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The college was founded in Fall 1969 to meet a portion of the demands. [3] In 2016, hundreds of students protested against budget cuts to the college and for the expansion of the college's programs. [4] Until 2019, the college was the only College of Ethnic Studies in the United States.
The establishment of the first College of Ethnic Studies at San Francisco State, the first Ethnic Studies Department at Berkeley, increased hiring of faculty of color, and efforts to increase minority representation on college campuses all resulted from the actions of the Third World Liberation Front. [7] [8]
They also organized in solidarity with the San Francisco State College TWLF strike. On January 22, 1969, the Afro-American Studies Union, the Mexican-American Student Confederation (MASC), the Native American Student Alliance (NASA), and the Asian American Political Alliance (AAPA) coalesced to form the Third World Liberation Front at UC ...
A bill making ethnic studies a graduation requirement for California public-school students is expected to be signed by Governor Newsom
After learning about the Third World Liberation Front at San Francisco State in the AP African American, she was inspired to apply to the San Francisco State and major in Ethnic Studies.
[4] [25] [28] The school agreed to establish the first College of Ethnic Studies in the country, housing the departments of American Indian Studies, Asian American Studies, Black Studies, and La Raza Studies, and to accept almost all nonwhite applicants for the Fall 1969 semester.
For decades, the history of Southeast Asian refugees have been sidelined in U.S. history. California's first state-legislated Southeast Asian model curriculum aims to change that.
Ethnic studies departments were established on college campuses across the country and have grown to encompass African American Studies, Asian American Studies, Raza Studies, Chicano Studies, Mexican American Studies, Native American Studies, Jewish Studies, and Arab Studies. Arab American Studies was created after 9/11 at SF State University.