Asian American / Asian Research Institute
The City University of New York
For the new study, researchers looked at data from the National Health Interview Survey from 2013 to 2018, representing about 13 million Asian adults. They were divided into four groups: Chinese, Asian Indian and Filipino people, the nation’s three largest Asian ethnic groups, and a fourth group of people with other Asian heritage.
Governor Kathy Hochul today signed legislation that makes Diwali a school holiday for New York City public schools. Legislation S.7574/A.7769 requires that all public schools in New York City be closed on the fifteenth day of the eighth month of the Indian calendar in each year, which is known as Diwali.
Margaret M. Chin’s latest book looks at peer culture from Stuyvesant High School to the workplace.
Despite ongoing advocacy and legislation to combat anti-Asian racism that arose after the pandemic, about a third of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders say they have experienced an act of abuse based on their race or ethnicity in the last year, including being on the receiving end of verbal harassment, slurs, physical threats or cyberbullying.
The UCLA Department of Theater seeks an assistant professor in Theater and Performance Studies; the position will also be affiliated with the Asian American Studies Center as part of the Native American and Pacific Islander Bruins Rising Initiative. The successful candidate will serve as one of the core faculty supervising UCLA’s PhD in Theater and … Read more
The UCLA Fielding School of Public Health (FSPH) is conducting a search to fill an Assistant Professor (tenure track) position whose research and teaching focuses on Pacific Islander and/or Native Hawaiian health.