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Cornel West is rejoining the faculty of Union Theological Seminary, where he started his teaching career more than 40 years ago.

The move comes after West threatened to leave Harvard University, which he said denied his request to be considered for tenure, according to media reports.

West has been granted the Dietrich Bonhoeffer Chair at Union, named in honor of the German theologian who attended the seminary in 1930, the seminary said in a statement on March 8.

Candace M. Lewis has been named president-dean of Gammon Theological Seminary in Atlan­ta, the first woman to serve in that role in the school’s 138-year history.

Lewis, an or­dained elder in the Florida Conference of the United Meth­odist Church, most recently served as executive director of the denomination’s national re­source for church planters. Previously, she was a district superintendent in the Florida Conference and the founding pastor of New Life Community United Meth­odist Church in Jacksonville, Florida.