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...West??s decision came as a surprise to black student leaders on campus...
...West??s departure strikes a blow to Harvard’s Afro-American studies department, which in the past decade was transformed from a department with only one tenured professor—who was white—to a self-proclaimed “dream team” of scholars, widely considered the top black studies program in the nation...
...Cornel West??s recruitment to Harvard was crucial in establishing the department’s place of leadership in the field of Afro-American studies,” Gates, chair of the Afro-American studies department, said in his statement...
According to West??s account, Summers rebuked him for focusing more on outside activities—like recording a spoken-word CD and working on political campaigns—than on his scholarship...
...statement released Friday afternoon, Summers said West??s departure will be a loss to Harvard...