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Article: UCSB Gets 1st Asian American Studies Department
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May Lam
AsianWeek
03-10-1995
UCSB Gets 1st Asian American Studies Department.
By May Lam
While the University of California at Berkeley prides itself as one of the forerunners of Asian American studies research, UCLA boasts the 25th anniversary of its Asian American Studies Center. UCLA and UC Berkeley have Asian Pacific American students enrolled, respectively, at approximately 34 and 38 percent of the student body.
But at a university where APAs account for only 16 percent of the student population, UC Santa Barbara (UCSB) has achieved what these larger universities with a far greater number of APAs (and reputation) have not -- on Jan. 19, an Asian American studies department was ...