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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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Pride in the Halls

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

A 2022 report from the UCLA School of Law Williams Institute and the Point Foundation, an LGBTQ scholarship fund, noted that 32.6% Prior to that, GALA raised over $250,000 to endow UND LGBTQ student scholarships; two are given every year. He is the director of the PRISM (Power, Resistance & Identity in STEM Education) research lab.

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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 Howard says he’s blown away when he meets K-12 schoolteachers who have followed his career and who praise his scholarship.

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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.