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Tag: Asian American
Asian American Pacific Islander
Webinar Tackles Anti-Asian Hate
Several hundred educators recently participated in “Community Connection: Recent Incidents of Racially-Motivated Bias, Violence and Hate Against Asian Americans,” produced by ACUHO-I (Association of College and University Housing Officers—International) and NADOHE (National Association of Diversity Officers in Higher Education).
April 30, 2021
Asian American Pacific Islander
Professor Put on Leave for Telling Student to ‘Anglicize’ Her Name
California’s Laney College has put a professor on leave after he asked a Vietnamese-American student to “Anglicize” her name, saying its pronunciation sounded “like an insult” in English, reported Newsweek. In an email chain that was shared on social media, student Phuc Bui Diem Nguyen responded to professor Matthew Hubbard by writing, “Your request to […]
June 22, 2020
Students
Report: To Ensure Equity, Prioritize CARES Act Aid for Public Colleges
While the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic is felt throughout higher education, a report from the Center for American Progress advocates that public colleges and universities deserve the largest allotment of aid to ensure that racial and economic inequalities don’t deepen.
June 7, 2020
African-American
U of Central Florida Professor Tweets About ‘Black Privilege,’ Many Want Him Fired
University of Central Florida (UCF) students and many others are calling for the institution to fire Charles Negy, a professor who has been tweeting about ‘black privilege’ and ‘minority idolatory’, among other things, since the death of George Floyd in police violence. The university, on its Twitter account, said it’s reviewing the issue “while being […]
June 4, 2020
Asian American Pacific Islander
Do We All Look Alike?
“You all look alike,” is what people told me when I was a kid growing up. As an Asian American in the Midwest in the 1970s, before diversity was “a thing,” I was always aware my family was different — and difference was not celebrated. I laugh, or try to, now if anyone accuses me of identity politics. They have it backwards: I struggled to assimilate, to avoid being marked by my heritage. I understood to be accepted by my peers, I had to forsake my ancestors.
June 2, 2020
African-American
‘More Rivers to Cross’ for Penn State to Improve Status of Black Faculty
Penn State University still has “more rivers to cross” to improve the status of its Black faculty, according to a recent report by two of its professors who spent more than eight months researching the subject in an effort to highlight diversity issues at the institution.
April 30, 2020
Asian American Pacific Islander
Amherst College President Urges Students to Call Police if Racially Harassed
Amherst College president Biddy Martin has, in a letter this week, urged students and other community members to call the campus or local police if they are the target of racial harassment in the wake of the coronavirus. “Students, staff, and faculty who become the target of bias, harassment, or assault – verbal or physical […]
April 9, 2020
Asian American Pacific Islander
The President’s Diversity Values Stink
While there is no vaccine for COVID-19 we do have a vaccine for the ignorance of xenophobia. It’s called knowledge. President Trump can use a little of that right now, instead of shooting from the lip as he did numerous times on live television last week.
March 24, 2020
African-American
DOJ Files Amicus Brief Saying Harvard’s Admissions Policy Violates Civil Rights Law
The U.S. Department of Justice, in an amicus brief filed on Tuesday to a federal appeals court, is arguing against a ruling from last October, which defended Harvard’s use of affirmative action in its admission process.
February 27, 2020
Asian American Pacific Islander
UAlbany Asian Students Call for Investigation of Coronavirus-Themed Party
Asian students and members of the University of Albany Asian American Alliance are requesting that the Dean of Student Office “investigates” a coronavirus-themed party hosted by students at the University of Albany over the weekend. In a statement posted to Instagram, the Asian American Alliance wrote, “As members of the Asian community on campus, your […]
February 18, 2020
Asian American Pacific Islander
What I Learned from The Vagina Monologues
One of the proudest accomplishments of my undergraduate experience was my involvement with the V-Day Movement that produces The Vagina Monologues every year. Freshman fall, I joined this organization whose mission is to “end violence against all women and girls (cisgender, transgender, and those who hold fluid identities that are subject to gender-based violence).”
November 7, 2019
Asian American Pacific Islander
How Do We Persuade the New Asian Alt-Right?
I write to ask my progressive friends, especially those sympathetic to Asian Americans, to help me answer a question often asked by Asian American students about their Asian immigrant parents. More specifically, many students whose elders are Chinese immigrants — who may not identify as either “Asian” or “American,” much less “Asian American” — have given to me the most difficult query: how can they discuss race and civil rights at home, with family members who are, in their words, “racist” toward African Americans and Latinos.
November 15, 2018
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