Word: orfield
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...Last month, Harvard lost the Civil Rights Project to the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA), when the center’s co-founder and director, Gary Orfield, decided to relocate to UCLA, where he will now co-direct the center with his wife, Patricia Gandara, also an education scholar...
...Orfield and Gandara wed last year, and Orfield writes in an e-mail that once they were married and wanted to work together, they were “immediately and seriously contacted by many major universities” and chose UCLA because it extended the best offer. Both received tenure at UCLA...
...diverse faculty can also contribute to the study of diversity, Orfield said. While he noted that race did not necessarily determine a faculty member’s interest in studying civil rights, “people who come from an African American, Latino, or Native American background have distinctive perspective and raise issues that other faculty don’t as well...
...Though Orfield will be taking the Civil Rights Project with him across the country, he said he still sees potential for the study of civil rights at Harvard...
...praised the work of Harvard Law School’s Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race and Justice and of Assistant Professor of Education James Sangil Kim, who has worked with him at the Civil Rights Project. Students who want to study civil rights issues, Orfield said, “should make their desire known...