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Article: Merging Latin American and Latino Studies: UMass in Public-Private Tri-State Partnership
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- The Hispanic Outlook in Higher Education
- Article date:
- May 7, 2001
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Merging Latin American and Latino Studies: UMass in Public-Private Tri-State Partnership
Dr. Carmen Diana Deere is an extraordinary matchmaker. As director of the Center for Latin American, Caribbean and Latino Studies, at the University of Massachusetts, she tirelessly merges the natural interests of many faculty members with student demands.
Program director since 1992, she essentially linked Latino Studies with Latin American Studies on the campus, a move she says only two other schools in the country had done at that time -- State University of New York-Albany and University of California at Santa Cruz. "Coming from what was originally called African American Studies in the '70s," Deere ...