University of California, Santa Barbara:
Elected officials tend to be highly educated, but there are some significant differences among politicians of color: 87 percent of Asian elected officials have at least a college degree, compared to 63 percent of Black and 46 percent of Hispanic and American Indian officials. That finding comes from “The Gender and Multicultural Leadership Project,” the most comprehensive multi-office national survey of Black, Hispanic, Asian and American Indian elected officials conducted by political scientists from UCSB, the University of New Mexico, the University of Massachusetts and the University of Notre Dame. For more survey findings, visit www.gmcl.org/.
University of San Francisco:
The university’s four-year-old architecture major is among the fastest growing on campus. According to USF, the architecture program has carved out a niche as a program that “puts architecture to work for social change.” Over the summer students spent three weeks in León, Mexico, where several illegal settlements with, for example, no running water have taken root on the outskirts of town. Working jointly with architecture students from the Jesuit Universidad Iberoamericana León, the students presented 10-year urban development plans to faculty, community members and city officials, devising a plan for a functional community, complete with permanent housing, businesses and an expanded school and health clinic. Students are continuing to work on the project with their Ibero León counterparts.
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