Claire Nguyen & Erin O’Malley | What Penn hasn’t done to support Asian American Studies
(04/14/21 6:53pm)
On March 30, the College announced that there will be a cluster hire of faculty to teach in Penn’s Asian American Studies Program. While the Asian American Studies Undergraduate Advisory Board is grateful for this news, we are disappointed that our labor and the labor of our UAB alumni, who assembled to draft a petition to demand Penn retain Dr. David Eng and support ASAM, have been left out of this news. Though we should be excited about this cluster hire as current co-chairs of the UAB, we still remain wary of this ostensible victory and Penn’s responses to anti-Asian violence.