The Pacific Islander Access project Blog

Pacific Islanders are underrepresented in higher education, but they're excluded from many academic programs for underrepresented minorities. Our goal is to change that.

Friday, March 25, 2011

Two Reasons: How "Asian Pacific Islander" data hides Pacific Islander Underrepresentation

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Two posts ago, I explained that since 1997, there has been a federal policy recognizing that Pacific Islanders (or "Native Hawaiians a...
Sunday, March 13, 2011

Don't Blame Asians

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One of the themes in our last post , as well as the next few entries , is that grouping Pacific Islanders with Asians in the "Asian Pac...
Sunday, March 06, 2011

Pacific Islander Americans are ... Pacific Islander Americans

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In an earlier post , I mentioned three factors related to the exclusion of Pacific Islanders from most academic programs for underrepresente...
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Pacific Islanders are underrepresented in higher education, but they are excluded from many underrepresented minority (URM) academic programs. We are a 501(c)(3) nonprofit corporation focused on calling attention to and solving this problem - while serving as a resource for Pacific Islander scholars and URM academic programs who want to connect with each other.
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