The trailblazers in human, academic, scientific and religious freedom have always been in the minority… It will take such a small committed minority to work unrelentingly to win the uncommitted majority. Such a group may transform America’s greatest dilemma into her most glorious opportunity.
Background
Raul P. Lejano has taught in the Department of Urban Planning at University of California, Los Angeles since 1996 and in School of Environmental Science and Management at the University of California, Santa Barbara since 1999. He earned a BS in civil engineering from the University of the Philippines and an MS in environmental engineering from the University of California, Berkeley. He holds both a DEnv in environmental science & engineering and a PhD in environmental health sciences from UCLA.
Interests
Lejano’s foremost research interests involve understanding people’s deep engagements with community and environment, and reflecting such in how we design policy and institutions from a relational perspective. His work in the area of environmental education emphasizes how ecological knowledge emerges from the capacity of a person to build relationships with others –his emerging theory of environmental cognisance. Since people’s motivations are never merely utilitarian or affective or ethical, policies cannot be so simplistically designed.
News Items
MLK Visiting Professors welcomed
Five new Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Visiting Professors have joined two holdovers on campus for the fall semester.
MLK professors and scholars named
The two new MLK Visiting Professors are both MIT alumni, and will be joined by two MLK Visiting Scholars.