Narrowing their focus from full-fledged concentration to simple inclusion, the Asian American Association is working with the East Asian Studies program to create an Asian American Studies track within the department’s secondary field as a precursor of sorts to an Asian American Studies concentration.
Tang, whose contract expires in May 2008, notes there is imminent danger in placing the onus on students [to propel faculty]. The danger, he says, is that you begin to characterize Asian American Studies as a field that should only be brought to a university because it is popular among a student demographic.
“It’s great that students show interest, but the administration has to understand the value of Asian American Studies as an intellectual field of inquiry,” Tang says.
--Michelle J. Nealy
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