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Article: UC-Berkeley may create spot for Filipino-American studies prof
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- University Wire
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- February 11, 2002
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(Daily Californian) (U-WIRE) BERKELEY, Calif. -- After a 30-year struggle
by student and community organizers, University of California-Berkeley
may grant a faculty position for a Filipino-American studies professor.
The Academic Senate and executive budget committee are reviewing the
request for the new position, and the push toward greater awareness
and discussion of Filipino American studies at the university culminated
in an all-day conference Saturday.
Though the Asian American studies program was formed in 1969 under
the Ethnic Studies Department, students say a tenured faculty position
for a professor of Filipino American Studies is long-overdue.
"You ...