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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 ...
The BYU English Language Center is a Laboratory School operated by the BYU Department of Linguistics and English Language, which is a sub-division of the College of Humanities. The School admits non-English speaking students of college age for intensive courses in English.
The center is housed in the Herald R. Clark building and offers six interdisciplinary studies programs: Ancient Near East studies, Asian Studies, European Studies, International Relations, Latin American Studies, and Middle Eastern Studies/Arabic. [2] The center also manages BYU’s study abroad programs. [3]
The political uproar over diversity studies is clouding the reality that few four-year institutions offer a major in Latino or other ethnic studies. The political uproar over diversity studies is ...
Hyer received his BA in history from BYU in 1951, followed by an MA in Asian history and Asian Social Institutions from the University of California, Berkeley in 1953 and a Ph.D. in Asian History, also from UC Berkeley, in 1961. Hyer wrote the book A Mongolian Living Buddha which was a biography of Kanjurwa Khutughtu along with Sechin Jagchid. [3]
In 2017, Asian students made up 9.8% of the American full-time undergraduate college student population. [11] This is up from 7.5% in 2010. [12] Despite making up less of the student population than all other major ethnic groups, Asians were most likely to enroll, with 57.2% of such young adults enrolled in a university program.
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.
When Tina Maharath became the first Asian American woman elected to the Ohio Senate in 2018, she vowed to fight for greater representation for her community in