October 14, 2011
Robert Teranishi and his research team at New York University just issued the third edition of the CARE (Commission on Asian American and Pacific Islander Research in Education ) report. Teranishi’s report, entitled “The Relevance of Asian American & Pacific Islanders in the College Completion Agenda,” includes rich information on a growing student population.
October 13, 2011
A new report says the Asian American and Pacific Islander community in the United States is not reaching its full potential in university completion.
October 12, 2011
As immigration and population growth continue to reshape the demographic landscape of the United States, college and university leaders should pay closer attention to the growing number of their Asian-American and Pacific Islander students.
October 11, 2011
The Asian-American and Pacific Islander population is one of the fastest-growing groups in the United States and is expected to reach 40 million people by 2050. But the group is often overlooked in the setting of federal higher-education policy priorities, including the goal to improve college completion, says a new report by the National Commission on Asian American and Pacific Islander Research in Education. The report, “The Relevance of Asian Americans & Pacific Islanders in the College Completion Agenda,” argues that the population is not monolithic but rather quite diverse, with some subgroups being more likely to attend community colleges and less-selective institutions, resulting in significant differences in college-degree-attainment rates among the subgroups.
October 11, 2011
Despite being one of the fastest-growing minorities in the United States, the Asian American and Pacific Islander population has not been adequately researched or its needs considered in the the higher education agenda, a new report released today says.
October 11, 2011
Despite a rapidly growing Asian American and Pacific Islander population in the United States, these students are constantly overlooked in federal higher education policy, including the national college completion agenda, according to a new report by the National Commission on Asian American and Pacific Islander Research in Education.
September 19, 2011
When looking back at my leap from corporate America to the education community almost three years ago — after spending more than 30 years as an executive at tech giant IBM — I’m still shocked at what I found out about Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) students: They have some of the largest disparities in education such as high secondary school dropout rates and low college attendance. In addition, AAPI students have educational levels that are below the national average, with several ranking among the lowest in the nation.
July 6, 2011
Asian-Americans face significant challenges to getting their education, says a new report out from the National Commission on Asian-American and Pacific Islander Research in Education. And the study has got everyone from experts to students talking, because the findings fly in the face of conventional wisdom about Asian American students as high-achieving, so-called model minorities.
July 1, 2011
Not all Asian-American students go to Harvard, Stanford, MIT and Cal Tech. A majority of Asian/Pacific Islander students attend community colleges, according to a report by NYU Professor Robert Teranishi. College-going and graduation rates are very high for East Asian and South Asian students, much lower for Southeast Asians and Pacific Islanders.
June 28, 2011
In order to boost America’s college degree attainment rates amid the country’s shifting demographics, resources should be targeted toward Minority-Serving Institutions with the highest concentration of low-income students from the often “overlooked and underserved” groups of Asian and Pacific Islander students.
Robert Teranishi
Professor of Education, GSE&IS
Co-Director, Institute for Immigration, Globalization, and Education
(310) 825-5380
robert.teranishi@ucla.edu
Moore Hall 1041C
457 Portola Plaza
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1521
Ingrid Villanueva
Administrative Specialist, Institute for Immigration, Globalization, and Education
(310) 206-9820
ivillanueva@gseis.ucla.edu
