You're right but you don't just give someone tenure because they have controversial views and they need protection. If (and that's a legitimate if) the content of his work is questionable (in serious ways of course), then that's a very good reason NOT to grant tenure.
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They pretty much told him to his face they want to reserve the right to cancel him. I am not a fan of tenure seeing how hard it is to remove truly terrible people, but Cornell West is the kind of person tenure was meant for.
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I've read one Cornel West book, and it was cover to cover assertions. I even agreed with some of them, but there was no escaping how poor the academic back end of it was. It needed to be about 1/3 longer just via citations.
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Huh... When I was a philosophy GTA (graduate teaching assistant) we actually studied one of his books for class..
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He was tenured at Harvard, long ago, before he left.https://www.chronicle.com/article/black-scholar-is-leaving-princeton-for-harvard/ …
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He was offered tenure in 1993. Not sure if he accepted or not. He later left Harvard, and then returned.https://www.thecrimson.com/article/1993/10/14/west-offered-tenure-in-afro-am-pthe/ …
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I read most of this thread - and it is very confusing as to WHY - some say his not publishing enough research , seems logical - but others talk about his politics- where it gets confusing - he is either not getting tenure because he “called out Obama” or because he is not white?
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"Publish or perish" was the old getting-tenure rule.
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What's odd about this story to me is that West is past what used to be Harvard's retirement age.
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