Date: Friday, May 2, 2003 Time: 8:15AM to 4:30PM
Place: Newman Vertical Campus – Baruch College, CUNY
55 Lexington Avenue (E. 25th Street), Room 3-150,
btwn Lexington & 3rd Avenues, Manhattan
– 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.
– Topic:
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
– Topic:
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
– Topic:
Philip Yun; New York Police Department;
PBQN Asian Advisory Council
– Topic:
Margaret S. Chin; Deputy Executive Director;
Asian Americans for Equality
– Topic:
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4:00 PM – 4:30 PM Cocktail Reception
Presider: Thomas Tam; Executive Director; AAARI
Conference Chairperson
Conference Vice-Chairperson
Conference Co-Sponsor
Asian America
Asian Americans For Equality
Asian American Higher Education Council
Baruch College, CUNY
Office of the Chancellor, CUNY
Con Edison
Hunter College, CUNY
Queens College, CUNY
TIAA-CREF
Verizon
Coordinator
Ana Lai
Technical Assistance
James Huang
Mimy Liu
Antony Wong