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Asian American Pacific Islander

University of Central Arkansas planning Chinese studies program

CONWAY Ark. A Chinese studies program involving several academic fields is planned at the University of Central Arkansas, paid for in part with a federal grant, university officials say.

September 22, 2007

Asian American Pacific Islander

ILLINOIS STYLE: Cultural differences may affect brain’s wiring

CHAMPAIGN Ill. On Denise Park’s office wall is a lovely Asian painting, kind of a market scene in what looks to be a village square.

September 18, 2007

Faculty & Staff

Combating the Model Minority Stereotype

LOS ANGELES For more than a decade, a group of educational leaders within the University of California system have been working towards a common goal: the development of a statewide think tank that would address the issues of the growing Asian American and Pacific Islander population.

September 4, 2007

Asian and Pacific Islander Students in California Say ‘Count Us Correctly’

When Christine Santos arrived at the University of California, Los Angeles from Guam in the fall of 2004, she said she felt like a foreigner even though nearly 34 percent of new students at UCLA were Asian.

August 22, 2007

Asian American Pacific Islander

Educational Challenges of Some Asian Students Being Overlooked, Says GOA Report

The perception of Asian American and Pacific Islanders as the “model minority” because of their exceptional educational achievement needs reevaluation, according to a new report from the Government Accountability Office.

July 29, 2007

Asian American Pacific Islander

Univ. of Mississippi to Open Japanese Saturday School

OXFORD Miss. The University of Mississippi plans to open a Japanese Saturday school for children whose families are moving from Japan to work at a Toyota plant that is being built in Blue Springs.

July 15, 2007

Loan debt: a new view

Student loan debt. It weighs heavily upon hundreds of thousands of Americans. It also is the leading reason African Americans drop out of college. Yet, surprisingly, a new study shows that indebted Black students actually are carrying a lighter debt load than their White and Asian peers. And they tend to come from households that have comparably higher incomes.

July 12, 2007

Asian American Pacific Islander

Carving Out Their Own Niche

African-American cultural expression is one of the many influences fueling Asian-American artistry.

May 30, 2007

Asian American Pacific Islander

Lawyer: Duke Cheating Case Hit Asian Students Hardest

DURHAM, N.C. Asian students involved in a cheating scandal at the Duke University business school were punished more severely than others, their attorney says.

May 21, 2007

Asian American Pacific Islander

Asian Panel Debunks “Model Minority” Myth

When early news reports about the Virginia Tech shootings indicated the alleged perpetrator was Asian, Yixin Li, a University of Maryland freshman, said he prayed the shooter, Seung Hui Cho, would be Korean or Vietnamese and not a fellow Chinese. That distinction didn’t matter to some observers because “after the incident people started calling me Cho,” Li recalled Wednesday at a forum, “The End of the Model Minority Myth: Reflections on the Virginia Tech Tragedy from Asian American Perspectives.”

May 9, 2007

Asian Americans Urge Not to Stereotype Community

Asian-American community members are fearful of a backlash given the recent events at Virginia Tech and are urging Americans not to reduce the tragedy into stereotypical assumptions about Asian Americans or Korean Americans in particular.

April 19, 2007

Asian American Pacific Islander

UCLA Expert Challenges The Asian-American “Model Minority” Assumption

Asian-American youth are often portrayed as the “model minority” who have perfect SAT scores and attend Ivy League schools, but there is a segment of the Asian American population who are low-income students struggling to become the first in their family to earn a college degree.

March 1, 2007

Asian American Pacific Islander

Overshadowed

Ask the average person what comes to mind at the mention of the Black Panther Party…

February 7, 2007

Message To College Papers: Leave Racial Satire Alone

Recent parodies of Blacks and Asians in college newspapers in the name of satire have been met with condemnation, including journalism scholars who say free-thinking future journalists need to “grow up and put on their thinking caps.”

January 28, 2007

Asian American Pacific Islander

Princeton Newspaper Column Prompts Calls Of Racism

PRINCETON BOROUGH, N.J. An article in the annual joke issue of Princeton University’s student newspaper has left some readers accusing its staff of racism. The Daily Princetonian issue included a column with a byline that closely resembles the name of Jian Li, an 18-year-old Asian man who filed a civil rights complaint against the university last summer after he was denied admission.

January 20, 2007

Asian American Pacific Islander

Sincerely “Reaching Out”?

I was appalled by the fact that a column addressing “reaching and recruiting under represented students” was…

December 27, 2006

Asian American Pacific Islander

Taking a Stand

Every December, the nation pauses to remember Pearl Harbor, the site of the 1941 Japanese surprise attack that propelled…

December 13, 2006

Historians John Hope Franklin, Yu Ying-shih Named Winners of 2006 John W. Kluge Prize for the Study of Humanity

Drs. John Hope Franklin and Yu Ying-shih have been named the recipients of the third John W. Kluge Prize for lifetime achievement in the study of humanity, the Library of Congress announced Wednesday. They will share the $1 million prize.

November 14, 2006