Access and Opportunity: Ongoing Research

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Asian American and Pacific Islander Research
in Education

Race, Education and Opportunity: Towards a New
Research Imperative

 

Asian American and Pacific Islander Research
in Education


The project on Asian American and Pacific Islander                   • Facts, Not Fiction
Research in Education seeks to identify and examine               • Asians in the Ivory Tower
the key issues affecting Asian Americans in higher ed-             • Asian American and
ucation. The project maintains as a primary goal the                    Pacific Islander Serving 
practice of providing needed new data and intellectual                 Institutions: Historical
capital to inform educational policies and practices in                  Perspectives and Future
order to transcend the assumptions and stereotypes                   Prospects
that have been pervasive in the treatment of the AAPI                  • More publications... 
population in social and institutional policies.
The project has received generous funding from the
College Board in 2004, to create and sustain the
National Commission on Asian American and Pacific
Islander Research in Education (CARE).  Guided by a
National Commission of researchers, practitioners,
policy-makers, and community advocates, CARE has,
and continues to collect and disseminate crucial
data and information about the educational needs of the
AAPI community.

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Race, Education and Opportunity: Towards a New
Research Paradigm

This research area examines the experiences of                         • Black Residential     
students of color in higher education.  With a focus                        Migration in California
 on access to and success in postsecondary in-                          • Race, Ethnicity and
stitutions, this project uses critical theoretical frameworks           Higher Education
to document and bring attention to the issues that face                 Policy (Chapter 4)
Black and Latino low-income students and families along         • More publications....
the educational pipeline.  At present, areas of particular
interest include Black, low-income students in suburban
communities, racial and ethnic stratification in the Univer-
sity of California system, and the policies and practices
that facilitate and/or undermine postsecondary degree
attainment for underrepresented minority students.

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