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The Executive Board of the Academic Senate at UCLA voted in favor of departmentalization with the Chancellor’s approval. 1 A community reception was held in the Los Angeles Chinatown to celebrate the new UCLA Department of Asian American Studies, where community members and leaders, such as California Assembly members Judy Chu and George ...
As a result of the 1968 strike, a College of Ethnic Studies (the only U.S. university academic department of its kind at the time) was established at San Francisco State University with American Indian Studies, Asian American Studies, Africana Studies, and Latino/a Studies as its four units, and a new Department of Ethnic Studies was ...
After four years as chair of the Asian American studies interdepartmental degree program, Zhou became the founding chair of the university's Department of Asian American Studies in 2005. [3] The Walter and Shirley Wang Endowed Chair in U.S.-China Relations and Communications was established at UCLA in 2008.
A student walks past UCLA's Powell Library. The question of whether Asian Americans experience bias in college admissions captured the national spotlight this week in a U.S. Supreme Court hearing ...
Don Nakanishi (August 14, 1949 – March 21, 2016) was a professor and director of the Asian American Studies Center at the University of California, Los Angeles. [1] Nakanishi is known for establishing Asian American Studies as a "viable and relevant field of scholarship."
In the first college admissions process since the Supreme Court struck down affirmative action last year, Asian American enrollment at the most prestigious U.S. schools paints a mixed, uneven picture.
Lucie Cheng (Chinese: 成露茜; pinyin: Chéng Lùxī) was a Taiwanese sociologist who was known for her work in Asian American studies, as well as being the first permanent director of the Asian American Studies Center at UCLA. [1]
Asian student enrollment has declined at Duke, Princeton, and Yale, even after a ruling outlawing affirmative action. Skip to main content. 24/7 Help. For premium support please call: 800-290-4726 ...