{"id":13785,"date":"2014-09-19T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-09-19T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2014\/09\/19\/dharma-civilization-foundation-to-establish-chair-in-hinduvedic-stauces-at-university-of-california-irvine\/"},"modified":"2014-09-19T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2014-09-19T12:00:00","slug":"dharma-civilization-foundation-to-establish-chair-in-hinduvedic-stauces-at-university-of-california-irvine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2014\/09\/19\/dharma-civilization-foundation-to-establish-chair-in-hinduvedic-stauces-at-university-of-california-irvine\/","title":{"rendered":"Dharma Civilization Foundation to Establish Chair in Hindu\/Vedic Stauces at University of California Irvine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dcfusa.org\/about-us\/initiatives\/initiative-3\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<p>IRVINE, CALIFORNIA, September 9, 2014 (Dharma Civilization Foundation press release): The University of California offers a religious studies program through its School of Humanities. However, these programs currently do not offer a graduate degree in religious studies, and are confined to a Bachelor&#8217;s Degree. The University of California Irvine (UCI), has expressed a commitment to establish a graduate degree program in religious studies, and is working towards developing the faculty necessary to teach at the Masters and Ph.D. levels.<\/p>\n<p>This initiative was born primarily through the proactive interest of the UCI&#8217;s School of Humanities, which came to Dharma Civilization Foundation with a proposal, where in one half of the financial commitment necessary to establish a fully endowed chair would come from the State of California, and the other half would be raised by the Dharma Civilization Foundation.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to a very generous gift by Drs. Irma and Ushakant Thakkar, DCF plans to establish the DCF-Thakkar Family chair in Hindu\/Vedic Studies at the University of California. The program will create and facilitate the opportunity for the serious study of the Hindu\/Vedic ethos that will emphasize serious scholarship in Indian history of religion, culture, philosophy, religion, and theology. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source IRVINE, CALIFORNIA, September 9, 2014 (Dharma Civilization Foundation press release): The University of California offers a religious studies program,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13785","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13785"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13785\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}