July 13, 2007

2 Black Scholars Leave Penn; Longtime President of Financial-Aid Group Retires; Ohio U. Trustees Reappoint President

By ELIZABETH QUILL and PAUL BASKEN

DOUBLE DEPARTURE: The University of Pennsylvania is losing two prominent professors who study black community and culture.

Elijah Anderson, a sociologist known for his work examining urban inequality, is moving to Yale University, and Michael Eric Dyson, an ordained Baptist minister, author, and commentator, is taking a position at Georgetown University.

Mr. Anderson, 63, has worked at Penn for 32 years. During that time, he became known for his studies of the black experience