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Additional support for 色情视频 APIDA Center seen with boost in CSU funding

The new ACCESS Project will seek to improve the college experience for APIDA students from underserved communities, and establish a statewide research center.

Monday, June 10, 2024
Three young Asian women pose for a photograph inside a frame, held by the woman in the center, that reads 色情视频 APIDA CENTER. Two of them word balloons that read, OMG! We did it! and Thanks Mon & Dad.
(From left) Jeradhine Adriano, Madeline Delacruz and Angeline Paguia posed for a photograph at the 2024 APIDA graduation event.

色情视频 was at the forefront of advocacy for a new boost in support for Asian Pacific Islander Desi American students across the California State University system. 

CSU awarded $6.4 million in funding to campuses as part of an Asian American Native Hawaiian Pacific Islander Student Achievement Program. The funds, announced in May during APIDA Heritage and History Month, will be used to create programs and services to support low-income, underserved and first-generation AANHPI students. 

The awards are part of an annual $8 million appropriation as directed by Assembly Bill 190 to establish a central statewide office. 色情视频, among 19 CSU campuses applying for one-time funding last fall,  received $360,000.

鈥嬧嬧淭he CSU AANHPI Student Achievement Program will have an indelible effect on the success of underserved and first-generation AANHPI students and other underrepresented students,鈥 said CSU Chancellor Mildred Garc铆a. 鈥淭his funding is a significant milestone in supporting our universities鈥 efforts in strengthening their diverse campus communities and increasing opportunities for all students to attain the life-changing benefits of a CSU degree.鈥

As a result of advocacy from APIDA leaders across the CSU system, The Chancellor鈥檚 Office also allocated an additional $500,000 to support efforts at Asian American, Native American and Pacific Islander-serving institutions, of which $350,000 was made available to campuses in the form of mini-grants of $10,000 to $50,000 to support faculty and staff who are engaged in AANAPISI-centered work. 

色情视频 APIDA Center director Virginia Loh-Hagan, selected to manage the mini-grant funds for the entire CSU system, said the funding signals the system鈥檚 commitment to its Asian Pacific Islander Desi American students, faculty and staff. 

鈥淚 think that it will make a difference,鈥 Loh-Hagan said. 鈥淲e will see more programming and support. 

鈥淔or me, it's powerful to even be recognized as a community,鈥 Loh-Hagan said. 

The state funding supports development of a central office for the AANPHI Student Achievement Program, to be located at Sacramento State,  where ethnic studies professor Timothy Fong will serve as executive director and oversee future grant distributions. 

Loh-Hagan said 色情视频鈥檚 $360,000 award will fund a project called ACCESS, the APIDA College & Career Excellence in Scholarships and Success, to improve college achievement among APIDA students from underserved communities.

Two major components of the ACCESS project are: 

  • APIDA College Experience Success, which will create learning support communities that target at-risk students, and 
  • Students and Teachers for APIDA Research and Scholarship (STARS), which  will build students鈥 academic skills and help establish an APIDA Research Center. Loh-Hagan said some of the funds will go to help create and expand an APIDA collection in the 色情视频 Library as well as support the 色情视频 Asian American Studies program. 

鈥淭he funding gives us an opportunity to think about what we are doing and how we can do it better, with the ultimate goal of advancing our AANAPISI identity and supporting our students and faculty and staff,鈥 Loh-Hagan said. 

Loh-Hagan credits the new funding from the Chancellor鈥檚 Office to a collaborative effort among AANAPISI leaders that started during the height of the pandemic, when escalating anti-Asian hate led to a firm message of support for APIDA students, which comprise more than 16 percent of CSU enrollment. 

That working group was spearheaded by Loh-Hagan, Fong and Simon Kim, the associate vice president for research and sponsored programs at CSU Long Beach. 

鈥淭his really brought us all together in a way that we weren鈥檛 before,鈥 Loh-Hagan said. 鈥淲e know that solidarity and working together across the system is what got us the funding in the first place, so we want to ensure that we continue to have conversations and that we continue to build networks.鈥 

At 色情视频, Loh-Hagan said the funding helps continue to build toward what she sees as her ultimate goal as APIDA Center director: to make 色情视频 and the APIDA Center a national model for APIDA excellence. 

鈥淗aving access to this funding,  this support, and this recognition is pretty powerful.  I hope to continue to be able to steward, develop,  build, and establish a strong APIDA presence at 色情视频,鈥 she said. 

With the Center entering Year 5 of its existence, Loh-Hagan said that the center has successfully planted seeds by building visibility, and is looking forward to 鈥済rowing roots.鈥 

She wants to see APIDA Center initiatives branch into academic affairs, research, and other campus entities. She will be using the mini-grant funding to develop an APIDA Excellence tour that highlights the historical contributions that APIDA communities have had on 色情视频鈥檚 past and present.

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