New Endowment for Chinese American Studies Established at the UCLA Asian American Studies Center

The UCLA Asian American Studies Center is very pleased to announce that Gilbert Hom of Alhambra, California, who attended UCLA in the late 1960s and is active in the Chinese American community of Los Angeles, has generously provided a major lead gift to the Center to establish the Chinese American Studies Endowment Fund.

The endowment will support research and other activities by UCLA faculty, staff, and students that will serve to benefit and advance Chinese American Studies and the Chinese American community. This goal will be pursued through active collaboration between the UCLA Asian American Studies Center and the Chinese Historical Society of Southern California; two groups which have worked together on many community-based research, publications, and archival projects for over thirty years. Hom is currently the Vice President of the historical society.

Mr. Hom's gift serves as a significant building block for the Chinese American Studies Initiative (CASI) of the UCLA Asian American Studies Center, which was launched by the Center's faculty, staff, alumni, and friends to establish scholarships, fellowships, research funds, publications, support for special collections and library materials, student-community internships, endowed academic chairs, and community partnerships in support of Chinese American Studies. Hom has been a very dedicated founding leader of the CASI. The Center is extremely grateful for his commitment, generosity, and vision.