Center News
President Bollinger Visits CSER
On Friday, September 14, the CSER Board welcomed President Lee C. Bollinger to the Center for a briefing on the state of CSER and its activities.
Welcome Leon Bynum, Assistant Director of CSER
CSER is delighted to welcome Leon James Bynum as its new Assistant Director. We are fortunate to have him join our ranks as Assistant Director, and we expect much from him as an unusually innovative administrative officer. Please join us in welcoming Leon James Bynum.
Curricular Reform
The faculty and students of CSER have been involved in extended conversations on curricular reform this year. In addition to streamlining requirements for our three majors—a set of minor reforms that will be in place for 2007-08—the faculty will develop three new core courses that will be shared by all majors. One course will be an historical survey of race and subject formation from the early modern period to the present; the second will focus on contemporary “ethnoscapes,” that is, it shall explore the connection between globalization and ethnic formation; finally, the third course will be a methods seminar that fosters the development of research projects with real world implications. The faculty also agreed to make the senior thesis course—a program that was piloted this year—a compulsory part of the curriculum. This plan is now moving into development. CSER plans to introduce the new courses and new major requirements by the spring of 2008.
Collaboration with Intercultural Resource Center
Ajay Nair, Associate Dean of Student Affairs, has put together a successful proposal for the expansion of the Intercultural Resource Center, with space for 9 more student residents. The Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race is currently working with the IRC and the Office of Multicultural Affairs to develop an academic curriculum with these students that will be attentive to their concern with community development. These programs will begin in the spring of 2008.
6 April 2007
The Center launched its new website!