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Inclusive Scholarship: Developing Black Studies in the United States 199 CAAS is an Organized Research Unit (ORU) under the U.C. system. It includes a number of other units across a range of academic fields in addition to Ethnic Studies. Such ORUs normally have a fifteen-year life span after which they are subject to administrative review and renewal. The Ethnic Studies centers were, however, not reviewed after their first fifteen years of operation; they will be reviewed in the fall of 2000. 21 CAAS and the other Ethnic Studies ORUs (Asian American, American Indian, and Chicano Studies) report to the Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs—currently Claudia Mitchell-Kernan, a former Director of the Center. There are also interdisciplinary degree programs (IDPs) that overlap and interact with the ORUs, but they report to a different administrative structure. The IDP known as the Afro-American Studies Program directs an undergraduate major with a required concentration in Anthropology, Economics, English, History, Philosophy, Political Science, Psychology, or Sociology and a master’s program in the same disciplines with the exception of Economics. Some students elect to double major in the undergraduate program, combining Afro-American Studies with another field. The IDP has set up a pilot coordinated degree program linking the M.A. in Afro-American Studies with the graduate program in the School of Education. A similar arrangement with the School of Law is being explored. CAAS (the ORU) reports to Vice Chancellor Mitchell-Kernan, and the Afro-American Studies Program (the IDP) reports to the Dean of the Social Sciences, Scott Waugh, in the College of Letters and Sciences, an arrangement which creates interesting tensions and challenges. The Area Studies programs have recently been shifted to the College of Letters and Sciences and will report directly to the Provost (the head of the College). Yarborough also reports that“the possibility of departmentalization is even on the table for the centers, something that would not likely have happened five years ago.” As of 2000, Mitchell-Kernan will no longer serve as Vice Chancellor but will retain her position as Dean of the Graduate Division; 22 the positions had previously been held by two different individuals. Acting Director Yarborough notes that the centers have been asked to decide where within the university infrastructure they should be located—for example, the
200 Inclusive Scholarship: Developing Black Studies in the United States Chancellor’s office (where they are presently located), the Provost’s office which heads the College of Letters and Science, or a specific division headed by a dean, such as Social Sciences or Humanities, within the College. 23 When CAAS and the other Ethnic Studies centers were originally created, there was opposition to Ethnic Studies units having departmental status so they were designated ORUs. 24 The various Ethnic Studies programs are integrated into an overarching structure, the Institute of American Cultures. Mitchell-Kernan reported that while the Institute was created in 1972, preceded by the Ethnic Studies centers in 1969, the overarching structure wasn’t fully implemented until 1976–77. The activities for all of the centers include outreach, predoctoral and predoctoral fellowships, faculty grants, programmatic activities, and conferences and symposia. 25 The centers each receive approximately half of their budget annually from University funds. The University-designed structure of an overarching institute, which houses similarly structured Ethnic Studies centers, seems to have been an especially successful one. All of the UCLA centers are nationally prominent in their respective fields, and they conduct important research and community activities and projects within the greater Los Angeles area. CAAS defines its mission in terms of five divisions: research, academic program and scholarship, publications, library, and special projects. In all of these areas, CAAS is unusually prominent. Its faculty and their research are active in the social sciences (Larry Bobo, Walter Allen, Edmond Keller, Franklin Gilliam, Robert Hill, and Brenda Stevenson among others); the humanities (Richard Yarborough, Valerie Smith, Harryette Mullen, and Jacqueline DjeDje); and the arts (musician Kenny Burrell). In addition, they are nationally and even internationally known. In fact, UCLA has been hard-pressed to hold on to faculty. Melvin L. Oliver, former Director of UCLA’s Center for the Study of Urban Poverty left to become Vice President of the Ford Foundation (1996–2004)), and is currently Dean of Social Sciences at University of California, Santa Barbara. Bobo, formerly the Tishman-Diker Professor of Sociology and of African and African American Studies at Harvard, is now the Martin Luther King, Jr. Centennial Professor at Stanford University. Marcyliena Morgan, his spouse
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