(May 31, 2008) This policy conference brought UC researchers and scholars interested in AAPI policy issues with state legislators and their staff members. Through dialogue, attendees had a chance to develop collaborative and research partnerships with legislators. This discourse helped them to develop venues for identifying and implementing research impacting AAPI communities. The Policy Research Conference was held at the University of California, Davis.
Connecting Communities: The University and Multi-Ethnic Civic Engagement
A Southern California Regional Symposium
(February 7, 2008) The University of California, Irvine hosted a one day symposium that examined Multi-Ethnic civic engagement and scholarship as a bridge to connect the university and community. It was sponsored by the MRP, UCI, California Campus Connect, and Learn and Serve America. With the country's changing demographics, California is in a unique position as a leader because of its ethnic and racial diversity. The university thus has a critical role to examine these impacts and to engage with leaders to find practices that meet these communities' needs. The event brought scholars, students, and administrators of various disciplines and institutions to create strategies that encouraged and maintained civic engagement programs and scholarship.
MRP Conference, "Out of the Margins: AAPIs and Educational Equity"
(November 16, 2007): The successful education policy conference held at UCLA was hosted by the MRP and the UCLA Graduate School of Education and Information Studies. With over 100 participants, the conference facilitated critical dialogue centered on the place of AAPIs in education policy discourse.As a growing minority population in the state of California and the nation, Asian American and Pacific Islander communities are often overlooked and misunderstood. The purpose of the conference helped to develop an applied and policy research agenda on AAPI's and education. Panelists, moderators and speakers for the day included: UCLA Chancellor Gene Block, Dr. Bob Suzuki (former President, Cal Poly Pomona), UC Vice President Dr. Judy Sakaki, Dr. Danny Solorzano, Dr. Rob Teranishi (NYU Steinhardt), Dr. Jeannie Oakes, Veronica Terriquez, Dr. Gary Orfield, Monica Lin, Julie Park, the "Count me In" Campaign, and many others.
(June 21, 2007): The Executive Board and campus representatives met at the Faculty Center in UCLA to review the past year and to discuss the direction of the UC AAPI Policy MRP. They also planned for upcoming activities and coordinated with other UC campuses.
SRI Stakeholders Meeting
(March-April 2007): The Initiative co-sponsored with the California Breast Cancer Research Program (CBCRP) a series of meetings throughout California for advocates, healthcare providers, researchers, and others to address the environmental causes of breast cancer and the unequal burden of the disease. The meetings gave participants the opportunity to tell CBCRP how to invest $18 million for the Special Research Initiatives. The CBCRP provided a review of scientific highlights in environmental causes of breast cancer and disparities, then open a discussion to identify promising research topics and/or approaches to increase knowledge about and create solutions in these areas.
(April 13, 2007): The Initiative sponsored a workshop on translating and transforming scholarly research into a style that can reach lawmakers, policy analysts, practitioners, and the community at UCLA. The goal of the workshop was to broaden and enhance the usefulness of university scholarship, along with to aid faculty and graduate students in translating academic documents into policy briefs and other distributable forms. Pictures
Joint Meeting with the API Legislative Caucus
(March 8, 2007): Initiative staff members met with staff members of the Asian Pacific Islander Legislative Caucus in Sacramento to make a presentation about the status of the Initiative and the launching of the database and to discuss how the Initiative may work effectively with the Joint Caucus and other elected officials and their offices. Pictures
Meeting about Proposed Annual Initiative Research Conference
(March 7, 2007): UC Davis hosted a meeting between Paul Ong and faculty of UC Davis' Asian American Studies Department and Law School to discuss the proposed annual Initiative Research Conference, which would bring together UC researchers and other stakeholders. Pictures
UCLA Migration Study Group's "Immigration and Politics" Workshop
(February 16, 2007): The Initiative co-sponsored a workshop at the UCLA Faculty Center. The workshop brought a wide variety of professors from a range of universities who covered a multi-disciplinary approach to immigration on a local, national, and international level. Also, immigration in relation to citizenship and multiculturalism was discussed.
