Author discusses her book on Asian Americans who are “college impostors” and the “model minority” myth.
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Aug 03, 2018
Authors discuss their new book on the experience of Asian American students at Harvard University.
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August 3, 2018
Authors discuss their new book on the experience of Asian American students at Harvard University.
June 25, 2013
New federal designation for institutions that serve Asian-American and Pacific Islander students could significantly aid low-income students in those groups, a study finds --- but funding for those colleges lags.
June 7, 2013
Report urges colleges and other education groups to disaggregate the numbers about Asian-American students, and says current practices to aggregate data hide inequities.
October 12, 2012
Students and counselors perceive a bias against Asian Americans in elite university admissions and say reticent college officials aren’t helping the situation.
August 8, 2011
More Mandarin-speaking students are enrolling in college, and counseling centers must address their special needs, psychologists say.
May 23, 2011
Colleges serving Asian-American students are now eligible for more federal grant programs.
March 18, 2011
Faculty member sues Brown U. for barring her from using her own research because she paid her subjects different amounts of money.
October 8, 2010
Each fall brings articles about rising Asian-American enrollments at leading colleges and universities. But according to Robert T. Teranishi, associate professor of higher education at New York University, those stories ignore broader realities -- many of them challenging -- for Asian-Americans in higher education. In his new book, Asians in the Ivory Tower: Dilemmas of Racial Inequality in American Higher Education, he discusses these challenges.
May 7, 2010
Ten years ago, Jean Yu-wen Shen Wu co-edited Asian American Studies: A Reader (Rutgers University Press), an anthology intended to introduce readers to the discipline.