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Experts: Institutionalizing Programs at AANAPISIs is Essential

One of the best ways for Asian American, Native American and Pacific Islander students to move from the margins of higher education to the mainstream is for colleges and universities to institutionalize the programs designed to serve them.

Dr. Timothy Fong

Survey: Millennials Divided Over Goal of Public School Education

A GenForward survey found that millennials are split on the fundamental issue of what the main goal of a public school education should be.

091317 Millennials

New Report Brings Facts to Light on Minority Serving Institutions

The Penn Center for Minority Serving Institutions report, backed by a campaign that utilized 52 data points for 52 weeks, highlights the contributions that MSIs make to higher education.

William Casey Boland

Asian American Pacific Islander

‘China Quarterly’ Editor Says Cambridge University Press to Restore Articles

LONDON — The editor of “The China Quarterly” says Cambridge University Press has agreed to restore more than 300 politically sensitive articles that had been removed from the publisher’s website in China at the behest of authorities. Quarterly editor Tim Pringle told The Associated Press on Monday that the publisher agreed to repost the articles […]

Asian American Pacific Islander

Former Obama Official Helps to Expand the Civil Rights Agenda

Vanita Gupta is the new president and CEO of the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, taking over the mantle from Wade Henderson, who retired this year after leading the organization for more than two decades.

Guillermo: Undocumented Student Finds Her Golden Door, Hopes to Help Others

Cheska Mae Perez isn’t a Latino name. She’s 19, a Filipino immigrant, whose example speaks to the power of DACA.

Cheska Mae Perez

Teens From 15 States Learn Mandarin Chinese in Mississippi

OXFORD, Miss. — Thirty American teenagers are learning to speak Mandarin Chinese during an intensive summer program at the University of Mississippi. Now in its 11th year, Mississippi StarTalk is a federally funded program for students who will be high school sophomores, juniors and seniors. A university news release says language classes are taught at […]

Asian American Pacific Islander

Ivy League Historian Returns Prize After Citations Questions

NEW YORK — A Columbia University professor who specializes in modern Korean and East Asian history has returned a 2014 prize he received from the American Historical Association after some sources in the winning book were questioned. Charles K. Armstrong, author of “Tyranny of the Weak: North Korea and the World, 1950-1992,” won the association’s […]

Man Held in Chinese Scholar’s Kidnapping was Grad Student

CHICAGO — The 28-year-old Illinois man charged with kidnapping a Chinese scholar now believed to be dead was among a select few admitted to the University of Illinois’ highly competitive physics graduate program in 2013. Brendt Allen Christensen originally planned to earn a doctorate degree, but told his graduate adviser in 2016 he had changed […]

Supporters Stop Where Scholar Last Seen in Illinois

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — University of Illinois students and others from the wider community gathered at the Urbana-Champaign campus to show support for a Chinese scholar who disappeared three weeks ago. Thursday’s event started at the Krannert Center when participants walked to a bus stop where 26-year-old Yingying Zhang was last seen. She got into a […]

Experts: Colleges’ Media Messages Need Diverse Appeal

As the U.S. looks ahead to a “majority-minority” future, colleges and universities ought to make an effort to broaden their outreach to diverse audiences, according to Alberto Avendano, Washington bureau chief of the National Association of Hispanic Publications.

This College Media Conference panel took on the issue of “Sharpening the News Focus with Specialized Media.”

Mystery of Missing Chinese Scholar Shakes Up University of Illinois

CHICAGO — Yingying Zhang, the daughter of a working-class factory driver from China, took the same career path as many other young Chinese academics before her: She travelled to a university in the U.S. with dreams of one day landing a professorship and being able to help her parents financially. But just weeks after arriving […]

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