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Asian American E-Zine
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Creating Community at Stony Brook
To the Members of SBU's Asian American Community:
This coming Thursday the University will hold a
Town Hall meeting on Campus Climate. We hope you will all attend.
We are Stony Brook alumni and although we have been gone from
the University for quite a few years, we are still involved. On April
29th we will return to talk about career options with current students.
We were the co-Chairs of the first Diversity Day initiated
by President Kenny. We later put together a proposal for Community 101, a
student initiated course for everyone at SBU (faculty, staff, and
student) to take or teach.
In some respects we have seen things get worse rather than
better. Where once Student Affairs was headed by an African American, Dr.
Preston, and for a year the Director of Student Activities was an Asian
American, Robbie Fung - the University's upper management is now all white
and there is not one single full time staff person in Student Activities who
is Asian American.
We have also seen some things get better so we do not want it
to seem as though the University has only regressed. When we began there
were no Asian Americans in the University Counseling Center. Now there are a
few and the head of the Wo/Men's Center is also Asian American. The problem
is that they are not seen by the majority of students.
Where are the role models for the 50% of the students of
color? Where are the role models for the 25% of students of Asian
heritage?
The Community 101 proposal is still a draft but the concepts
that were good then are still good now. We hope you will read it. We hope you
will go to the Town Hall meeting to talk about how to make Stony Brook more
inclusive. Whether you can go or not, we hope you will add your comments to
the University's website for this Climate initiative.
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