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1980
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The Jewish Studies Program encourages research and provides instruction about the rich history and culture of the Jewish people from earliest times to the present day. Dedicated to the highest standards of scholarship, the program offers a wide array of courses in Hebrew Language and Literature, Jewish History, Bible, Rabbinics, Jewish Philosophy, and Yiddish Language and Literature. These courses, offered by a faculty renowned for its scholarly and teaching excellence, form one of the largest undergraduate Jewish Studies programs in North America. Every semester between 500 and 600 students enroll in Jewish Studies courses.
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1982 - 1988
University of Maryland Chancellor John B. Slaughter is the first African-American Chancellor of a major state university. He challenges the campus to become a “model multiracial, multicultural, and multigenerational academic community.” He makes it his personal mission to go to local black high schools and churches to recruit students, to inform them about the expanding types of student aid that were available. The proportion of undergraduate African-Americans rose from 7.6% in 1980 to 10.8% in 1990, one of the highest proportions of any state university in the country.
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Chancellor John B. Slaughter
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1984
The Diversity Initiative begins with day-long programs sponsored by the Office of Human Relations Programs.
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1986
The President’s Commission on Disability Issues is established. Its main mission is to advise the President on issues to improve the quality of life for students and employees with disabilities. The Commission meets twice each semester and the main functions of the Commission are to enhance campus opportunities and support services for students and employees with disabilities; to strengthen and augment these services where appropriate; and to identify and recommend removal of any remaining impediments to accessibility to campus buildings and facilities.
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1988 - 1998
University of Maryland President William E. Kirwan who succeeds Slaughter vows to make “diversity and inclusiveness basic precepts under which the university would operate.” In his inaugural address, Kirwan concludes that “at College Park, our efforts to build excellence are inextricably linked to our efforts to increase diversity. College Park must be a place where diversity is not only tolerated, but celebrated.”
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President Kirwan
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1989
The Curriculum Transformation Project is designed to assist faculty members from all disciplines to integrate scholarship on women, gender, and other forms of diversity into their courses, and to develop inclusive pedagogies that acknowledge "difference" as a resource in the classroom. In recent years, the Project has also emphasized the importance of incorporating international perspectives into work in women’s studies across the disciplines.
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1989
The Latin American Studies Center (LASC) provides and promotes courses dealing with issues relevant to Latin America and the Caribbean in both English and Spanish. Research is conducted in areas such as culture and democracy, governance and civil society, labor and gender, literature and ethnicity, and migration. The languages of instruction are Spanish, Portuguese and Quechua.
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