2003 CUNY Conference on Education: Challenges & Perspectives – Program

8:15 AM – 8:45 AM              Breakfast & Registration
– Room 1-107

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Greetings
– Room 3-150

8:45 AM – 9:40 AM                Presider: Betty Lee Sung; Chaiperson;
Asian American / Asian Research Institute

Co-presider: David Cheng; Professor / Director; Counseling Center, Baruch College, CUNY

Ned Regan; President; Baruch College, CUNY

James Muyskens; President; Queens College, CUNY

Speaker: Diana Lam; Deputy Chancellor; New York City Department of Education

Hon. John Liu; Councilman; New York City

Rishi Raj; President; Society of Indian Academics in America

Hon. Betty Wu; Commissioner; New York City Department of Employment

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General Session One
– Room 3-150

Presider: Ngee Pong Chang; Professor; Physics; City College, CUNY

9:40 AM – 10:00 AM                Speaker: Nicholas Michelli; University Dean of Education; CUNY

10:00 AM – 10:10 AM              Panelist 1: Hon. Wellington Chen; CUNY Board of Trustees

10:10 AM – 10:20 AM               Panelist 2: Ron Woo; Superintendent; New York City Department of Education
– Topic: “Educating Asian Americans:  A Challenge to Education Policy Makers and  Leaders”

10:20 AM – 10:30 AM               Panelist 3: Michi Itami; Professor; Art; City College, CUNY

10:30 AM – 10:45 AM              Questions & Answers

10:45 AM – 10:55AM           Break (Tea/Coffee)

General Session Two
– Room 3-150

Presider: Hiroko Karan; Dean; School of Science, Health and Technology, Medgar Evers College, CUNY

10:55 AM – 11:15 AM              Speaker: Virginia Kee, Founder; Chinese American Planning Council
– Topic: “What have we learned? Strategies for Teaching. Experiences of a veteran teacher  in  teaching poor minority / immigrant students in New York City”

11:15 AM – 11:25 AM              Panelist 1: Incha Kim; President; Korean Education Association
– Topic: “School Violence within the Asian Community”

11:25 AM – 11:35 AM               Panelist 2: Hon. Jeffrey Wiesenfeld; CUNY Board of Trustees

11:35 AM – 11:45 AM               Panelist 3: Gary Okihiro; Professor & Director;
Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race, Columbia University, NY

11:45 AM – 12 NOON             Questions & Answers

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12 NOON – 1:00 PM             Lunch

Presider: Ching Leou Liu; Associate Professor; Library Services; Hostos Community College, CUNY

Luncheon Speaker:  Chancellor Matthew Goldstein; CUNY

Recognition Ceremony
– 2003 AAARI / AAHEC Research Awardees
– Conference Co-sponsors

Afternoon Workshop Session One
1:00 PM – 2:25 PM

Workshop 1A – 2003 AAHEC / AAARI Research Awardees
– Room 4-120

Presider: Ngee Pong Chang; Professor; Physics; City College, CUNY

Pyong Gap Min, Professor; Sociology; Queens College, CUNY
– Topic: “Religion, Host Hostility, and Identity Formation: The Experiences of 1.5 and 2nd Generation  South Asian Muslim Students”

Moustafa Bayoumi; Associate Professor; English; Brooklyn College, CUNY
– Topic: “Racing Religion”

Joyce Gelb; Professor; Political Science; City College, CUNY
– Topic: “New Developments in Gender Related Policy Making in Japan: Exploring Cross Party  Advocacy by Dietwomen”

Margaret M. Chin; Assistant Professor; Sociology;
Hunter College, CUNY
– Topic: “Chinatown After 9/11: Immigrant Adaptation and Ethnic Enclaves”

Dais Akiba; Assistant Professor; Division of Education; Queens College, CUNY
– Topic: “Family, School and Community Partnerships: Identifying the Leadership Roles of Asian Americans in Larger Communities”

Charles Riley II; Associate Professor; English;
Baruch College, CUNY
– Topic: “The Chinese Virtuoso: Celebrating the Aesthetic of Extremes”

Workshop 2A – Teaching of English to Immigrants
– Room 4-160

Presider: Dorothy Kehl; Professor; ESL Program; Brooklyn College, CUNY

Diana Berkowitz; Director; CUNY Language Immersion Program; Queensborough Community College, CUNY
– Topic: “The CUNY Language Immersion Program”

Jianguo Ji; Adjunct Professor; Modern Languages & Comparitive Literature; Baruch College, CUNY
– Topic: “Dismantling the Psycholinguistic Barriers: Developing Adequate Curriculum for New Immigrants’ English Learning”

Keming Liu; Assistant Professor; English, LLP;
Medgar Evers College, CUNY
– Topic: “Tapping Into Students’ Cognitive Processes in Reading and Writing: Interactive Strategies for Teachers of English to Asian Students”

Ganzhi Di; Assistant Professor; English;
Hostos Community College, CUNY
– Topic: “Chinese ESL Learners’ Aural-Oral Problems”

Workshop 3A – Leadership Skills, Training, and Development
– Room 4-170

Presider: Janet Patti; Coordinator; Educational Administration and Supervision Program; Hunter College, CUNY
– Topic: Leading with Emotional Intelligence

Nicholas Michelli; University Dean of Education; CUNY
– Topic:

Frank H. Shih; CUNY School of Law
– Topic:

Louise Weiyi Zhu; Membership Outreach Consultant;
Girl Scouts of the USA
– Topic:

Marcia Knoll; Associate Professor; Educational Administration and Supervision Program; Hunter College, CUNY
– Topic: “Instructional Leadership is the Key to Student Success”

Erwin Wong; Associate Dean of Instructions and Curriculum; Borough of Manhattan Community College, CUNY
– Topic:

