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Jean Zu: Pushing Stevens to National Prominence

Dr. Jean Zu has her sights on working to increase the number of international undergraduate students at her institution and she is looking to forge stronger alliances between the institution and the STEM industry.

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Diversity of Convenience in Higher Education

As I sat, looking through a window in a bookstore at a prestigious university, I could not help but notice how monolithic the institution was. It was nothing like how it was advertised on their brochure and website, where they presented a diverse campus filled with people from different racial and cultural backgrounds.

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Being a Tourist is Not the Same as Being a Minority

I recently returned from China. I spent the summer teaching American law, in English. As a Chinese American, I must confess one of the most annoying statements that White Americans make is that, after they have been a tourist overseas, they understand what it is like to be a minority back home.

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Asian Americans: Right to Be Angry at Harvard, Not African-Americans

People of all backgrounds become so angry about affirmative action that it is difficult to discuss the subject. The current emphasis is on Asian American applicants to Harvard College and younger Asian American students competing for entry to the magnet high schools of New York City.

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The Dilemma of Diversity

Opponents of racial diversity often style themselves as proponents of intellectual diversity. These positions are not mutually exclusive. No doubt there are advocates who wish to hear multiple viewpoints being expressed on campus without the speakers suffering adverse consequences, who are sincere in their beliefs. Racial diversity and intellectual diversity, however, are related.

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The Asian & Pacific Islander American Scholarship Fund Selects New Leader

After an extensive nationwide search, Dr. Noël Suzanne Harmon, has been selected as the new president and executive director of the Asian & Pacific Islander American Scholarship Fund (APIASF).

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Report: Asian American Electorate Marginalized

Unless political candidates and their operatives more consistently and aggressively mobilize the Asian-American electorate and steer them into voter registration, the impact of this racial group at the polls will remain limited. So says a professor in response to an eyebrow-raising new study.

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Being a Good Ally

Much has been said about the African-American graduate student at Yale who was reported by a White peer to campus police for napping in a common room. I can identify. In stating my sympathy as an Asian American, however, I appreciate that my circumstances are easier. A good ally takes care to avoid appropriating another person’s suffering.

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Billionaire Chen Yidan Uses His Resources to Focus on Education

HONG KONG — He is sometimes called the Mark Zuckerberg or Bill Gates of China. And like Zuckerberg and Gates, Chen Yidan — also known as Charles Chen — has used his financial empire to make education a top priority.

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Shedding Light on Asian American and Asian Students’ Mental Health Needs

The “Let’s Talk!” conference at the Harvard Graduate School of Education convened Pan-Asian college students, supporters and other educational leaders for a day-long forum addressing the success and well-being of Asian and Asian American college students across the country.

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African-Americans and Asian Americans in Dialogue?

I write to my African-American friends to suggest three reasons for including Asian Americans in the civil rights movement for the benefit of the historic struggle for Black equality.

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Group Addresses Incarceration Among Asian Americans, Pacific Islanders

Contrary to the stereotype of Asians as the model minority in America, mass incarceration of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders in California spurred the formation of an organization devoted to addressing the issue.

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