It's official

Cross posted at Political Arguments.

Isn't it? Well, Brian Leiter says so:

Robert Gooding-Williams (African-American philosophy and political thought, Continental philosophy) at Northwestern University has accepted a senior offer from the Department of Political Science at the University of Chicago, to start January 1, 2006. His is the fourth senior departure for the Northwestern department in the past several months (the others are: Terry Pinkard back to Georgetown; Thomas Ricketts to Pittsburgh; and Charles Travis to King's College, London).