Nov. 3, 2015A new $50 million initiative to attract more diverse faculty across all of Yale’s schools is announced.
Sept. 2015Prof. Elizabeth Alexander (English) and Vanessa Agard-Jones (WGSS) announce they will leave Yale for Columbia.
Nov. 13, 2015Next Yale publishes its demands for President Salovey, which include promoting ER&M to Departmental status and creating various ethnic studies programs under that department.
Nov. 4, 2015Prof. Karen Nakamura (Anthropology and East Asian Studies) and Jafari Allen (Af-Am and WGSS) announce they will leave Yale.
1998Yale officially offers a major in Ethnicity, Race, and Migration.
2009Several faculty members begin informal talks about a potential center to include American Studies, WGSS, and Af-Am Studies. 1991The First Report of the President’s Committee to Monitor the Recruitment and Retention of Disabled, Minority, and Women Faculty finds faculty diversity seriously lacking.
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How Yale’s new interdisciplinary center fits in
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n November, Next Yale presented a list of demands to President Peter Salovey to address issues of racial inequality and marginalization on campus. The group asked for changes to many aspects of the university, from financial aid to cultural houses. A major point on their agenda was a new academic focus on ethnic studies. Last week, Yale announced the founding of the new Center for the Study of Race, Indigeneity, and Transnational Migration. But this new center was not created and will not exist in a vacuum. The new initiative comes from Yale’s fraught history with ethnic studies and faculty diversity and will take its place among other related but separate research centers working to expand academic work on race and ethnicity.
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