GSOE Spotlight
C4 Professional Development Series
C4 has partnered with Riverside Community College to organize a series of professional development seminars on topics of importance to faculty, administrators, and students at RCC.
January 17, 2008
Come join Dr. Robert Teranishi of New York University for his seminar on “Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders in U.S. Higher Education: Race, Education Policy, and the Stratification of College Opportunity.” on Thursday, January 17, 2008 from 3:00-5:00 pm. The seminar will take place at the Riverside Community College --Norco Campus in the Little Theater Auditorium.
Robert Teranishi is an Assistant Professor of Education in the Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development at New York University. He is currently Co-Director of the National Commission on Asian Americans and Pacific Islander Research in Education (CARE) and is a faculty affiliate in the Steinhardt Institute for Higher Education Policy and a senior research associate with the Alliance for International Higher Education Policy. Prior to coming to NYU, Teranishi was a National Institute of Mental Health postdoctoral fellow at the University of Pennsylvania. He received his B.A. from UC Santa Cruz in Sociology and his M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of California Los Angeles in Higher Education and Organizational Change.
“Race, equity, and affirmative action are among the most contentious and debated issues in U.S. higher education. Teranishi will discuss his contributions to these debates empirically through the interrogation of the complex relationship between the social construction of race, education policy, and the stratification of higher education. His discussion will include his work that has examined the relationship between state policy and performance outcomes in higher education, and the Asian American and Pacific Islander student population – a group that has been characterized as the new adversary in the equity agenda. Particular attention will be given to implications of a substantial and growing Asian American and Pacific Islander population in the community college sector.”
Please contact April Salas for more information.