EventsEOTU began as an interdisciplinary seminar in 2002-03 sponsored by the UIUC Center for Advanced Study. Activities in 2002-03 focused on a consideration of what it means to know a university ethnographically. Further, 2002-03 events took up consideration of a number of practical matters germane to the piloting of EOTU as a pedagogical project. Events in 2003-04 were funded in part by a grant from Humanities in a Globalizing World, one of the Cross-Campus Initiatives sponsored by the Office of the Chancellor. The EOTU Working Group met bi-weekly to discuss Globalization and the University: how globalizing processes are affecting U.S. universities, and how U.S. universities are affecting globalization. Activities in 2004-05 are funded in part by a Ford Foundation grant to the Center on Democracy in a Multiracial Society. As part of the Ford initiative, EOTU student researchers are studying how race and diversity are taken up in various courses at the university. In related work, EOTU's partner project, the Ethnography of the Brown v. Board of Education Commemoration (EBC), will produce a report and book manuscript in September 2006. Each semester, EOTU hosts conferences featuring undergraduate students'
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