Cal State to receive $1.5 million grant to expand ethnic studies

The California State University system is one of five institutions to receive a grant from the Mellon Foundation’s Affirming Multivocal Humanities initiative to expand ethnic studies programs.

The foundation awarded the system $1.5 million, which will go to existing programs and to develop new ones by adding degree concentrations, creating blended bachelor’s-master’s degree programs, and establishing transfer pathways.

The chancellor’s office also will host a convention of ethnic, gender and sexuality studies faculty from across the system to determine how the grant money will be distributed.