Angel Island Immigration Station Field Trip
Coordinators:Russell Jeung
Beginning in 1993, the Asian American Studies Department has taken its students on an Angel Island field trip to view and experience the historic Angel Island Immigration Station that had detained thousands of Chinese and Asian immigrants from 1910-40 in a prison-like environment. This is a semester event attended by an average of 100-150 Asian American Studies students. The field trips are funded by Instructionally Related Activities Funds.

Asian American Access and Retention Project (AAARP)
Coordinator: Marlon K. Hom
The Asian American Access and Retention Project recruits and provides post-secondary educational opportunities to underrepresented and under-served Asian Americans at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. Through outreach activities such as student mentorship, and tutorial, educational programs, AAARP provides middle and high school students with exposure to and interaction with San Francisco State University. Through faculty mentorship and advising, the project monitors Asian American students on campus to complete their education. AAARP has also sponsored summer orientations for new and incoming Asian American students.

Asian Student Union
Faculty Advisor: Lorraine Dong
Asian Student Union (ASU) originated during the Third World Student Strike at San Francisco State University. Initially called the Asian American Political Alliance in 1968, the organization changed its name to Asian Student Union in 1974. Through community service, as well as cultural, educational, political, and social events, ASU hopes to instill a better understanding and awareness of conditions and issues that face the Asian American communities-city, state, and nationwide. ASU welcomes AAS majors, minors, and graduate students, as well as all those interested in Asian America. Under the auspices of Associated Students, Inc., Asian Student Union is a major cosponsor of the annual ASU/AAS student graduation celebration. In 2003, it cosponsored the 20th anniversary edition of the Yellow Journal.
Office: Mezzanine Level, Room 100 E, Cesar Chavez Student Center
Telephone: 415-338-1958
Email: asu@sfsu.edu
Website: userwww.sfsu.edu/~asu

Chinese American Studies in China
Coordinator: Marlon K. Hom
Asian American Studies Department offers AAS 629 (Travel Study in China) in the College of Extended Learning. The course enables students to experience and observe contemporary Chinese culture, as well as study Chinese America's ancestral origins in the Guangdong Province and how the Chinese American experience has impacted families and villages in China. Enrollment is limited. More Info...

Chinese Historical Society of America (CHSA) Projects
Coordinators: Lorraine Dong and Marlon K. Hom
The Asian American Studies Department has collaborated with the Chinese Historical Society of America on a variety of partnership ventures that have actively involved both faculty and students. Beginning in 1989, AAS has jointly sponsored and produced the Society's annual journal, Chinese America: History and Perspectives. A major joint venture was the 1993 international conference entitled "The Repeal and Its Legacy: A Conference on the 50th Anniversary of the Repeal of the Chinese Exclusion Acts" and the publication of its proceedings in 1994. For SFSU's yearlong Centennial celebration in 1999, AAS produced an exhibition for the CHSA Museum entitled "Dreams, Realities, and Challenges," which commemorated the 30th anniversary of the founding of the College of Ethnic Studies. AAS also cosponsored with CHSA a monthly community lecture series entitled "CHSA/SFSU<in>the Community," with SFSU alumni/alumnae speaking year-round on issues pertaining to Chinese America. Since 2001, SFSU students from AAS and the Art Department have curated three more exhibitions at the CHSA Museum.

Currently, AAS and CHSA are collaborating on the Daniel K.E. Ching Project, which catalogues and studies 10,000+ Chinese/Asian images in 19th to early 20th century American popular culture. AAS graduate students have special access to the collection to do primary research for their theses. Since 1994, over 100 SFSU students and volunteers have worked on the project with some of the students using their research findings to curate museum exhibitions, present at conferences, and develop K-12 curricular activity kits and workshops. SFSU retention and K-12 outreach activities of the Ching Project are partially supported by the Asian American Access and Retention Project.

Community Connections Program-Chinatown Wellness Village Project
Coordinators: Malcolm Collier, Mai Nhung Le, and Grace Yoo
The Asian American Studies Department is in partnership with the NICOS Chinese Health Coalition to develop the Community Connections Program of the Chinatown Wellness Village Project. The overarching goal of the project is to improve the health and wellness of San Francisco Chinatown community members with an internship program where AAS students will be involved in the community in a meaningful manner. (The acronym, NICOS, stands for the first initials of the five founding members: North East Medical Services, Chinese Community Health Care Association (IPA), Chinese Hospital, On Lok Senior Health Services, and Self-Help for the Elderly).

Filipino American Experience Research Project (FAX-RP)
Coordinator: Daniel P. Gonzales
The Filipino American Experience Research Project has enabled students, under Asian American Studies faculty guidance, to conduct research on the history of Filipinos in the Americas and to make it easily accessible to the public. An average of 130 students per semester have participated in the FAX-RP and have functioned in various capacities ranging from co-directors and primary source researchers, to course project managers, publication editors, oral history interviewers, AV-technicians/operators, database and copy editors, and transcribers. This project is partially funded by the Associated Students, Inc., through its Instructionally Related Activities Fund.

Pin@y Educational Partnership (PEP)
Coordinator: Allyson Tintiangco-Cubales
Pin@y Educational Partnership (PEP) is sponsored by the department's Asian American Access and Retention Project. PEP partners between high-achieving AAS students who have an interest in pursuing a career in education, and Filipino high school and community college students who are primarily from low-income backgrounds. The main objective of the program is to outreach to students who are under-performing their potential. PEP develops and implements a critical pedagogy which includes a cultural curriculum that focuses on Filipina/o American Studies (including literature, dancing, and art), specific subject tutoring, one-on-one mentoring, college counseling, and leadership/self-determination training. In 2001-02, PEP piloted an AAS course, "Filipino American Experiences," at Balboa High School. It is the first Filipino American experience course taught in the San Francisco public school system, and is the first partnership between a university and high school that practices a unique pedagogy allowing college students, both undergraduate and graduate, to teach an entire semester-long high school course.

Southeast Asian Outreach Project (SAOP)
Coordinator: Minh-Hoa Ta
The Southeast Asian Outreach Project is sponsored by the Asian American Access and Retention Project. The main objective of the program is to outreach to Southeast Asian American students of Cambodian, Laotian, and Vietnamese ancestry who are not achieving educational success and who are underrepresented in post-secondary education. SAOP partners with educational institutions and community organizations to develop and implement recruiting programs. Through outreach activities such as mentorships, presentations, and campus tours, SAOP has provided middle school, high school, and community college students with exposure to and interaction with San Francisco State University.

Vietnamese American Studies Center (VASC)
Coordinators: Mai Nhung Le, Isabelle Thuy Pelaud, and Minh Hoa Ta
The Vietnamese American Studies Center fosters research on the Vietnamese American community in the United States and on issues related to adaptation and integration processes. One of its goals is to build bridges between American academic institutions, local Vietnamese American organizations, and universities in Vietnam. Educational projects underway include international exchange programs with institutions of higher learning in Vietnam. VASC recently acquired the Hoang Lien Book Collection that includes hundreds of books in English and Vietnamese. For an appointment to visit the library, please call 415-338-6169.

The Yellow Journal
Faculty Advisors: Jeffery P. Chan, Malcolm Collier, and Lorraine Dong
The Yellow Journal published its first issue in 1983 and has continued as a student publication of the Asian American Studies Department. The journal is written and produced by students enrolled in Asian American Studies classes, and showcases the diversity of AAS students. It is partially funded by the Associated Studies, Inc., through grants from the Instructionally Related Activities General Fund.