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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]
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.
After ten weeks of struggle, the academic senate voted 550 to 4 to establish an interim Department of Ethnic Studies pending further negotiations for a Third World College. [10] Even though UC Berkeley's TWLF called a moratorium on strike activities, they were adamant about their goal of winning a Third World College. [11]
The two main chapters were at UC Berkeley, and San Francisco State College, both of which became heavily involved in the larger Asian American movement throughout the 1960s, including at the Third World Liberation Front strikes at SF State and at UC Berkeley. [1]
Asian American Studies appeared as a field of intellectual inquiry in the late 1960s [1] as a result of strikes by the Third World Liberation Front, a group of ethnic minority students at San Francisco State University and at the University of California, Berkeley. The students demanded that college classroom instruction include the histories ...
A bill making ethnic studies a graduation requirement for California public-school students is expected to be signed by Governor Newsom
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.
[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.