Gates denied Friday that Levin has ever offered him a job.
"The idea that anyone has ever made me an offer to go back to Yale is
ridiculous. It's just a rumor, it's
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just not true," he said.
Vera Kutzinski, a professor of American studies and of English at Yale, said she and other faculty members will try to pressure Carby to reconsider her decision to leave.
Gates, who is a longtime friend of Levin's, said that his own perceptions of what African American studies should be were shaped by his Yale days. Now, he says, "as an outsider, I think that the administration is very supportive of African American studies," he said.
He said he urged Carby to reconsider her decision.
"She's a wonderful scholar," Gates said.
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