Since 1969, the Center for Chicano Studies at UCSB has served as the campus ORU for sponsored research in Chicana/Chicano Studies. Because the Center's origins were intricately bound to the larger Chicano student movement concerned with questions of community education and Chicano/Latino underrepresentation among undergraduates, graduate students, and faculty at the University of California, the mandate of the Center has traditionally embraced the development of programs aimed at addressing these concerns. Hence, the Center evolved into a unit that sought to develop faculty research initiatives in Chicana/o Studies and participate in the recruitment and retention of Chicano/Latino faculty, graduate students, and undergraduates as well as work with the larger Chicano/Latino community in the local area. To date, the Center for Chicano Studies is one of only two ORU's in the University of California system devoted to these goals.

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