Diversity Project
Racial and Ethnic Diversity
Institutional leaders talk about efforts to increase racial and ethnic diversity at Stanford.
The Racial and Ethnic Diversity Oral History Project gathers the memories and reflections of university staff, faculty, and alums involved in efforts to increase diversity in Stanford's student body and provide services and structures to support students. Phase One of the project focused on issues of diversity in the undergraduate student body from the period 1968 to 1987. Later interviews explored graduate student diversity and brought together early Chicano/Latino faculty members.
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Early Chicano/Latino History at Stanford
In this panel discussion, four of the earliest Chicano faculty members at Stanford share their experiences and reflect on the challenges faced by the Chicano and Latino populations of students and faculty from the late 1960s to the late 1980s. Participants include Albert Camarillo, Leon Sloss Jr. Memorial Professor, Emeritus, from the Department of History; Jim Leckie, C.L. Peck, Class of 1906 Professor in the School of Engineering; Jerry Porras, the Lane Professor of Organizational Behavior and Change, Emeritus, in the Graduate School of Business; and Renato Rosaldo, Professor of Anthropology, Emeritus. Topics include recruitment to Stanford and the impact of affirmative action, demands on faculty of color, the institutionalization of support for Chicano faculty and students, and Stanford’s efforts to increase diversity.