Esperanza Spalding to leave Harvard, citing different priorities over curriculum

The Grammy-winning jazz musician has been a professor of the practice in the Music Department since 2017.

Five-time Grammy award-winning jazz musician Esperanza Spalding, a professor of the practice in Harvard’s Music Department, is set to depart the ivy league university, citing different priorities over the curriculum.

Spalding sent an email to department affiliates last week in which she explained that she is leaving the university because, “Sadly, what I aspire to cultivate and activate in organized learning spaces is not (yet) aligned with Harvard’s priorities,” she wrote, according to today! 

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