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Wednesday, October 19, 2022

Recent Donation

As blog readers will know, we like to take notice of donations to the university that don't involve brick-and-mortar construction. From Forbes:

Supported by a $3 million gift from an anonymous donor, the University of California, Los Angeles... announced ...that it was launching the Initiative to Study Hate, a three-year effort by scholars in more than 20 disciplines to understand and mitigate hate in all its forms. The study will focus on different topics, from hatred directed to people who experience homelessness to the impact of hate crimes in different racial communities.

Under the direction of David Myers, the Sady and Ludwig Kahn Professor of Jewish History at UCLA, the initiative will feature 23 projects in its first year, supported by $600,000 in internal research funds. Additional projects will be funded in years two and three of the pilot...

Full story at https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaeltnietzel/2022/10/15/ucla-launches-ambitious-three-year-campus-wide-study-of-hate/.

To hear the text above, go to the link below:

https://ia801402.us.archive.org/25/items/big-ten/anti-hate%20donation.mp3

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