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...banquet was organized by the Harvard-Radcliffe Chinese Student Association (CSA) and featured a 15-course meal catered by Peach Farm Restaurant and Taiwan Cafe and performances by the Asian-American Dance Troupe (AADT), the Harvard Tai Chi Tiger Crane Kung Fu Club, and other musical and dance groups...
...visitors who offer courses in Native American, U.S. Latino, and Asian American studies.” The adoption of secondary concentrations gives the Committee an opportunity to do far more for ethnic studies than ever before. If it is serious about promoting ethnic studies at Harvard, it should begin right away to push for its own secondary concentration, which would assume responsibility for the College’s nascent course offerings in Asian American, Latino, and Native American studies.Lastly, given that Asian Americans represent about a fifth of all Harvard undergraduates, Asian-American studies is not only an important field...
...Business School faculty voted to drop special minority admissions procedures, arguing that they were no longer needed to ensure enrollment of black, Hispanic, Asian-American, and Native American students...
...true that some Asian Americans have attained high levels of scholarly achievement—for instance, 64 percent of Asian Indians hold at least a bachelor’s degree, and over 50 percent of Chinese and Pakistani do. The counter story, however, is one we must also keep in mind; among Cambodians, Hmong and Laotians, only 8 or 9 percent graduate college—in fact, only about half graduate high school .Thus the label of Asian-American, and particularly of the “model minority” Asian American, denies acknowledgement to the many subgroups that desperately...
...well it is run. Route 66 enthusiast Emily Priddy agrees. She refuses to list on her popular website any motel proclaiming itself American owned. But there's always a new bend in the American road trip. Shilo Inns Suites Hotels, a large chain that has long supported veterans' causes, advertises itself as American owned but considers the phrase an expression of appreciation, not exclusion. When Shilo granted the hotels' first franchise in 2001, it went to an Asian-American family named--you guessed it--Patel...