Daniel Patrick Moynihan is staying at Harvard. Moynihan will continue in his position as professor of Education and Urban Politics.

Moynihan reportedly had been considering an offer of a chair at Cornell University. The Cornell offer carried a combined salary and expense account of $100,000.

A Cornell spokesman yesterday refused to confirm or deny that an offer had been made to Moynihan. A report in this week's Newsweek stated that Cornell had made such a proposition, and that Moynihan had turned it down to stay at Harvard.

Contacted in New York yesterday, Moynihan said, "I am staying at Harvard and I never said I wasn't. It's always been my intention to stay here."

Blacks

When it was first thought that Moynihan was interested in the Cornell job, Charles Turner, director of the Cornell African Center, objected that the search committee for the Senior Professorship had failed to consider any qualified blacks for the post, and that Moynihan was unsympathetic to blacks. Turner was unavailable for comment yesterday.

Moynihan is said to have been unsatisfied with his position at the School of Education, where he teaches courses in urban policy. Shortly after he reportedly went to Cornell to be interviewed for the position there, Harvard's Government Department voted to invite him to offer courses under its auspices.