(NAME-MCE) ACPA Pre-Con: Practitioner-Advocacy and Asian American Students!

[Munin, Art]

Dear Colleagues,

 

Vijay and I are happy to announce that we've been accepted to present a Pre-Convention Workshop at ACPA!  I hope you'll be able to share the following information with colleagues and other listservs.  There are so few Asian American-focused workshops being offered, so we're trying to get the word out.

 

Announcement: Pre-Conference Workshop on Practitioner-Advocacy Being Offered at the ACPA Annual Conference (Washington, D.C.) This Year!

Are you working effectively with Asian American college students?  Asian Americans are the fastest growing, yet most underserved, population on both 4-year and community college campuses.  This session blends Critical Race Theory and U.S. history to produce a counter-narrative framework of racial formation that will enable practitioner-advocates to better serve this population.  This workshop goes beyond the basic debunking of the model minority myth toward challenging practitioners to critically engage Asian American lived experiences, serve as advocates, and enact systemic change.  Highly interactive and useful for practitioners of all backgrounds.  Participants will emerge with knowledge, skills, and tools to effect change on their own campuses!

 

Interested? Going to the ACPA Annual Conference in Seattle this March?  Please sign up for the Half-Day Pre-Conference Workshop titled, "Beyond the Asian American Model Minority Myth:  Becoming a Practitioner-Advocate."  

The workshop is being offered on 3/29/09, 1:00 PM-4:00 PM.

Presenters: Sumun Pendakur (University of Southern California - pendakur at usc.edu) and Vijay Pendakur (DePaul University - vpendaku at depaul.edu)

 

Please let me know if you have any questions!

 

Take care,

Sumi

 

Sumun L. Pendakur
Director
Asian Pacific American Student Services
University of Southern California

 

Student Union 410
Los Angeles, CA 90089-4851
213.740.4999; 213.740.5284 (f)
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Vijay Pendakur
Director
Multicultural Student Affairs

2250 N. Sheffield Suite 304
Chicago, IL 60614
P: 773 325 7325
F: 773 325 7326
vpendaku at depaul.edu
http://studentaffairs.depaul.edu/omsa

We do not live by history but by narratives and memories that have built-in principles of forgetfulness.
-------------------------------Ashis Nandy