Month: February 2020
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Why Nick Mitchell Is Returning the Chancellor’s Achievement Award for Diversity
Dear Chancellor Cynthia Larive, Last year I received, from your predecessor George Blumenthal, the 2019 Chancellor’s Achievement Award for Diversity. I was proud then to accept the award. I took it to represent UC Santa Cruz’s continued recognition, not of me in some narrow fashion but to the collective worlds that made me possible. Those…
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CRES Solidarity Statement with COLA Campaign
The faculty in the Program in Critical Race and Ethnic Studies (CRES) at UC Santa Cruz expresses our solidarity with graduate students who are calling for financial resources to meet the rapidly rising costs of living in and around Santa Cruz. CRES, like so many other ethnic studies programs, owes much of its existence to…