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Inclusive Scholarship: Developing Black Studies in the United States 201 and one of the co-Principal Investigators (PIs) on the UCLA Ford grant, formerly a faculty member in the African and African American Studies at Harvard and founder of the HipHop Archives there, is currently Associate Professor of Communication and Executive Director of Stanford’s HipHop Archive. There is no reason to think that this competition will not continue. The Center has its own library that supports CAAS’s academic programs and many research projects. The CAAS Special Projects Division directs cultural and scholarly programming such as the annual Thurgood Marshall Lecture on Law and Human Rights, and coordinates increasing fundraising activity. In this latter area, the University has within the last several years designated a development staff member who works specifically with the Ethnic Studies centers to assist them in fundraising efforts. The Center has published books and monographs for at least two decades and includes several series in addition to internal and external publications that report on CAAS activities. The Ford Foundation and UCLA co-sponsored a previous CAAS project, Afro-American Studies Program for Interdisciplinary Research (ASPIR) from 1988–92. The project supported research that incorporated “a research paradigm that more fully reflected the complexities of the African-American experience.” 26 There are a number of institutional challenges that have shaped the current project and the Center. This issue takes the shape of infrastructure versus indirect costs; the very complexity and size of CAAS make it somewhat vulnerable. External support is more important in this form than in the departmental model where costs are more closely linked to faculty support. Since the faculty members in CAAS have previously been budgeted primarily in their departmental units, the Center has grown through external support, as well as through increases in state funds. CAAS has a relatively significant infrastructure, and it has need for additional faculty positions and for research projects. The Center has begun to conduct some development work, but it is in the early stages. On the other hand, it is geographically well-situated to take advantage of its proximity to the film and entertainment industry. The program is facing an important challenge in terms of leadership.As this report is being completed, it is conducting a search for a new director. A
202 Inclusive Scholarship: Developing Black Studies in the United States search, two years previously, that had resulted in an offer to a faculty member from the University of Pennsylvania was unsuccessfully concluded. A new search began in fall 1998 and an offer was made to then Sociology Professor Larry Bobo. By fall 1999 Bobo had decided not to accept the offer and departed to become a member of the Department of Afro-American Studies at Harvard. As acting director since January of 1997, Richard Yarborough reports that he is holding the reins but had expected to hold them for a relatively short time. In fact, he has overseen faculty searches and recruitment, curricular expansion, the renewal of the Ford grant that funded the CSADP, the growth of new development activities, and the hiring of two Assistant Directors for Research who were responsible for managing CAAS research programs and extramural grants. Leadership of Afro-American Studies departments and Centers is a complex task because there are so many different processes to be balanced simultaneously. UCLA faculty M. Belinda Tucker quoted Vice Chancellor Mitchell-Kernan as saying that the role of Director of Afro-American Studies is “psychologically more difficult than being Vice Chancellor.” 27 Leadership within the broader university is also an issue. There are two senior Black administrators in the University (Winston Doby and Mitchell- Kernan) who have played leadership roles for the last thirty years, but who are edging closer to retirement. There are no clear successors. Mitchell- Kernan is also a powerful presence within CAAS, having spent the first part of her administrative career as director of the Center. It was also under her direction that the Center’s formal administrative structure, created in 1969, was so well and creatively implemented. Faculty members Belinda Tucker and Eugene Grigsby each served a term as Director of the Center before Yarborough assumed the directorship on an acting basis in 1996, while external searches have been conducted. Another challenge facing CAAS is its relationship with the other Ethnic Studies programs. CAAS has an unusual setting in that it is structurally related to Chicano Studies, American Indian Studies, and Asian American Studies under the umbrella of the Institute of American Cultures. The Directors of the respective programs meet on a regular basis although it is unclear how often they engage in collaborative programming.
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