Lydia LumAsian American Pacific IslanderProfessor Jeung Aims to Guide Burmese-Americans to Successful PathNationally, Burmese-Americans have an abysmal 39 percent high school dropout rate—almost twice the rate of non-Asians in this country—so, not surprisingly, many of them live below the poverty line.April 29, 2015Leadership & PolicyExperts: Trustees Need Closer Eye on MoneyThe Association of Governing Boards is recommending that boards should address changed public finances and deliver education at lower costs as well as focus more on their role as institutional fiduciaries.April 27, 2015HomeBowdoin College President Opened Doors for MinoritiesDr. Barry Mills worked to increase access and affordability to Bowdoin for low-income families and to students of color who otherwise might not have bothered to apply to the liberal arts institution in Maine, where 95 percent of the state’s population is White.April 15, 2015Asian American Pacific IslanderFull Circle Initiative Helps AAPI Students Close GapSacramento State’s Full Circle initiative, highlighted at the APAHE conference, is a federally funded endeavor aimed at reducing educational disparities among Asian American subgroups and improving graduation rates.April 13, 2015HomeObama’s Immigration Plan Equals Positive Results for StudentsPresident Barack Obama’s executive order to postpone deportation of undocumented immigrant parents would result in better learning outcomes and a higher quality of life for their U.S.-born children.April 7, 2015Asian American Pacific IslanderAsian American Students Help Right Historical WrongThe goal was achieved last week when the California Supreme Court granted a posthumous law license to Hong Yen Chang, who had been denied the right to practice as a result of race-based exclusion laws.March 26, 2015StudentsWorkshops Seek to Increase Financial Literacy of AAPIBegun in 2013, the free-of-charge, weekend workshops target AAPI high school students, college freshmen and sophomores and their parents — especially families who lack college-going experience.March 16, 2015Asian American Pacific IslanderSuyama Project Chronicles Japanese American Resistance During WWIIThe University of California, Los Angeles’s Asian American Studies Center’s Suyama Project aims to preserve the history of Japanese American resistance during World War II.March 9, 2015HomeSurvey: College Ratings System May Hit Disadvantaged Freshmen HardestResearchers who study freshmen enrollment trends worry that aspects of the proposed system might harm many broad-access institutions and MSIs and their constituents.February 4, 2015African-AmericanOakland Achievement Gap Initiative Gains MomentumA public schools program aimed at reducing and eliminating the Black male achievement gap has been praised for offering “a beacon of hope.”February 2, 2015Previous PagePage 8 of 30Next Page
