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December 2006 > School News
GSE Well Represented in New Berkeley Diversity Research Initiative
UC Berkeley Chancellor Birgeneau marked the culmination of a two-year effort this fall by announcing the selection of three diversity-research initiatives from among a wide field of finalists for funding under the new Berkeley Diversity Research Initiative (BDRI).
Dean David Pearson, professor Norton Grubb and Edley are represented on one of the three Berkeley Diversity Research Initiative (BDRI) clusters: Educational Policy Collaboration Research Approach. The other two initiatives are the Diversity and Democracy Cluster and Diversity and Health Disparities Cluster. The selected projects focus on racial inequities in urban public schools, the root causes of health disparities among diverse populations, and diversity and democracy.
Birgeneau said that six full time employees have been assigned for the new interdisciplinary research clusters, with the number of employees were expected to grow over time. Under BDRI, new faculty hires will collaborate with existing faculty across a wide range of disciplines on diversity-related research themes and, eventually, instructional programs. and GSE faculty are representatives
The School of Education hosted two of the first three seminars in the Chancellor’s Distinguished Diversity Research Series: Stanford Professor of Education Kenji Hakuta opened the series in March; Guadalupe Valdés, professor in Stanford’s Department of Spanish and Portuguese at Stanford’s School of Education spoke in September.
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