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International Initiatives In Higher Education California State Polytecnic University, Pomona It was Thursday, as I recall, of the third week in November 1989 when Michigan State University inaugurated the Julian Samora Research Institute. David Scott, then Provost of MSU, noted that earlier that week the world witnessed the fall of the Berlin Wall. This symbol of the cold war served as a cold reminder of barriers we have constructed, even within our own cities, to separate people. Just as the Berlin Wall was coming down to reunite East and West Germany, so too the creation of a new Hispanic policy research institute would represent the destruction of a barrier to knowledge and access on and for Latinos. It was appropriate that the Institute was named for Julian Samora, one of the first Chicano Ph.D.'s in the country, and a mentor to over 50 Latino and other scholars on the Latino experience in the United States. A pioneer in the study of the U.S.-Mexico border, Samora demonstrated that the Chicano experiences the nexus of U.S.-Mexico relations, and nowhere is this integration more evident than along the 2,000-mile border shared by the two countries. Described as a "scholar activist," Samora devoted a lifetime of scholarship and activism to the belief that knowledge should be transmitted not only in the classroom, but in the community, where it could make a difference in the lives of people who would not otherwise have access to the halls of academe.
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