Edinboro University’s president leaving for Illinois post
Guiyou Huang becomes Western Illinois’s president in January
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70% of Asian Americans support affirmative action. Here’s why misconceptions persist.
With the Harvard affirmative action case a step closer to the Supreme Court, Asian American activists say much of their work involves dispelling myths about affirmative action’s impacts.
Making history: Three Korean American women, two representing California, win seats in Congress
By text, by phone and by social media, they trumpeted the news from California to Asia: Late Friday, Young Kim had joined her “sister” Michelle Steel in making history as two of the first three Korean American women ever elected to the U.S. House of Representatives.
Judge Rules Acting DHS Secretary Lacked Authority To Suspend DACA Program
A federal judge in New York City says Chad Wolf was not legally serving as the acting secretary of homeland security when he issued a memo in July that stopped new applicants to the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program.
Miami Marlins hire Kim Ng as general manager. She’s the first woman and first Asian American GM in MLB history
The organization says Ng is now the highest-ranking woman in MLB team operations and is believed to be the first woman hired as a GM to lead a professional men’s sports team in any North American major league.
Richard Yao Appointed Interim President of California State University Channel Islands
California State University (CSU) Chancellor Timothy P. White has appointed Richard Yao, Ph.D., to serve as interim president of California State University Channel Islands (CSUCI). Yao currently serves as CSUCI’s vice president for student affairs. Yao will assume the leadership of the university on January 11, 2021 with the departure of current CSUCI president Dr. … Read more