Word: yale
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...There were times when an individual came up for tenure and the two sponsoring departments would not agree," said Henry L. Gates, a literary scholar who left the Yale program in 1985 for Cornell's Africana Studies and Research Center. Gates is one of three Afro-American Studies professors who have left Yale since...
...right for a department to charter its own course is very important, and until Yale changes, I don't think it will be able to realize its full potential," Gates said...
...would say that Yale had the best program in the early 80's when I first got there," said Anthony Appiah, a philosophy professor who left Yale for Cornell shortly after Gates. "By the time I left, however, it didn't have the same exciting, interdisciplinary atmosphere it [once...
Edmund Gordon, the chair of Yale's Afro-American Studies program, said that administrators at Yale are considering the possibility of granting his program departmental status...
Gordon added that Yale has become a target for "faculty raids" by other universities because of its strong reputation in the field...