{"id":336515,"date":"2010-02-18T16:07:36","date_gmt":"2010-02-18T21:07:36","guid":{"rendered":"tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c630a53ef0120a8b32a40970b"},"modified":"2010-02-18T16:07:37","modified_gmt":"2010-02-18T21:07:37","slug":"uc-berkeley-receives-16-million-donation-to-expand-diversity-related-programs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/336515","title":{"rendered":"UC Berkeley receives $16-million donation to expand diversity-related programs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span lang=\"EN\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">UC Berkeley has received a $16-million donation from the Evelyn and Walter Haas Jr. Fund to expand academic programs in various aspects of ethnic, religious and sexual diversity and to fund scholarships for low-income community college students who transfer to the campus, officials announced Thursday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Among other things, the donation will fund five new faculty chairs in diversity-related research, including one of the nation\u2019s first endowed chairs on lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender equity issues. It will also\u00a0be used to add more American Cultures courses, which are required of all UC Berkeley undergraduates, and to revise some to emphasize community service outside the classroom. And $1.5 million will be set aside to match donations for\u00a0financial aid for transfer students. <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">&#8212; Larry Gordon<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UC Berkeley has received a $16-million donation from the Evelyn and Walter Haas Jr. Fund to expand academic programs in various aspects of ethnic, religious and sexual diversity and to fund scholarships for low-income community college students who transfer to the campus, officials announced Thursday. Among other things, the donation will fund five new faculty [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5645,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-336515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336515","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5645"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=336515"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336515\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=336515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=336515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=336515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}