Decision to Stay at Harvard Is ‘Final,’ Gates Says
BOSTON
Dr. Henry Louis Gates put an end to a widely watched academic tug of war last month, officially announcing he would remain as head of Harvard University’s Afro-American studies department rather than follow two prominent colleagues to Princeton.
“This is for good,” Gates told The Associated Press in a telephone interview. “It’s to rest. It’s final.”
Harvard professors Dr. Cornel West and Dr. Kwame Anthony Appiah were lured away by Princeton earlier this year. West left after a dispute with new Harvard President Lawrence Summers.