Immigration and Politics Workshop Program Policies: Immigration, Citizenship, and Multiculturalism Jack Citrin, UC Berkeley, "Framing Public Opinion on Immigration: How Many and Who?"
Joel Fetzer, Political Science, Pepperdine, "Muslims and the State in Britain, France, and Germany"
Dong-Hoon Seol, Chonbuk National University (South Korea) and John D. Skrentny, Sociology, UCSD, "Immigrant Settlement and National Development in East Asia"
Discussant: Irene Bloemraad, Sociology, UC Berkeley
Immigrants in/and American Politics Taeku Lee, Political Science, UC Berkeley, "Perpetual Foreigners, Latent Publics, and the Unmoved Mover: Latinos, Asian Americans, and the Orthodoxies of Party Identification"
Karthick Ramakrishnan, Political Science, UCR, "When Immigration Policies Go Local: The Varying Responses of Local Governments to Immigrants andImmigration"
Ricardo Ramirez, Political Science, USC, "Today We March, Tomorrow We.....Naturalize?: The Role of Political Protests and Media in the Path to Citizenship"
Paul Ong, Urban Planning, UCLA, "Inducing Naturalization"
Discussant, David Sears, Political Science, UCLA
Immigrant Politics across Borders Edward Telles and Vilma Ortiz, Sociology, UCLA, "A Mexican-American Politics?"
Roger Waldinger, Sociology, UCLA, "Between 'here' and 'there': Immigrant
Cross-Border Activities and Loyalties"
Michael Peter Smith and Matt Backer, Community Studies, UC Davis, "Institutionalizing New Spaces for Migrant Political Agency: Transnational Voting Rights in Mexico"
Discussant: David Fitzgerald, Sociology and CCIS, UC San Diego
Dinner and Keynote Address Wayne Cornelius, Political Science and CCIS, UC San Diego, "What is the Potential for Binational Civic Engagement by Mexican Immigrants?"
Campus Representative Meeting
(January 19, 2007): Initiative executive committee members and campus representatives met to discuss priority activities and governance. Pictures
Building Common Agendas: Community-Based Curriculum Workshop
(November 3, 2006): The Initiative held a workshop to encourage more Asian American Studies faculty to incorporate community/academic service learning components in their teaching while providing resources and examples to assist faculty in successfully improving their community-based curriculum. Pictures
Omatsu, Glenn. "Making Student Leadership Development an Integral Part of Our Classrooms." Teaching About Asian Pacific Americans: Effective Activities, Strategies, and Assignments for Classrooms and Communities. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, Inc., 2006. 183-194
Omatsu, Glenn. "Mobilizing Students to Respond to Community Needs: Organizing a Class around a Community Project ." Teaching About Asian Pacific Americans: Effective Activities, Strategies, and Assignments for Classrooms and Communities. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, Inc., 2006. 205-213.
"Research Symposium: Impacts of Welfare Reform on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders (AAPIs)"
(June 29, 2006): UCLA hosted a symposium that bought together university and government researchers, as well as community representatives and legislative staff. It examined current research on this population, discuss the implications for policies and programs, and identify new research. Pictures
UC faculty and AAPI community leaders met in Los Angeles (April 2005) and in Oakland (May 2005) to jointly articulate goals and objectives for the Initiative.
Association for Asian American Studies (AAAS) Conference
Paul Ong and leaders from community affiliate organizations presented a plenary session on AAPI policy research at this annual conference. Based on the AAAS plenary session, Initiative faculty submitted recommendations to the Board of AAAS to encourage and strengthen applied/policy/action research within Asian American Studies.
Asian Pacific American Community Research Roundtable
(April 2006) Details about the Initiative’s goals and plans were presented at this meeting in Los Angeles, in an effort to continue developing the Initiative’s network with Southern California community-based organizations and community leaders
“Strengthening the AAPI Policy Infrastructure: Community-based Research, Teaching, and Advocacy" Mini-Conference (October 15, 2005, UCLA)
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