May 3, 2002
African-American Studies Professor Heads North; Smithsonian Official Joins Academe; Director of Gene-Therapy Institute at Penn Resigns Post
BROKEN PROMISES? Dwight A. McBride took over the African-American-studies department at the University of Illinois at Chicago last summer, becoming the youngest chairman on campus. But after administrators failed to give him the financial support he thought they had promised, he looked for greener pastures.
He didn't have to go far. The 34-year-old scholar is jumping a few miles north to Evanston, where he hopes to stabilize Northwestern University's African-American-studies
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