CED's History of Diversity

Despite anti-Asian exclusion laws in the first half of the 20th Century, there were a surprising number of Asian students in the architecture program. Women students also contributed to the architecture and landscape programs from the beginning, growing to a sizeable number until and during World War II and decreasing alarmingly in the years thereafter. The War also affected Japanese students whose education was put on hold by Executive Order 9066 sending them to internment centers. As a result of the social and political turmoil of the late 1960s and early 70s, various student groups were founded and diversity issues put on the College’s agenda. The Landscape Department has a long history of women among the faculty which increased for all departments partly as a result of legislation which played a role in the hiring of diverse faculty and staff. Diversity remains an important issue at CED. 

GLOW (Gays & Lesbians of Wurster) posters.
Department of Architecture Record

Student Statistics 1974-75

Student statistics for the years 1974/1975, listing gender and race student statistics.
Department of Architecture Records

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Professor Mary Comerio with architecture students Howard Kutter (left) and Joe Johnson (right); Elmhurst Community Design Center.
Department of Architecture Records

Gay & Lesbian Discrimination Survey, 1982.
Department of Architecture Records

Student project

Evi Li student project folding panel with graphics, 1970.
Department of Architecture Records

A Century of Women: Evaluating Gender in Landscape Architecture

A Century of Women: Evaluating Gender in Landscape Architecture Poster for the symposium on Women in Landscape Architecture, 2002.
Department of Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning Records

CED Students

CED Students.
A New Modernism, Raymond Lifchez & Carrie Morgan, exhibit curators

Bachelor of Arts Degree in Architecture

Bachelor of Arts Degree in Architecture diploma, UC Berkeley, 1949.
Terry Tong Collection

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The "Social Factors" group at Berkeley, ca. 1989. Sue Rossoff, photographer
A New Modernism, Raymond Lifchez & Carrie Morgan, exhibit curators

CED's History of Diversity