CUNY Asian American Student Colloquium General Session: Opening Remarks

Thomas Tam: My name is Thomas Tam, I’m the director of the Asian American Research Institute, it’s affiliated with Queens College, it’s part of the City University of New York. I’d like to welcome you from the bottom of my heart that you came to this colloquium, taking time from your very busy schedule. This … Read more

CUNY Asian American Student Colloquium Breakout Session 1

Thomas Tam: This is a rare opportunity that we can sit around and talk about this. We know how busy you are. If you can, based on your own experience, your own knowledge, tell us, as we continue to do our study, what we should really be focusing on, what are the important things we … Read more

CUNY Asian American Student Colloquium Breakout Session 2

David Cheng: In our study, we studied what we need to do in terms of assessing the needs of Asian and Asian American students in CUNY. And this is a very selective colloquium; all of you here have been invited, so you are sort of the chosen few that we feel you can contribute to … Read more

CUNY Asian American Student Colloquium Breakout Session 3

Betty Lee Sung : Most of them had jobs after school and they work, sometimes twenty to thirty hours a week. So this was a big problem… nobody knows what was happening with them. Some of the other problems with the students are, that they don’t take part in any activities outside of school. The … Read more

Between The Lines: Asian American Women’s Poetry

In her new one-hour documentary Between the Lines: Asian American Women’s Poetry , Yunah Hong combines interviews with and readings by sixteen Asian American women poets to examine the complex convergence of experience, memory, and language behind the impulse to write. Encompassing a breathtaking diversity of histories, both public and personal, the sixteen poets include … Read more