From: Anselmo Villanueva [mailto:anselmo.villanueva@gmail.com]
Sent: Thursday, November 17, 2011 7:30 AM
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Subject: [UWMOSAIC] Cornel West Will Leave Princeton for Union Theological
Cornel West Will Leave Princeton for Union Theological
November 17, 2011
Union Theological Seminary, in New York City, has announced that
Cornel West will be leaving his Princeton University professorship to
become a professor of philosophy and Christian practices at the
seminary. West has been a key figure in philosophy, cultural studies
and African-American studies at Princeton and, before that, at Harvard
University. Earlier in his career, he taught at Union Theological.
West told The New York Times that he was going to be taking a
significant pay cut to leave Princeton, but that he was ready for the
move because Union is "the institutional expression of my core
identity as a prophetic Christian."
Cornel West to Take a Job in New York
By LAURIE GOODSTEIN New York Times November 16, 2011
Cornel West, the peripatetic public intellectual and political
activist, plans to finish out a teaching career that has taken him
from Yale to Harvard to Princeton by moving back this coming summer to
Union Theological Seminary in the City of New York, where he began as
an assistant professor in 1977.
Dr. West, the author of 19 books, including "Race Matters," and a
ubiquitous television and radio commentator, said he was taking a
significant pay cut to become a professor of philosophy and Christian
practices at Union.
The school, where the eminent theologian Reinhold Niebuhr taught, is
also known as the birthplace of black theology. James H. Cone, a
foremost scholar in that tradition, is still on the faculty.
In an interview from Seattle, on his way to visit Occupy protesters
there, Dr. West said that his liberal politics were formed in
Progressive Baptist churches, and that Union was "the institutional
expression of my core identity as a prophetic Christian."
"I don't have that much time, and I want to be able to do precisely
what I'm called to do," Dr. West, 58, said. It will also be nice, he
said, to be within walking distance of the Apollo Theater.
Unlike his departure from Harvard in 2002 after a dispute with the
then-president, Lawrence H. Summers, Dr. West's departure from
Princeton is on good terms. He will remain an emeritus professor
there.
Princeton's president, Shirley Tilghman, said that Dr. West had helped
create "one of the world's leading centers for African-American
studies" at Princeton.
The Rev. Serene Jones, the president of Union and a former student of
Dr. West, said: "In coming here, Cornel comes to a place where his
scholarly commitments and his activism don't live in two different
worlds. As you get older, the more integrated your life is, the
healthier it feels and the less time you have to spend waking up
deciding who you're going to be that day. At Union, he just has to be
Cornel."
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