Asian American / Asian Research Institute
The City University of New York
As states across the United States begin to ban DEI programs in their colleges and universities, we asked the BRES Fellows to reflect on why a Ph.D. Program in Black, Race and Ethnic Studies is important to our society. We also asked for them to share how their scholarship is currently contributing to it.
“I looked into all the different programs,” says Ki Bang, a 2022 Nursing alumnus of Borough of Manhattan Community College (BMCC/CUNY) and father of two who changed his life’s course by pursuing a nursing career in his fifties—and was just awarded the The DAISY Award for Extraordinary Nurses.
Funding Will Launch New York’s First Dedicated Graduate Degree Program in BRES
Based on his new book, this presentation explores the recent history of Chinese immigration within the United States and the fundamental changes in spatial settlement that have relocated many low-skilled Chinese immigrants from New York City’s Chinatown to new immigrant destinations.
Anandibai Joshee, who graduated from the Woman’s Medical College of Pennsylvania in 1886, receives new recognition on what would be her 159th birthday.
A new rule announced Thursday is intended to yield a more accurate census of people with Hispanic, Middle Eastern and North African heritage.