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Community centers at Stanford: A history of activism
by Neel Thakkar
Tags: A3C, asian american students' a, Black Community Services Center, Black Student Union, clubhouses, community houses, diversity, El Centro Chicano, Native American Cultural Center, Student Affairs
When it was founded in 1891, Stanford was ahead of its time: The school did not charge tuition fees, it admitted women and it had no religious affiliation. There were Asian American and Native American students in the first classes. But despite these measures, Stanford was, for the first 70 years of its history, overwhelmingly male – and even more overwhelmingly white.
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