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Sunday, March 14 at 6:00 pm
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Thursday, March 18th at 7:00 pm
Asian Pacific Development Center, York Street
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We hope you enjoyed the “Best Colleges” feature the last couple weeks. There are a few things we need to do to wrap up on the series. First we want to thank all the people who helped in making the process possible: Mamta Accapadi (OR), Eugenia Beh (TX), Jason Chan (DC), Lily Huang (NY), Sahra Nguyen (MA), Corinne Kodama (IL), and Connie Tingson-Gatuz (MI).
We also want to thank everyone who sent in information about their schools. By no means was this a comprehensive process, but we received applications from 30 colleges and universities from across the country. Some schools had multiple submissions, and as promised everyone who submitted an application would be entered into a raffle for a gift package from Blacklava including a DVD of the documentary Vincent Who? The winners are: Helen T. (Cornell), Andrea L. (Michigan State University), Shiva R. (Pitzer), Leanne K. (San Francisco State University), Alyssa W. (University of Florida), and Stan T. (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign).
It was great to see so much happening at so many different campuses across the country. The top ten campuses definitely deserved recognition for their activism in the last 5 years.
Columbia
Dartmouth
Loyola Marymount University
Oberlin
Pitzer
UCLA
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
University of Massachusetts, Boston
University of Pennsylvania
USC
We also wanted to give honorable mentions to:
San Francisco State University
SUNY Binghamton
University of Denver
University of Florida
University of Washington
While we congratulate everyone on their ongoing work to represent and organize AAPIs in higher education, we do want to note that it may have been more appropriate to call this project the “Best Colleges for Asian Americans.” Unfortunately, Pacific Islanders remain severely under-represented in colleges. It would be great to see more Asian American students learning more about Pacific Islanders and remembering to work with them, as allies, to address the severe educational inequalities faced by Pacific Islanders.
But overall, we've been super impressed by all the amazing work that so many people are doing out there to build the next generations of community-oriented activist leaders. So keep up the hard work!
Finally, we at APAP would also like to thank Angry Asian Man for co-publishing this series. As he would say... "Stay Angry!"
APAP is a national network of progressive Asian Americans and allies. We count on the support of our members and friends to continue our work of advancing progressive ideas. Please consider joining today.
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We'll keep working to crack the top ten ;)
Great work, guys! With this successful first effort, I know we'll get inundated with entries next year.
How did Stony Brook University (larger population of Asian Students, MUCH more accepting community and closer to a large Metro Asian center...) Not to disparage Binghamton... but SBU is by far more welcoming to Asians.. from all over the world, as well as locally.. we offer over 333 students groups with a majority focusing on some aspect of culture.
Yes, I am an Alum and current staff.. member. But I would genuinely encourage anyone to visit the campus and speak with our students.. and then perhaps this gem of a school can be added to the list.
MKC - did Stony Brook submit an application? As the judges noted, only schools that submitted applications could be considered, and a lot of great schools with strong AAPI activist traditions were unfortunately left out because they didn't apply.
Heh, too bad everyone goes home on the the LIRR during the weekends.
Student life at SBU is a JOKE
Sincerely,
Binghamton
Heh, too bad everyone goes home on the the LIRR during the weekends.
Student life at SBU is a JOKE
Sincerely,
Binghamton
We probably didn't have the funding to do that.. :-)
I don't know... I was just curious. Thanks for the explanation!
MKC - The application process was free, and in several cases, was done by students on their own. I know how these things often turn on having a particularly proactive student or students at the right time, but hopefully now that the first one of these has been done, people know what to expect next year. We'll look forward to Stony Brook's participation next year!
Dear Binghamton - at least when we get on a train there is somewhere to go! Our students are 50 minutes from NYC.. your students... hmm.. let me see... cows, oh wait - that's right you are less than an hour from Scranton, PA!!
Our students are a short train ride from dim sum, kimchee, noodles, pad thai, spring rolls and the greatest food/entertainment everywhere.. and your students... can go to that deli on first ave.. oh wait, that closed. Well, have fun with the cows! Oh, and our weekend life on campus is fabulous.. haven't you heard? Most students STAY on campus over the weekends now.
HAH, your defense of stony is that all the Asian stuff is AWAY from campus.
We prefer the students to get involved with cultural shows, cooking ethnic foods and holding workshops rather than hopping on the train and getting it in the city. =]
No - I was just responding to the specific comment made by our rural friends to the north about our students leaving campus - they don't (but when they DO - they sure have an amazing place to go!)
We have over 300 student groups the majority of which are cultural or ethnic in nature, we have the Wang Center (donated by Charles Wang) a beautiful building with Asian aestetics that houses DAILY cultural and educational offerings Asian in nature, we have FREQUENT celebrations, demonstrations, music, food etc. and a great deal of effort goes into ensuring that all our students are able to participate in events relevant to their culture. We have sorrorities and fraternities dedicated to particular ethnicities/cultures and our Asian S/F are among the most active.
We are a great place for any student to live, learn and recreate.. but if the many offerings on campus.. aren't enough, yes, there is that train! We have a lot to offer any students.. really.
it's unfortunate... i was hoping for a submission from stony brook, but again... like berkeley, stanford, and some other notable schools... there was no submission. you had to send us some info for us to review. you dont' get in the game, you can't win the game.
again... it's a shame that no one from stony brook sent in a submission. there was no fee to the application. it was free and open to ANYONE to complete.
sounds like there are some great things going on at stony brook. we'd like to hear more about them next year!
oh please...stony? really?
@calvin: and this is why none of the judges were current college students ... :P
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