[1] The mission of CRSP is to conduct solution-oriented social science research on race, ethnicity, and color and their influence on the quality of life for Americans in the 21st century.
In addition, the center offers a speaker series, summer institutes, and an online directory; publishes demographics reports and the journal Race and Social Problems; and much more.
The Directory presently contains: During the academic year, the center hosts a monthly series of lunchtime lectures featuring experts from across the nation addressing issues of race.
The summer institutes feature presentations and discussions with national and local experts and are intended for researchers, educators, administrators, community leaders, policymakers, and practitioners.
The journal provides a multidisciplinary and international forum for the publication of articles and discussion of issues germane to race and its enduring relationship to psychological, socioeconomic, political, and cultural problems.
It publishes original empirical articles that use a variety of methodologies, including qualitative and quantitative (descriptive, relationship testing, and intervention studies), and papers using secondary data sources.