Building the Southeast Asian Consortium at SUNY and CUNY

Funded by the Luce Foundation, Prof. Nerve Macaspac will discuss his four-year project to establish a Southeast Asian Studies network in the State University of New York (SUNY) and City University of New York (CUNY) systems. The SUNY/CUNY Southeast Asia Consortium (SEAC) is an interdisciplinary initiative to promote research, teaching, and related efforts around Southeast Asia and Southeast Asian Americans in New York’s public universities.

SEAC aims to develop institutional infrastructure and robust connections across New York’s public university systems—SUNY with its sixty-four campuses and 370,000 students, and CUNY’s twenty-five campuses, 270,000 students—with the wider New York public and policy community, and with counterparts in Southeast Asia. The statewide SEAC links faculty, students, alumni, and surrounding communities.