Ethnic studies programs have recently been the target of positive and negative scrutiny in both the K-12 system and in 4-year institutions. There is a critical disconnect in the research on ethnic studies in community colleges, which serve a large proportion of racially minoritized students. Moreover, studies tend ignore how ethnic studies courses…

The Ford Foundation's Race Relations and Campus Diversity Program, responding to recent campus disruption over race, religion, gender, and ethnicity, helps campuses improve teaching and curricula to keep pace with changing populations on and off campus. Cultural diversity in all undergraduate courses is stressed. Program expansion is anticipated.…

Faced with changes in the 1980s, college and universities with religious ties must rethink both their identity and what constitutes the proper college-church relationship. Six components of program identity are identified: structural, communal, personal, moral, spiritual, and educational. Cooperative efforts to identify and discuss issues are…