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In an interview with The Crimson on Tuesday, Professor Cornel R. West ’74 said Harvard changed course following public pressure and offered to consider him for tenure, but the fact that this reversal came only after external scrutiny merely solidified his decision to leave the University. West also offered previously unreported details about the tenure controversy that led him to announce his departure, saying that it was a faculty committee’s recommendation that he be considered for tenure — not his own request — that was turned down by the University. West — a Profe...

“I was concerned that we weren’t going to make it through the semester,” Grundmeier said. In December 2019, Grundmeier and his wife — University of Massachusetts professor Anne Fitzpatrick — welcomed their second child, Peter. Their five-year-old daughter, Catherine, was attending pre-kindergarten. On March 8, 2020, Grundmeier and Fitzpatrick pulled their daughter out of school due to increasing concern surrounding Covid-19. Just two days later, on March 10, Harvard announced that all classes would transition online for the remainder of the semester. In the days that followed, Harva...

Faculty of Arts and Sciences Dean Claudine Gay said in a Friday interview that Harvard is currently planning for fall 2021 with the “overriding goal” of “charting a path to a full return for our students, our faculty, and staff.” Gay said she is eager for Harvard to regain its “campus-based identity,” and she hopes fall 2021 will include “as much in-person learning as possible” for undergraduates. Gay acknowledged, however, that despite the “positive a set of trends” in regard to reduced Covid-19 spread on campus this spring, she foresees that...

In light of the threatened departure of Professor Cornel R. West ’74 from Harvard, Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences Claudine Gay said during a faculty meeting Tuesday that Harvard is “unequivocally” committed to supporting an environment in which faculty of color can thrive. West — a Professor of the Practice of Public Philosophy at the Harvard Divinity School and of African and African American Studies in the FAS — threatened in late February to leave Harvard for the second time after he said the University denied his request for consideration of tenure. In s...

School of Engineering and Applied Sciences professor Evelyn L. Hu and Physics professor John M. Doyle moved for the establishment of a new graduate program in Quantum Science and Engineering during a meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences Tuesday. The program — which would bridge several existing departments and areas in FAS and SEAS, including Chemistry, Physics, and Computer Science — would train students in speaking “a common language” relevant to practical applications of the study of subatomic particle behavior, Doyle said in an interview. Hu said in an interview...