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UCLA Alumni Couple Pledges $10 Million to Ethnic Studies Centers

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

From the very beginning, we thought the notion, the concept, the feeling about creating ethnic studies centers at that point in time would be a good thing for education, research, and teaching,” said Morgan Chu. And over the years, we saw that it was a very good thing. “It from Yale University and a law degree from Harvard University.

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A Race Scholar

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

“Growing up here, we knew about UCLA, but it seemed so far away,” he says of the institution, roughly 15 miles away from his old neighborhood, that has served as his academic home since 2001. “It Almost immediately, he encountered some resistance from educational researchers who claimed that their area of research does not focus on race.

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Pride in the Halls

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The Point Foundation was founded in 2001 and most of its early applicants were gay males whose parents refused to pay for college after they came out. He is the director of the PRISM (Power, Resistance & Identity in STEM Education) research lab.

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2022: Year in Review

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Dietra Trent, a Hampton alumna, was appointed executive director of the White House Initiative on Advanced Educational Equity, Excellence and Economic Opportunity through Historically Black Colleges and Universities. Jackson, a prolific educational researcher, is the new dean of Michigan State University’s College of Education.