sue Summers for his treatment of West. Sharpton said Summers’ criticism of West??€™s extracurricular activities was an effort to prevent West from working on Sharpton’s presidential campaign. West heads Sharpton’s exploratory committee for a 2004 presidential...