Quincy Jones Professorship At Harvard University

Jet, May 1, 2000

QUINCY JONES PROFESSORSHIP AT HARVARD UNIVERSITY: Music legend Quincy Jones is all smiles after a new chair devoted to the study of African-American music, the Quincy Jones Professorship of African-American Music, supported by the Time Warner Endowment, was established at Harvard University. Congratulating Jones are Time Warner Chairman Gerald M.

Levin, Afro-American Studies Department Chair at Harvard Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Dean of Harvard's Faculty of Arts and Sciences Jeremy Knowles and Harvard President Neil Rudenstine. The Quincy Jones professorship is the first endowed professorship in African-American studies given to any U.S. university by a corporation. Its incumbent will hold a senior, tenured position on Harvard's faculty with a joint appointment in the departments of Afro-American Studies and Music.