LaGuardia Community College Welcomes Nine New Faculty Members
LaGuardia Community College/CUNY welcomes nine new full-time faculty members, who will share their expertise and guide associate-degree-seeking students to academic success.
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Students launch Our CUNY campaign aimed at combating hate
As the 2024-2025 school year officially gets underway and in the spirit of renewal, the student-run initiative is working to combat ableism, ageism, antisemitism, homophobia and all types of hate.
Breast cancer rises among Asian American and Pacific Islander women, and experts aren’t sure why
About 11,000 Asian American and Pacific Islander women were diagnosed with breast cancer in 2021 and about 1,500 died. The latest federal data shows the rate of new breast cancer diagnoses in Asian American and Pacific Islander women — a group that once had relatively low rates of diagnosis — is rising much faster than … Read more
AAARI Thanks Dr. Yung-Yi Diana Pan for Her Service as Interim Executive Director
The Asian American / Asian Research Institute thanks Dr. Yung-Yi Diana Pan for her service as interim executive director of the Institute during the 2023-2024 academic year. Dr. Pan returns back to teaching in the Sociology department at Brooklyn College this semester, in addition to being a co-PI of the Brooklyn College AANAPISI Project (BCAP). … Read more
Join the Localized History Project 2024-2025 Youth Action Board
If you are passionate about… Transforming NY State Schools Learning Real History Uplifting Localized Histories of the Asian American Pacific Islander and Native Hawaiian (AANHPI) community Writing your own Curriculum + Conducting Participatory Action Research Join the Localized History Project’s Youth Action Board (YAB), hosted by AAARI and the Coalition for Asian American Children + … Read more
City’s Bangladeshi community grapples with unrest and uncertainty back home
Chaumtoli Huq, an associate professor of law at the CUNY School of Law and a Bangladeshi New Yorker, joined Errol Louis on “Inside City Hall” Thursday to talk about the country’s future.