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The Future of Minority Studies Research Project (FMS)
was initiated in 2000 by a consortium of scholars and academic institutions
with a primary interest in minority identity, education and social
transformation. FMS is organized as a mobile “think tank” designed
to facilitate focused and productive discussions across disciplines.
These discussions focus on carefully defined questions about the
role of higher education in a multicultural democracy and the need
for an adequate conception of minority identities as the basis for
progressive social change.
One of FMS’s long-term goals is to make the humanities
departments of American colleges and universities more diverse,
both culturally
and intellectually. In order to realize this goal, we have created
a summer
institute, which will
foster collaborative research and provide a mentoring context
in
which minority scholars (broadly defined to include all
those whose access to social and cultural institutions is limited
by their social identities) and those interested in minority studies
can work productively and go on to occupy leadership roles in the
academy.
FMS Workshop for HBCU faculty: A Report
FMS IN THE NEWS: "Inside Higher Ed" story on FMS 2006 Colloquium
VIDEO: Syracuse Univ. Chancellor Nancy Cantor at FMS Colloquiums
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