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| Left to right: Dr. Eric Tang from UT Austin, Dr. Mitchell Chang from UCLA |
I was very sad that I missed this event in Austin. To give you some background, the Heman Sweatt Symposium came about from the legacy of Heman Sweatt, the first African American to be admitted to an all-white institution. Consequently, Sweatt v. Painter was the only case to involve The University of Texas at Austin with the U.S. Supreme Court. It foreshadowed the Regents of the University of California v. Bakke and Grutter v. Bollinger, pivotal cases in the argument that there were educational benefits for students exposed to diverse ideas. Props to my Higher Education Law class for this knowledge!
This year, the symposium featured a panel about "The Asian American Male Experience in Higher Education." You can read about this here: http://blogs.utexas.edu/ddcecentral/2012/03/05/aamales/
This is an important issue that often is overlooked. And that brings up another question: "What about my Asian American females in higher education?"
-Diane
'This is an important issue that often is overlooked. And that brings up another question: "What about my Asian American females in higher education?"'
ReplyDeletemy sentiments exactly.
There are few enough that you can start a club. Actually, the organizer of the panel is an Asian American female, one of the few at UT.
ReplyDeleteThere is an Asian American Faculty and Staff Organization that started recently. And I know the individual you are talking about - Jen. She is amazing and I'm glad to see her do this same kind of work.
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