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How Do We Persuade the New Asian Alt-Right?

by Frank Wu | November 15, 2018 I write to ask my progressive friends, especially those sympathetic to Asian Americans, to help Read more

At the Harvard Affirmative Action Trial, We’re About to Hear From the Less Than Perfect — Who Got In

by Emil Guillermo | October 27, 2018
With the news of pipe bombs and hot rhetoric, the trial in Boston over Harvard’s use of affir [...] Read more

Report Puts Focus on Mental Health Services for Asian Americans

by Lydia Lum | October 16, 2018
A new report lists multiple ways in which lawmakers and other thought leaders across the countr [...] Read more

Remembering Chancellor Chang-Lin Tien, Champion of Affirmative Action

by Frank Wu | October 9, 2018
This past week, I was moved by the memorial for the late Chancellor Chang-Lin Tien. The first A [...] Read more

Poor in Rich Times: State Funding for Public Higher Education in California

by Amy Sueyoshi | September 4, 2018
In spring 2018, I woke up to an email announcing a proposed $61 million cut from the Governor� [...] Read more

Harvard’s Asian Problem Does Not Justify the Blum Lawsuit

by Emil Guillermo | August 7, 2018
That lawsuit filed by White conservative Ed Blum using Asians as proxies to fight affirmative a [...] Read more

Being a Good Ally

by Frank Wu | May 16, 2018
Much has been said about the African-American graduate student at Yale who was reported by a Wh [...] Read more

Discussion of Affirmative Action Impact on Asian American Students Rolls On

by Tiffany Pennamon | October 3, 2017
In an Education Writers Association higher ed session Tuesday, key figures debated whether affi [...] Read more

Guiyou Huang Named LSU-Alexandria Chancellor

by Associated Press | November 22, 2016
BATON ROUGE, La. — Louisiana State University-Alexandria has a new chancellor. LSU President [...] Read more

After 20-plus AAJA Conferences, Achieving Diversity in Media No Different Now, Maybe Even Harder

by Emil Guillermo | August 14, 2016
In education, in the media, we fight the same battles. It boils down to the basics: How do we g [...] Read more

Bahng’s Tenure Controversy Remains Cloud Over Ivy League for Asian American Studies Advocates

by Catherine Morris | July 17, 2016
For Sera Kwon, Dr. Aimee Bahng’s situation raises larger questions about the viability of a c [...] Read more

Ono Tapped as New President of University of British Columbia

by Jamal Eric Watson | June 28, 2016
Dr. Santa J. Ono, one of a handful of Asian-American college presidents in the nation, is leavi [...] Read more

After Brexit Vote and the DACA Block: Can We Really Reverse Diversity?

by Emil Guillermo | June 27, 2016
On the week of the disappointing coincidence of the Brexit vote and the Supreme Court decision [...] Read more

Asian-American Actors Are Fighting for Visibility. They Will Not Be Ignored.

| May 25, 2016
When Constance Wu landed the part of Jessica Huang, the Chinese-American matriarch on the ABC s [...] Read more

White Boys’ Club? White Faculty Still Dominates in National Stats

by Emil Guillermo | November 29, 2015
Numbers buttress student protestors’ diversity demands. [...] Read more

Diversity in Graduate Education: Looking at — and Beyond — Admissions

Does Testing Serve a Purpose in Holistic Application Review?

Supporting Noncognitive Factors: Connecting Students with Resources, from Theory to Practice