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Students

Asian American Leaders Criticize State Rights Commission Task Force

Asian American students and community leaders are criticizing a state Human Rights Commission task force report on Washington State Story:

August 31, 2005

Leadership & Policy

Minority Test Takers Make Significant Gains on SAT

Minority Test Takers Make Significant Gains on SATBut achievement gap between White, minority students persists By Cassie ChewWASHINGTONAmong the record 1.4 million college-bound students in the class of 2004 who took the SAT, another record number of these SAT takers, 37 percent, were minority students, the College Board said in its annual report of SAT […]

September 22, 2004

Asian American Pacific Islander

Diversity Intersects With National Security

Diversity Intersects With National SecurityThe UNCF’s Institute for International Public Policy plans to engage ‘unusual suspects’ in a discussion on the global importance of a diverse work force By Cassie ChewAfter nine years of sending African American, Hispanic, Asian American and American Indian undergraduate students around the globe to study the socio-economic and political structure […]

September 10, 2003

Asian American Pacific Islander

Life Experiences Color Online Classmates’ Identities

Life Experiences Color Online Classmates’ IdentitiesBy Lydia Lum The words “race blind” literally took on a new meaning when I enrolled in an online class. Gone were the labels I had used so often, like reaching for a TV remote control. Black and White. Asian. Multiracial. So it wasn’t surprising that race crossed my mind […]

March 12, 2003

Asian American Pacific Islander

Events

EventsMARCHMarch 21-22Third Annual Conference of the Center For the Study of Race and Race RelationsJ. Wayne Reitz Student Union and University AuditoriumGainesville, Fla.Contact: Barbara DeVoe, Phone: (352) 392-8070E-mail: [email protected]: www.law.ufl.eduMarch 21-25The National Association for Equal Opportunity in Higher Education (NAFEO)27th National Conference on Blacks in Higher EducationHilton Washington HotelContact: NAFEOPhone: (301) 650-2440Fax: (301) 495-3306Web: www.nafeo.orgMarch […]

March 13, 2002

African-American

A Snapshot of Black History Month Celebrations

A Snapshot of Black History Month CelebrationsTake a look at how a few colleges and universities across the country celebrated Black History Month.1.  Bethune-Cookman College, Daytona Beach, Fla.Black History Trivia Tournament; Gospel Concert; African American Composers Concert2.  Broward Community College, Ft. Lauderdale, Fla.Panel discussion: “Rasta, Reggae and Christianity: Lessons of Tolerance Between Cultures”; Performance: “An […]

February 27, 2002

Asian American Pacific Islander

Dosing Out Lessons Of Diversity

Dosing Out Lessons Of DiversityBy Lydia Lum  DEXHEIM, GermanyMy eyes were still adjusting to the auditorium lights flickering back on, as the crowd of young American soldiers swarmed me. I had just finished my slide-show talk about Angel Island — the Ellis Island of the West Coast and a major entry point for Chinese Americans. […]

November 7, 2001

Asian American Pacific Islander

Events

EventsAPRILApril 11-122nd Annual Kent State Symposium on Democracy“Media, Profit and Politics: Competing Priorities in an Open Society”Kent State UniversityKent, OhioPhone: (330) 672-3161Fax: (330) 672-9995Web: www.kent.edu/democracy–symposium April 22-25American Association of Collegiate Registrars & Admissions OfficersAACRAO Annual MeetingSeattleContact: Gloria RutbergPhone: (202) 293-8857Fax: (202) 872-8857E-mail: [email protected]: www.aacrao.orgApril 26World Poverty Conference“Poverty and Globalization”St. John’s UniversityJamaica, N.Y.Contact: Professor Azzedine LayachiPhone: […]

March 28, 2001

Asian American Pacific Islander

Discovering the Ties that Bind

Discovering the Ties that BindSome folks argue that people from the South Asian Federation — which includes India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal and Bhutan — share no cultural or historical ties with the Asian nations to the East.“We are connected by the shared experience of British colonialism and by common regions,” says Dr. Sucheta […]

February 2, 2000

Asian American Pacific Islander

It May Be Tough, but A Multiracial Identity Is Not a Crisis

It May Be Tough, but A Multiracial Identity Is Not a CrisisBy Terrence J. Lee-St.JohnTerms like “Black issues” used to make me feel uncomfortable. I am of racially mixed parentage and have never really felt like I belonged to a particular community — African American nor Asian American nor Native American.The first time I was […]

February 2, 2000