The University was wrong to appoint Prof. Grant Farred as chair of Africana's faculty search committee. His appointment reignited student concerns over his controversial comments last year and could prove harmful to the search for prospective faculty.

The Student Assembly passed a resolution Thursday asking administrators to “formally reevaluate” its contentious appointment of Prof. Grant Farred, Africana studies and English, as chair of Africana’s faculty search committee.

Controversy over allegedly sexist remarks made by Prof. Grant Farred, Africana and English, was reignited this week after he was appointed to chair the department’s faculty search committee.

Forty-two years after the takeover of Willard Straight Hall, opponents of the proposed administrative restructuring of the Africana Center say Day Hall has still not learned to listen to Cornell’s African-American community.

In contrast to their white peers, Cornell’s minority professors are significantly less satisfied with their jobs than they were a few years ago.

The University has made a major announcement three times over the past four academic breaks, raising questions about its commitment to student and faculty feedback in major decisions.

Gathering outside Statler Hall, where the Board of Trustees was meeting, students protested the administrative decisioin to fold Africana into the College of Arts and Sciences on Friday.

The American Indian Program may move from its home in Caldwell Hall to various rooms in Kennedy Hall, according to a recent administrative proposal from the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences.

Sun Associate Editor Tony Manfred '11 examines the rhetoric used in the Africana debate by both the protestors and the commentators. 

Director of Africana Research and Studies Center Prof. Robert Harris Jr. rescinded his resignation Friday as he led a group of 80 to 100 students and faculty in a march on Day Hall in protest of Provost Kent Fuchs’s decision, announced Wednesday, to fold the Africana Center into the College of Arts and Sciences.