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Cornel West Clashes With Harvard Administration Over Tenure Request

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Posted By: Gobbledyg00k, 2/22/2021 8:56:20 AM

Cornel West is well known for his writings, his political activism and his time teaching at prestigious institutions such as Harvard and Princeton. But like many others working in academia, West currently faces a dilemma: he would like to be considered for tenure, and his current employer — that would be Harvard University — denied his request.

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Reply 1 - Posted by: Scottyboy 2/22/2021 9:01:45 AM (No. 704595)
West is s certifiable fruitcake and shouldn’t be teaching anybody anything anywhere, but that’s not why Harvard wants to ditch him. They don’t like him because he criticized 0bama the Magnificent . . . . for all the wrong reasons of course, but nevertheless, he had the temerity to say bad things about their Messiah of Color and we just can’t have that now, can we?
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Reply 2 - Posted by: jhpeters2 2/22/2021 9:03:08 AM (No. 704596)
Based on Harvard's tradition of giving tenure to criminals, communists, killers, bombers and kooks, this West fellow must be a real piece of work.
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Reply 3 - Posted by: Heil Liberals 2/22/2021 9:03:41 AM (No. 704597)
Not Harvard! Diversity is the rule. How does it feel Professor West to know that Harvard, the bastion of Leftist indoctrination, is crawling with systemic racists?
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Reply 4 - Posted by: RussZilla 2/22/2021 9:25:21 AM (No. 704619)
I think I know the answer to the question, but I'll ask if anyway. At what point is the ridiculous amount of money enough? I'd like to have the same opportunities as a rich liberal, wouldn't you?
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Reply 5 - Posted by: Strike3 2/22/2021 9:43:07 AM (No. 704636)
I love it when they eat their own. Elizabeth Warren was not available for comment.
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Reply 6 - Posted by: Lawsy0 2/22/2021 10:14:26 AM (No. 704679)
Only two in 20 people know what tenure is. Only one of those gives a rat's azz. The only ones who care are the ones who can't achieve it.
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Reply 7 - Posted by: lakerman1 2/22/2021 12:29:34 PM (No. 704785)
As a tenured full professor, now retired, I followed West's 2002 fight with Larry Summers, who was president of Harvard at the time. Summers told West that participation in a rap song was not scholarship, and told West to get busy. West left in a snit, Princeton took him, for reasons only God could understand. Is there good scholarship in black studies at Harvard? Absolutely! Professor Gates, with his historical reviews of lave records and ancestry, is a giant scholar, making major contributions to the universe of knowledge. which is the definition of university. West, along with that Dyson dude, is a racial hustler, in my opinion, offering no advancement of knowledge.
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Reply 8 - Posted by: lakerman1 2/22/2021 12:30:08 PM (No. 704787)
oops. slave, not lave. darned keyboard.
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Reply 9 - Posted by: PostAway 2/22/2021 12:37:30 PM (No. 704793)
I don’t understand why he can’t get tenure unless it is racism. The criteria for tenure at Harvard is to teach in such a way that students leave the school dumber and much more obnoxious than when they came. West is a clown of average intellect who is full of shite so where is the problem?
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Reply 10 - Posted by: earlybird 2/22/2021 2:16:13 PM (No. 704868)
An article about almost nothing. What is Harvard’s present tenure requirement? What was the reason given for the denial? The business about diversity is rubbish. This guy roamed around teaching anywhere they’d pay him the most. Being a racialist opportunist since forever does not qualify one for tenure.
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Reply 11 - Posted by: ROLFNader 2/22/2021 3:14:44 PM (No. 704911)
Go lay down by your dish, Gatemouth!
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Reply 12 - Posted by: anniebc 2/22/2021 3:27:15 PM (No. 704926)
He can't be fired so why does he even need tenure?
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Reply 13 - Posted by: J. Arthur Brown 2/22/2021 7:02:53 PM (No. 705101)
Happy to hold their coats while Harvard and Cornell West fight.
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