Non-AAARI News

AAPI voters are the fastest-growing segment of the U.S. electorate, and campaigns and policymakers repeatedly fail to reach Chinese American voters by underestimating the size and diversity of the bloc.

Lulu Song, Brooklyn College associate professor of psychology studies what happens when schools treat a child’s home language as a problem to be solved rather than an asset to be built on. Her work shows that bilingual children are often far more capable than English-only assessments reveal — and that losing a home language early … Read more

Eight in ten AAPI adults value the American dream. Less than half are proud or excited about the upcoming 250th anniversary of the United States.

The city’s Chinese population reached 397,000 in 2023, a 5% increase from 2013, while the Dominican population declined 6% to 390,000 over the same period, according to The Newest New Yorkers report. The two groups each make up 12.8% and 12.6% of the city’s 3.1 million immigrant population.

At the CUNY-wide Baruch CEO Pitch Competition—co-hosted by the Lawrence N. Field Center for Entrepreneurship and the Baruch Collegiate Entrepreneurs—21 students and alumni competed on campus, presenting their business plans before judges and industry professionals who provided feedback. They advanced from simultaneous semifinal rounds to the main stage, where three winners took home the top … Read more

Vanessa Botelho, a CUNY Newmark J-School professor, will use the prestigious fellowship to research the book she began as a Graduate Center master’s student.