The twenty-first
century challenges higher education to reformulate knowledge in
ways that extend and remove many of the intellectual boundaries
that characterize the traditional Universities. The growth of
multi-disciplinary and interdisciplinary fields of inquiry, research
centers, and study groups is a leading edge of this new wave.
The project, titled "Educating for the Future: Theorizing
Differences/Building Commonalities", seeks to be at the forefront
of this process of re-visioning the academy of the future. Supported
with funds from the Ford Foundation, the researchers from the
Consortium on Race,Gender, and Ethnicity; the Afro-American Studies
Program; and the combined units of the Curriculum Transformation
Project and the Department of Women’s Studies continue to
work togther, conducting distinct but related projects; sharing
resources and information; and promoting the project goals.
Educating
for the Future through Institutional Transformation
This grant
provides core support for the activities of the Consortium
on Race, Gender and Ethnicity as it seeks to become a
national center for the scholarship on the intersections of race,
gender, ethnicity and other dimensions of identity and inequality.
Constructing
Collective Paradigms and Practices
Building upon
and extending the success of its earlier project on
meaning and representation of Black Women’s work, the
Department of African
American Studies is establishing a "Center for African-American
Women's Labor Studies" which will bring together a multi-racial
and ethnic group of scholars to explore how the presence of women
in the workplace affect the experiences and imaginations of women
of color, their families and their communities.
Theorizing
Differences, Building Coalitions, Crossing Borders in Women's
Studies Graduate Education
In this part
of the project, the Department
of Women's Studies and the Curriculum
Transformation Project
at the University of Maryland seeks to enhance and institutionalize
the work in bringing international perspectives to bear on women's
studies and establishing coalitions to explore theoretical, institutional,
and pedagogical issues across national borders.
