Word: kiang
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...Professor Peter N. Kiang '80 of the University of Massachusetts at Boston, who also spoke at the forum, said that many of the criteria used to evaluate the success of Asian-Americans are misleading. Supposedly objective measures of success, such as median family income, scores on the Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) and grades can give a mistaken impression of the true position of Asians, he said...
Such broad categorization ignores a "bipolar" distribution of income and status among nationalities and language groups classified as "Asian-Americans," as well as between those of different education levels, Kiang said. Generalizations about Asian-American professional success can also obscure political or social barriers, he said...
Based on full consideration, Kiang said, "You would have to conclude that Asian-Americans do not have full equality in American society...
Many Asian-Americans are channeled early on into a narrow range of academic study, Kiang said. He said that 18 percent of the Ph.D.'s earned by Asian-Americans are in the field of engineering, 20 percent are in the physical sciences and 25 percent are in the life sciences...
During the workshop, entitled "Are weminorities?" Professor of Education and SocialStructure Nathan Glazer and Peter N. Kiang, aprofessor at the University of Massachusetts atBoston. will offer opposing viewpoints onaffirmative action...