Research Project
Asian American and Native American Pacific Islander-Serving Institutions (AANAPISI)
Students during the 2015 CCSAA Townhall on AANAPISI Impact
- Principal Investigator
- Su, Karen
- Funding Source
- U.S. Department of Education
Abstract
UIC became the first Asian American and Native American Pacific Islander-Serving Institution (AANAPISI) in the Midwest in 2010 and designated UIC as a Minority Serving Institution. Since then, the UIC AANAPISI Initiative has received four grants, totalling $7.1 million, from the U.S. Department of Education, to enhance the capacity of UIC to serve Asian American and Pacific Islander students. The UIC AANAPISI Initiative has helped to establish or strengthen the Asian American Resource and Cultural Center, Global Asian Studies, and the new Asian American Student Academic Program and many other supports on campus.
The UIC AANAPISI Initiative supports the recruitment, retention, and graduation of Asian American and Pacific Islander students at the University of Illinois at Chicago. It is fully funded by the U.S. Department of Education’s Asian American and Native American Pacific Islander-Serving Institutions (AANAPISI) Program, which started after the federal designation was created through legislation in 2007. The umbrella term “Asian American and Native American Pacific Islander” refers to Asian American students (with origins from East Asia, South Asia, and Southeast Asia including the Philippines) and Native Hawaiian and other Pacific Islander students (with origins from Hawaii, Guam, Samoa, Northern Mariana Islands, and other Pacific Islands.) The federal funding supports many first-generation and low-income students in college.