Cal State Campus Gets Ford Foundation Grant
Cal State Dominguez Hills is among a number of universities to receive a Ford Foundation grant to study communities of immigrants who continue to speak their native language and observe native customs.
The $350,000, three-year grant is part of a nationwide project, “Crossing Borders: Revitalizing Area Studies,” which the foundation is funding.
Eighteen universities are participating, including four in California--UC Berkeley; the UC Humanities Research Institute, San Diego; and the UC Humanities Research Institute, Irvine, in addition to Dominguez Hills.
Selase W. Williams, dean of the university’s College of Arts and Sciences, to whom the grant was awarded, said the project will help provide “a more complete understanding of a people and their culture.”
He said the project represents a shift away from learning about other cultures by traveling to native lands and instead focuses on studying ethnic groups where they now reside.
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