Asian American / Asian Research Institute
The City University of New York
For many in the local Indian American community, including around 400,000 eligible voters in New York and New Jersey, it has been an uncommon election cycle from the very start.
Betty Lee Sung, co-founder of the Asian American / Asian Research Institute (AAARI), Professor Emerita, City College of New York, and recipient of the 2017 Association for Asian American Studies Lifetime Achievement Award, has established an endowment of $100,000 at the City University of New York to create a research fund under the auspices of AAARI, on Asian American topics. The fund is intended to support the research by providing funds for a research assistant, copywriter, research travel, acquisition or access to research material and similar costs so that the researcher can complete the project.
Our Nation’s nearly 200 Asian American and Native American Pacific Islander-Serving Institutions (AANAPISIs) open doors of opportunity for millions of Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander (AA and NHPI) students. AANAPISIs provide a pathway to the middle class and a better life for their students, many of whom often come from low-income neighborhoods and … Read more
The diverse group is turning out in record numbers. Neither party can take its support for granted.
Films in this year’s CUNY Shorts Showcase, part of the 47th Asian American International Film Festival deal with topics/genres including: the Bengali dessert chomchom; a husband’s selfishness and regret; the work of textile artist and art historian Dr. Nazanin Hedeyat Munroe; isolation during Covid-19; and the Bangladesh Liberation War.
The CUNY AAFF helps to promote the artistic visual talents and stimulate communication among CUNY students who are separated by the different campuses, and serve as a central location to display their creative works. Past participants have also had their films screened at the Asian American International Film Festival.