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Students
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
Students
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 […]
Students
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 […]
Students
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 […]
Students
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.”
Students
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 […]
Faculty & Staff
Researchers Look to Census Data for Keys to Improving Educational Outcomes
A new report examines racial inequity in education and offers recommendations based off of research which touches on structural barriers that need to be overcome in order to improve educational outcomes for racial groups.
Dr. Robert T. Teranishi
Asian American Pacific Islander
Scholar Documents Economic War on Chinese Restaurants
University of California, Davis law professor Gabriel “Jack” Chin and research assistant John Ormonde have uncovered evidence of economic bias over the years against Chinese restaurants through a search of digital archives.
Gabriel “Jack” Chin
Asian American Pacific Islander
Father of Missing Chinese Scholar: ‘Give My Daughter Back’
URBANA, Ill. — The father of a visiting Chinese scholar missing from the University of Illinois made an emotional appeal on Thursday for his 26-year-old child’s safe return, saying in an interview: “Give my daughter back.” Yingying Zhang was last seen on a surveillance video getting into a black Saturn Astra in Urbana on the […]
Leadership & Policy
University of Missouri Might Revoke Cosby’s Honorary Degree
COLUMBIA, Mo. — University of Missouri System President Mun Choi wants the university to rescind an honorary degree given to Bill Cosby nearly 20 years ago. The system’s Board of Curators will vote Friday on Choi’s recommendation. A university staff memo sent to the curators says sexual assault allegations against Cosby are “incompatible” with the […]
Faculty & Staff
BYU Professor Denied Spot in GOP Race for Chaffetz Seat
SALT LAKE CITY — A judge has denied a Brigham Young University professor’s emergency request to be allowed to run in a packed Republican field to replace outgoing Rep. Jason Chaffetz. Chia-Chi Teng is teaching in China this summer. He tried to file to run in a special election via video conference before last week’s […]
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