Mae Fong; Principal;
Louis Pasteur Middle School; New York City
– Topic:

Workshop 4A – School Violence: Extent of the Problem and Solutions
– Room 4-180

Presider: Hon. Doris Ling-Cohan; Supreme Court Justice; New York State

Vanessa Leung; Project Specialist;
Coalition for Asian American Children and Families
– Topic: “Impact of Asian American Stereotypes on Intergroup Relations and School Violence”

Robert De Sena; Founder and President;
The National Council for Unity, Inc.
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Khin Mai Aung; Lawyer;
Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund
– Topic: “Violence in our Public Schools – Legal Protections and Community-based Solutions”

Jacob Wong; Retired Principal;
New York City Public Schools
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Workshop 5A – Contribution of the Arts Curriculum to General Education
– Room 4-211

Presider: Michi Itami; Professor; Art;
City College, CUNY

Amy Chin; Executive Director; New York Chinese Cultural Center and Chinese Folk Dance Company
– Topic:

Michael Griffel; Acting Associate Provost;
Hunter College, CUNY
– Topic: “Beyond the Three ‘R’s'”

Lillian Cho; Executive Director;
Asian American Arts Alliance
– Topic:

Stephanie Hsu; Education Associate;
Museum of Chinese in the Americas
– Topic: “Issues of Identity within Asian American Art and the Danger of “Self-Orientalizing”

Ellie Hisama; Director; Institute for Studies in American Music; Associate Professor; Conservatory of Music, Brooklyn College, CUNY
– Topic: “Polycultural Literacy: Teaching the Music of Asian Americans”

Robert Lee; Executive Director;
Asian American Arts Centre
– Topic: “Stories of Chinatown”

Afternoon Workshop Session Two
2:35 PM – 4:00 PM

Workshop 1B: Role of Media in Community Development
– Room 4-120

Presider: Keming Liu; Assistant Professor; English, LLP; Medgar Evers College, CUNY

Hsin Yuan Cheng; Editor-in-Chief; Sing Tao Daily
– Topic:

Mami Kuwano; Director of Youth Programs;
Downtown Community Television
– Topic:

Hye Jung Park; Project Director;
Manhattan Neighborhood Network
– Topic:

Allen Cohen; Senior Advisor; Chinese American Planning Council; Program Producer; Sinocast
– Topic:

Cecilia K. Gullas; Director; Asian Women in Media
– Topic:

Workshop 2B – Current Issues in Asian American Student Counseling
– Room 4-160

Presider: David Cheng; Professor & Director;
Counseling Center, Baruch College, CUNY

Irene Chung; Associate Professor;
School of Social Work, Hunter College, CUNY
– Topic: “Counseling Asian American Students: Understanding Emotional Distress From a Cultural Perspective”

Katie Chen; Program Director; Project Gateway,
Chinese American Planning Council
– Topic: “Counseling Chinese-American Students and their Needs”

Vincenzo Milione; Director for Research and Education; John D. Calandra Italian American Institute; Queens College, CUNY
– Topic: “Student Academic Achievement: A Comparison Between Italian and Asian Americans”

Kyoko Toyama; Professor; Counseling / College Discovery Office; LaGuardia Community College, CUNY
– Topic: “Career Counseling Issues of Asian / American Students”

Workshop 3B – Inter-Racial Relationship Enhancement
– Room 4-170

Presider: Betty Lee Sung; Chairperson;
Asian American / Asian Research Institute

Otis Hill; Vice Chancellor for Student Development and Enrollment Services; CUNY
– Topic: “Peer Perceptions of Asian Students and Intergroup
Relations”

Joseph V. Scelsa; Vice President of Institutional Development; Queens College, CUNY
– Topic: “Constructive Pluralism – A Model Workshop”

Loretta Chin; Special Projects Coordinator for the Community Building Initiative; Office of the Dean of Student Life; Brooklyn College, CUNY
&
Melanie Bush; Division of Student Life;
Brooklyn College, CUNY
– Topic: “Asian Students and Intergroup Relations at Brooklyn College”

Workshop 4B – Cultural Determinants of Asian Immigrant Communities
– Room 4-180

Presider: Parmatma Saran; Chairman; Sociology;
Baruch College, CUNY

Xiwu Feng; Associate Professor;
LaGuardia Community College, CUNY
&
Heping Li; Teacher; Social Studies;
John Bowne High School, Queens, NY
– Topic: “Parental Involvement and Student Achievement-
Perceptions and Challenges of Asian Parents and Students”

Jerome Krase; Murray Koppelman Professor; Sociology; Brooklyn College, CUNY
– Topic: “Chinatown: A Visual Approach to Ethnic Spectacles”

Virginia Tong; Professor; Curriculum & Teaching;
Hunter College, CUNY
– Topic: “Cultural Issues Concerning Asian  Students”

Yang Hu; Assistant Professor; School of Education,
Hunter College, CUNY
– Topic: “Immigrant Chinese Students’ Use of Silence in the Classroom: Perceptions, Reflections and Actions”

Workshop 5B – Civic Participation and Asian Americans
– Room 4-211

Presider: Jae Kim; Professor; Public Management & Administration; John Jay College of Criminal Justice, CUNY

Ron Kim; Co-founder / Chairman;
Young Civic Alliance of New York, Inc.
– Topic: “Civic Disengagement: Building Communal Values in Asian American Communities”

Giho Kim; President; Korean American Democrats of New York; Executive Director; Korean American Senior Citizens Counseling Center
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Philip Yun; New York Police Department;
PBQN Asian Advisory Council
– Topic:

Margaret S. Chin; Deputy Executive Director;
Asian Americans for Equality
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4:00 PM – 4:30 PM               Cocktail Reception

Presider: Thomas Tam; Executive Director; AAARI