From UCSB & Keck Graduate Institute
Hmmmm. Color us fascinated by the UC system's decision to grant the wonderful folks up in Santa Barbara a $1.73 million grant out of the president's office to establish a systemwide center on racial studies, an effort, as described, to develop a network of scholars to advance the study, consideration and teaching of race and ethnicity as it affects the nation and especially California. The center, which will run its own web site and will be guaranteed five years of funding, will take a thematic approach, with the first topic that starts on July 1 to be 'The Nation and Its Peoples: Citizens, Denizens and Migrants.' Well, OK, while taking absolutely no shots at the superb scholarship in beautiful Santa Barbara, it's an interesting moment to put a race and ethnic studies emphasis in the pastoral, ex-urban spot even as the folks in Westwood, for example, are marking the 40th anniversary of their pioneering ethnic studies programs, which are rooted in some of the nation's, largest most diverse and influential racial and ethnic communities. Meantime, the folks in Claremont are taking their own interesting academic step, offering a one-year certificate program to assist asipiring medical students enhance their skills before applying to med school. The school says its special approach combining science and business, with a unique emphasis on drug studies, will give students a leg up in the furious competition to get into med school.
A scholarly push to network, organize thematic UC studies on race, ethnicity
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