According to UCLA faculty statistics, 6.9 percent of women faculty members and 14.9 percent of male faculty members are Black, Asian, Hispanic or American Indian.
The CRP/El Proyecto will continue to work on national issues such as school segregation and the school dropout crisis, but will also focus on California and local policy issues. The project plans to work actively with non-English language media to reach a broader portion of the public, issuing reports in Spanish as well as English. It will maintain some staff in Cambridge, Mass., where Harvard is located, as well as in other locations.
“The move will enable us to work with the university’s centers of research and with scholars who are dedicated to civil rights action and study. We can then focus more sharply on state and national issues,” says Gándara.
The project’s work was cited by the U.S. Supreme Court in its 2003 decision upholding affirmative action in college admissions. The Civil Rights Project recently coordinated the submission of a friend-of-the-court brief signed by 553 scholars at more than 200 institutions in 42 states in support of two cases currently before the Supreme Court, which will determine the future of voluntary integration in public schools.
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