One insider, the school's first tenured black professor, has now set his own boat upon the tide.

One black professor has even decided to leave Cornell, in part because of the trustees' vote.

The tale was investigated and written on the premise that a black professor might indeed be inferior.

The Review had often praised black, female and Jewish professors.

The school has never had a tenured black female professor.

Dr. Cole said the same holds true in the competition for black professors.

He was the first black professor in the history of Harvard University.

The college's only black professor had recruited me off a street corner in a bad part of town.

But a tenure fight involving a black professor at the law school now threatens to undermine the institution's efforts.

The publicity affects the college; during a previous incident involving a black professor, applications were down more than 15 percent.