Josephine Park | A statement on the future of the Asian American Studies Program at Penn
(04/14/21 7:37pm)
The Asian American Studies Program will be celebrating its twenty-fifth anniversary this fall. We greet this milestone in brutal times, but with a resurgence of the student activism that launched ASAM in 1996. From then to now, our students have led the way: they enlisted faculty and staff to their cause of making Asian America seen and heard, and, year after year, our extraordinary Undergraduate Advisory Board has taken up the fight. Our alumni have applied the lessons they learned in our classrooms, as they cogently attest in their Letter to the Deans of Arts and Sciences, which features 200-plus testimonials on the value of ASAM to their post-Penn lives.