Tag: Asian: Page 11

Asian American Pacific Islander

UCLA Scholars Receive Research Award for Study of Asian Students

The authors of the largest compilation and analysis of data on Asian American college students recently received the 2008 Asian Pacific American Network Outstanding Contribution to APIDA (Asian Pacific Islander Desi Americans) Research Award from the American College Personnel Association-College Student Educators International.

April 16, 2008

Asian American Pacific Islander

Judging the Moral Character of Black and Hispanic Children

Examining the academic achievement disparities in K-12 education between Black and Hispanic students compared to White and Asian students is not a science, however the study of moral and ethical disparities that exist between the same groups could be groundbreaking and controversial.

April 10, 2008

Asian American Pacific Islander

Getting to Know Dr. Purnima Mankekar

Ask Dr. Purnima Mankekar about family meals during her childhood in India, and she immediately recalls table conversation always revolving around feminist politics and social justice issues.

March 19, 2008

Asian American Pacific Islander

Minorities and Whites Have Differing Views of Health Care

Minorities are more likely than White patients to rate their health care as fair or poor, a view that is particularly true among Chinese Americans, Blacks born in Africa and Vietnamese Americans.

March 12, 2008

Asian American Pacific Islander

Professional Appointments

Dr. Nancy S. Dye has been appointed the first vice chancellor and president of the Asian University for Women (Chittagong, Bangladesh. Formerly, she served as President Emerita of Oberlin College. She received a bachelor’s fromVassar College, and amaster’s and doctorate from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.   DR. ZENEBE ABEBE has been appointed the first vice […]

March 4, 2008

Leadership & Policy

CU Chancellor, Student Editors Apologize for Column on Asians

BOULDER Colo. The chancellor of the University of Colorado’s Boulder campus has apologized for a student’s satirical column poking fun at Asians. Editors of the student newspaper apologized as well. The column said Asian students “hate us all” and should be rounded up and forced to play drinking games and endure other ordeals until they […]

February 21, 2008

Students

Affirmative Action Bans Hurt Male Student Enrollment

According to a new study, released by the University of California, Los Angeles, (UCLA), college admission rates of Asian American students at select public universities have thrived in the absence of affirmative action, whereas the admission rates of Black, Hispanic and White students have declined.

February 17, 2008

Asian American Pacific Islander

Couple Gives $1M to UCLA to Boost Chinese-U.S. Relations

LOS ANGELES Two Bel-Air residents said they will donate $1 million to the University of California, Los Angeles, to set up the nation’s first endowed academic chair on U.S.-China relations and Chinese American studies. Walter and Shirley Wang, who own a plastic piping firm, said Friday they want to promote understanding of China in the […]

February 3, 2008

Students

Asian American Studies: A Harvard Aspiration

During the 1980s, Asian American students at Harvard University staged a noisy protest petitioning the university to hire an Asian American studies professor. Hundreds of student signatures were collected. No professors were hired.

December 19, 2007

Asian American Pacific Islander

To Remove or Not to Remove

A topic buzzing around the campus of Oklahoma State University — should OSU remove from a building the name William H. Murray, the governor from 1931 to 1935 who wrote large portions of the Oklahoma Constitution and was reportedly a well-known bigot?

December 12, 2007

Students

Unmasking the Model Minority Myth

Widely considered as overachievers, Asian students’ academic struggles are often downplayed, ignored.

December 12, 2007

Asian American Pacific Islander

In Brief: Harvard Boosts Financial Aid for Middle-Income Students

Harvard University announced Monday a major expansion of financial aid that will help even families earning six figures; Stanford University’s historic East Asian collection needs a new home; the University of Southern Maine bans students from campus for failing to meet vaccination requirements for mumps; and University of Utah allows students to request new dorm room if they discover their roommate has a concealed gun permit.

December 10, 2007