April 29, 2014
Last week, the U.S. Supreme Court rejected a challenge to a voter-approved Michigan law that bans affirmative action in the college admissions process. On a 6-2 vote in Schuette v. BAMN, the Supreme Court reversed the opinion of the Sixth Circuit Court that struck down the law.
April 23, 2014
Full Circle Project is the first program at Sacramento State to serve underrepresented Asian-American and Pacific Islander students.
April 17, 2014
A recent report published by the National Commission on Asian American and Pacific Islander Research in Education (CARE) and the Asian and Pacific Islander American Scholarship Fund (APIASF) on three Asian American Native American Pacific Islander Serving Institutions (AANAPISIs) marks a seminal shift in our understanding of Minority Serving Institutions (MSIs).
April 15, 2014
It is estimated that by 2050, the Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) population in the United States is projected to reach nearly 40 million people. As our nation becomes increasingly diverse, it is critically important to promote college success among students of color.
April 10, 2014
Higher education is an economic necessity, and yet the higher-education system in the United States is under strain today with ever-increasing prices and disappointing completion rates.
April 10, 2014
Since arriving at Columbia, being “Asian” has meant something different to me than what it meant growing up in Karachi and London. There, the term referred exclusively to South Asians: people of Pakistani, Indian, Bangladeshi, or Sri Lankan descent. Still, before I came to Columbia as an international student, I knew that “Asian,” in the collective American imagination, was generally mapped onto East and Southeast Asians.
March 13th, 2014
Laurel Directo was just 4-years-old when race-conscious admissions were banned from California’s public universities in 1998. Now 20, and attending UCLA, Directo doesn’t think schools should go back to using affirmative action. “I would hope they would admit us on based on our merit and achievements, and not, you know, our race,” Directo said. Still, she recognizes the advantage she had as the daughter of Filipino engineers who sent her to good schools in Irvine.
March 11, 2014
Current methods of collecting and reporting data on Asian-American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) student populations conceal significant disparities in educational experiences and outcomes. said UCLA professor of education Robert Teranishi, who recently released a report produced in partnership with the White House Initiative on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders and the Educational Testing Service.
March 11, 2014
UCLA Professor of Education Robert Teranishi recently released a report that examines how current methods of collecting and reporting data on the Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) student populations conceal significant disparities in educational experiences and outcomes. The report, which is titled, “iCount: A Data Quality Movement for Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders in Higher Education,” was a product of a partnership with the Educational Testing Service (ETS) and the White House Initiative on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders. The report was released last summer at a national symposium hosted by the U.S. Department of Education and the National Commission on Asian American and Pacific Islanders in Education, a project for which Professor Teranishi is Principal Investigator.
January 15, 2014
Six faculty members of the UCLA Graduate School of Education and Information Studies were included on this year’s list of “RHSU Edu-Scholar Public Influence Rankings” published by Education Week. Those recognized are Marcelo Suárez-Orozco (dean of UCLA’s Graduate School of Education and Information Studies), Patricia Gándara (professor of education and co-director of the UCLA Civil Rights Project/Proyecto Derechos Civiles), Eva Baker (distinguished research professor and co-director of the UCLA Center for Research on Evaluation Standards and Student Testing (CRESST)), Gary Orfield (professor of education and co-director of the UCLA Civil Rights Project/Proyecto Derechos Civiles), Mike Rose (research professor in the UCLA Education Social Research Methodology Division (SRM)) and Robert Teranishi (professor of education and co-director of the Institute for Immigration, Globalization and Education at UCLA).
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
