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Race and ethnic studies as we know it today owes its birth to activist students. Violent campus protests at San Francisco State led to the first ethnic studies program in 1968, and similar departments sprang up at universities up and down the West Coast soon afterward. Although the RES movement has lagged behind on the East Coast, it has made some substantial gains. Along with African American studies, Cornell offers majors in Asian American and Latino studies; Yale offers a major in ethnicity, race and migration; and UMass Boston features a Hispanic studies department and an Asian American institute...
...Program Coordinator Shannon A. Loscin saidthe common links between KSG students and studentsat APS, a program for students considering careersin public service, made the exchange especiallybeneficial...
Students accepted to the APS program mustintern at a local service-oriented organization orcompany, and must perform community service on aregular basis. The 60 students in the program alsohave KSG mentors who help them with resumes,college applications and academic preparation
...those days). But I should have known better, given Harvard's undergraduate population of 6,500, an Asian-American population of just under 20 percent and the popularity of many common Asian surnames--particularly those of Chinese, Korean and Vietnamese origin. So when I hit enter, the account registration program instantly informed me I was "lee39...
Still, as a former coordinator of the PBHA Mission Hill tutoring program, Redmond says the relative popularity of performing community service on campus stems not from a desire to change the world, but rather to "selfishly" fulfill psychological needs...