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Recent Event Highlights: Diversity Scholars Continue to Rise, National Park Service Dedicated Funding for DSP, National Park Service Joins in Helping DSP, Diversity Scholars Spread Across the Nation, and 2 more...

Created by PreservationNation on Aug 4, 2009

Last updated: 11/17/09 at 03:38 PM

• Diversity Scholars Continue to Rise
  2007

  After 16 years, the DSP now hits the 1,000 mark for individuals who have been funded through the scholarship.

• National Park Service Dedicated Funding for DSP
  2006

  National Parks Services dedicates the entirety of its National Preservation Conference funding to the Diversity Scholarship Program in Pittsburgh, PA.

• National Park Service Joins in Helping DSP
  2003

  National Parks Services extends a portion of its support for the National Preservation Conference in Denver, CO to Diversity Scholarship Program travel costs for three years.

• Diversity Scholars Spread Across the Nation
  1999

  By this year, approximately 500 individuals from across the nation were awarded Diversity Scholarships.

• First Year of the DSP
  1992

  Over 100 Participants from across the country attend the National Preservation Conference in Miami, FL, funded through the Getty Grant Program and Favrot Fund.

• Forum Publishes Announcement
  1991

  "Cultural and Ethnic Diversity in Historic Preservation" Forum published announcing the preservation movement's intention to preserve multicultural resources .

• Past Meets Future
  1991

  Past Meets Future lists the San Francisco conference's recommendations, including "Broaden Multicultural Participation and Build Partnerships", specifically "Establish incentive programs to help defray travel costs for minority community leaders and students to participate in state and national workshops and conferences."

• "More Racial Diversity" Needed at the National Preservation Conference San Francisco
  1991

  National Preservation Conference in San Francisco, CA calls for more racial diversity in it's participants; thus the Diversity Scholarship Program idea is created.