In an interview with The Crimson on Tuesday, Professor Cornel R. West â74 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 committeeâs recommendation that he be considered for tenure â not his own request â that was turned down by the University.
West â a Professor of the Practice of Public Philosophy at the Harvard Divinity School and in the Department of African and African American Studies in the Faculty of Arts of Sciences â announced Monday that he would return to Union Theological Seminary, three weeks after he publicly threatened to depart over the tenure issue. He first told the Boston Globe in February that the University had dismissed