Moving Upstream: Voices of Asian Americans in Higher Education

Authors

Charles F. van Rossum, Assistant to Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Mary E. Taylor, Coordinator, President's Commission for Equity and Diversity, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH
Pablo Bueno Mendoza, Assistant Director, Department of Student Life, University of Missouri-Columbia
Tom Nishi, Coordinator, Asian American and Pacific Islander Student Affairs, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI
Jason Minh Alt, Residence Coordinator and Coordinator, Human Intercultural Relations, Office of Residence and Campus Life, Purchase College, State University of New York, Buffalo, NY

Date of this Version

November 2002

Comments

Invited Host Panel Discussion.

Abstract

Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders have traveled the professional waterways of higher education on different streams. For some, those streams have been very tranquil, yet for many the waters have been rather choppy. These experiences have been no different from other people of color who serve at predominantly white institutions.