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  		Opportunities

Majors and minors are encouraged to participate in a wide variety of CSRE-sponsored activities that foster a sense of undergraduate intellectual and social community and offer real-world laboratories in which to apply their classroom knowledge:
  • Full-time paid summer research internships for those who apply to complete a self-designed research project in collaboration with a community agency
  • Public Policy Institute, a two-week, pre-Autumn quarter seminar taught by a leading faculty member that provides exposure to critical public policy issues. This residence-based institute provides room and board and all seminar materials for participants, including a visit to Sacramento to meet with policy-makers
  • Annual prizes and awards to recognize student leadership and scholarship



Community Research Summer Internship

The CCSRE community research summer internship is sponsored by the office of the Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education, the Raikes Foundation, and the Escobedo Commemorative Fund. The internship program aims to facilitate the integration of undergraduate students into original and innovative research experiences that delve expressly into community issues. Enhancing this experience through faculty mentorship, students are supported to develop a research internship that is community-based, community supported, and that includes an analysis that engages issues of race and ethnicity. More...



Public Policy Institute

With the generous support of the Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education and a gift from Camacho’s Incorporated, CSRE hosts the Public Policy Institute every September. The two-week long residence-based seminar, taught by political science professor Gary Segura, provides students with exposure to major public policy issues directly affecting ethnic and racial groups in the United States. Participants have an opportunity for intensive and focused study of policies at the state and national levels and have contact with several Bay Area and California state leaders. The Institute seeks to provide perspectives on what it takes to be a leader in a diverse society and to foster an intellectual and social community among the participants.

“PPI offers knowledge applicable to real-world politics. Everything in the two weeks--from lectures to the Sacramento visit to the final assignment of drafting a policy brief--contributes to a practical understanding of how policy can unite multiple interests, among them those of underrepresented minorities.” (Will Gutierrez, former PPI student)



Prizes and Awards

The undergraduate program in Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity offers annual prizes and awards to recognize the leadership and scholarship of our majors and minors. Each award is presented to a graduating student and the Diploma Awards Ceremony.
  • Senior Paper Prize
    The Senior Paper Prize honors a graduating student for excellence in the completion of a senior paper. The senior paper is a quarter long culminating experience where a student completes an independent research project about a topic of intellectual interest. The student works with a faculty advisor and graduate student mentor to develop and complete the paper. Recipients of the Senior Paper Prize receive a certificate of recognition and a cash prize.
     
  • Award for Community Outreach and Engagement
    The Award For Community Outreach And Engagement was established to honor the exceptional work of a student who integrates service to the community with his or her academic work. The award recognizes that what is learned in the classroom can provide the skills and tools to work for a better world. The CSRE Award for Community Outreach and Engagement celebrates our students who put those skills and tools to work throughout their undergraduate experience. Recipients of this award receive a certificate of recognition and a cash prize.
     
  • George Fredrickson Award for Excellence in Honors Research
    The undergraduate program in Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity named its research award in honor of George M. Fredrickson after he passed away in 2008. He was the Edgar E. Robinson Professor of U.S. History, and one of the faculty leaders who helped create the Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity.

    The George Fredrickson Award For Excellence In Honors Research is presented to students whose honors theses demonstrate the academic rigor and commitment to justice that George Fredrickson believed were necessary dimensions of scholarship. Recipients of the Fredrickson Award receive a certificate of recognition, a book from Professor Fredrickson’s extensive bibliography, and a cash prize.

    An influential scholar and teacher who helped to change the way historians, social scientists and others think about race and racism, George Fredrickson believed that scholars could and should make a difference through their research, writing and teaching. His commitment to equality and justice exemplified these principles and is honored through the presentation of this award.



 
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