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Students, alumni, staff, and faculty of the UCLA Asian American Studies Center are planning a year-long array of campus and community activities to mark the 25th anniversary of Asian American Studies on campus.
For our generation of Pilipinos-for the Pilipino youth in American-Manong Philip Vera Cruz represented and will continue to represent the values of social responsibility and political activism.
The University of California recently approved the establishment of a bachelor’s degree program in Asian American Studies at UCLA.
“I am an American.” These words appear in a 1993 mural by artist Darryl Mar commemorating the struggle for Asian American Studies at UC Irvine.
Marking another major victory in their campaign for curricular reform, Asian Pacific students at UCLA recently gained language classes in Hindi, Thai and Vietnamese for the 1994-95 academic year.
The Asian American Studies Center and four community-based groups have been awarded a $100,000 grant from the national Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA), U.S. Department of Commerce, to access the information superhighway.
Professor Robert Nakamura of the School of Theater, Film, and Television is Associate Director of the Center.
“It’s the best of both worlds,” says Professor Pauline Agbayani-Siewert about her recent joint appointment as Assistant Professor in Asian American Studies and Social Welfare at UCLA.
The UCLA Institute of American cultures for 1994-95 has awarded grants to graduate students, researchers, and faculty to support research projects.
Dr. Harry H. L. Kitano, a pioneering scholar in Japanese American Studies, has retired from his posts in the UCLA School of Social Welfare and Sociology Department.
The Akira Togawa Papers Reception was held at UCLA on January 16, 1994, at the Department of Special Collections, University Research Library.
The Asian American Studies Center announces the formation of an organization devoted to the support and enhancement of its library: the Friends of the Reading Room.
The current issue of Amerasia Journal features prize-winning historical essays by Arleen de Vera and Eiichiro Azuma, recipients of the Alexander Saxton Essay Awards for 1992 and 1993 respectively.
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