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Studies doctoral program had only just begun when this review was conducted,
most, if not all, of these committees were for students in departments
other than African American Studies.
17 In 1998, Margaret Wilkerson became Program Officer for Education and
Scholarship; she was promoted to Director of Media, Arts and Culture
in 2000.
18 A Cultural Studies in the African Diaspora Project: A Proposal Submitted to the
Ford Foundation. Valerie Smith and Marcyliena Morgan, Center for African
American Studies, UCLA, undated document.
19 CAAS has since been renamed the Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American
Studies in honor of the diplomat and first African American Nobel
Peace Prize laureate.
20 “CAAS. The UCLA Center for African American Studies, History and Mission,”
UCLA Web site, July 10, 1998.
21 No follow up was done to see whether the reviews took place.
22 Mitchell-Kernan continues to serve as Dean of the Graduate Division.
23 E-mail correspondence, December 3, 1999.
24 Interview with M. Belinda Tucker, July 23, 1998.
25 1nterview with Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs Claudia Mitchell-Kernan,
July 23, 1998.
26 ASPIR, Afro-American Studies Program for Interdisciplinary Research, Final Report,
UCLA Center for Afro-American Studies, 1991, p. 2.
27 Tucker Interview, July 23, 1998.
28 In 2002 CAAS received a $700,000 grant from the Ford Foundation’s Affirmative
Action initiative to develop research on the impact of Proposition 206
on UCLA admissions.
29 Arnold Rampersad is currently at Stanford University, where he is the Sara
Hart Kimball Professor in the Humanities, the Cognizant Dean for the Humanities,
and a Professor in the English department.
30 Letter from Carter G. Woodson Center Director Reginald Butler to Alison
Bernstein, Vice President of the Ford Foundation, April 14, 1998.
31 A Proposal for Support of the Chesapeake Regional Seminar in Black Studies,
Principal Investigator: Reginald D. Butler, Department of History, The
University of Virginia. Undated document provided by Butler and the
Woodson Institute, p. 3.
32 [In the original report,] ... the first week of the three-week 1999 program is
included for illustrative purposes in an appendix following this portion of
the report. The seminar included a fascinating array of scholars with a
wide range of methodological training and substantive research interests,