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Below is a tentative schedule for the 2009 APISA Student Success Series Workshop.

Opening Keynote - Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders Facts, Not Fiction: Setting the Record Straight

Robert Teranishi, Associate Professor of Higher Education, Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development, New York University

When "too good to be true" fails to be either good or true, long-term repercussions can be devastating and pervasive.  That's the urgent message from the National Commission on Asian American and Pacific Islander Research in Education, a project for which Teranishi is Principal Investigator.  In his talk, Teranishi challenges long-held beliefs about Asian American and Pacific Islander students' access to and achievement in higher education, including how the model minority myth is detrimental to the work of higher education practitioners and policymakers.  

Morning Keynote - Discrimination in Higher Education: Asian American Narratives

Rosalind S. Chou, co-author of The Myth of the Model Minority: Asian Americans Facing Racism, Doctoral Student, Texas A&M University

In the public mind Asian Americans are often synonymous with academic excellence, largely because their scores on standardized tests and their college enrollment levels are unparalleled among all racial groups, including whites. These perceptions of academic achievement come with a price, however, as Asian American students are also portrayed in the media and much private discussion among non-Asians as robotic overachievers in the classroom who are inept on a social level. During this keynote, participants will hear from one of the co-authors of the book The Myth of the Model Minority: Asian Americans Facing Racism report on these findings.

Session I - The State of Asian America:  Student Affairs, Asian Americans, and the Future

Mamta Motwani Accapadi, Dean of Student Life, Oregon State University
Sefa Aina, Associate Director at Asian American Resource Center, Pomona College
Sumun Pendakur, Director, Asian Pacific American Student Series, University of Southern California 

Who counts and who doesn't?  What's on the cutting edge?  What's the newest research say?  Join three practitioners for an interactive dialogue about the directions and possibilities for our field and for working with API college students.   Learn how to develop strategic practices for supporting API students through advising, activism, and programmatic initiatives!

Session II - APISA Mental Health and Immigration Issues

Victoria Duong, Attorney, specialist in immigration and nationality law, Stone and Grzegorek, LLP
Ya-Shu Liang, Staff Psychologist, California State University, Fullerton

 

Session III - Asian American Native American Pacific Islanders Serving Institution Legislation

Howard Wang, Associate Vice President for Student Affairs, California State University, Fullerton

The program will provide an historical background on legislations that eventually resulted in designating institutions with 10% AAPI students as “Asian American Native American Pacific Islander Serving Institutions” eligible for grant funding to improve retention, graduation, and recruitment.  Demographic and educational data will be used to identify under-served AAPI populations.  Ideas on how to better serve AAPI students will be solicited from the participants.

Closing Keynote -

Doris Ching, Emeritus Vice President for Student Affairs/Associate Professor of Education, University of Hawai'i