Princeton University
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Farng-Yi Foo ][ Students on campus remain ignorant to the many efforts past students have made for ethnic studies. It has been rare to hear "ethnic studies" from another student on campus. Many of the organizations that have lead the ethnic studies progress are currently defunct. I have compiled a timeline for students from other campuses to understand the progression that Princeton has made. Furthermore, I have only been able to dig up information for Asian American studies.

1985- Spring- Late Professor James T.C. Liu (Department of History) teaches HIS 410-Asians in America.(last time offered and has not been listed in Course Offerings until 1991-2)

1988 -Students meet with new president Hal Shapiro and establish their "long range goal to have Asian American Studies taught on a permanent basis at Princeton."

1989- Students for Asian American Studies organize student-initiated seminar taught by Betty Lee Sung (City College of New York)

1990- Paula Chow, International Center Director, and Eva Grossman, Associate Dean of the College, write the 1990 Report on Asian Pacific American Students. (urging the University to "encourage departments to offer courses focused on the Asian Pacific American experience."

1992- Response to '92 L.A. Riots, students held a large rally in Firestone Plaza. Student pressure caused university administrators to compile a Report on Campus Race Relations (vice-provost Ruth Simmons released report in March 1993)

-Fall - Asian American Student Task Force established.

- Fall - Asian American Student Task Force established. Ruth Simmons' Report caused President Shapiro to create committee to "take a broader look at how the curriculum deals with diversity in all of its dimensions."

1993- March '93 Report of the Asian American Student Task Force recommends university "Create a tenure-track position in an academic department of program for a specialist in Asian American Studies."

-November Gary Okhiro (Director of Asian American Studies Program at Cornell) speaks.
-April Ronal Takaki (Professor of Ethnic Studies at UC Berkely) speaks. "Crisscrossed Paths of African American and Asian Americans."

1994- Fall- Asian American Students form coalition with Latino students to work jointly for Latino and Asian American Studies.

1994-December- Students and faculty meet. (Availability of course development funds and funds for visiting professor)

Spring 1995-Frank Odo '61 (Director of Ethnic Studies at University of Hawaii, Manoa) teaches AMS 318 Asians in America.

1994-April- Asian American Student Task Force frustrated with little administration progress submitted open letter to the Princeton University Board of Trustees reiterated their recommendation that the University create "a tenure position in any humanities or social science department fort a specialist in Asian American Studies."

-April- Stephen Sumida (U Michigan) speaks on Asian American literature.

-May-The Committee on Diversity and Liberal Education (co-chaired by Dean Nancy Malkiel and Professor Cornel West) released report.

-June- President Shapiro, responding to the AASTF open letter, indicated there might be "the addition to the curriculum of significant content related to Asian American life."

1995-April- Students feel they had "exhausted the institutional channels for implementing change." Students still requesting basic timeline for increasing library holdings/scheduling for visiting professors not completed for following Fall.

A group of seventeen students occupied 1 Nassau Hall. (trying to make diversifying courses a priority)

Students obtained University's first written public commitment development in the areas of Asian American and Latino Studies. (greater library holdings/6 million dollars to hire 2-4 faculty with expertise in Asian American Studies, the creation of a search committee for a faculty position in the area of Asian American Studies, and the creation of a search for a history faculty position in Caribbean studies to contribute to Latino Studies)

1996 -
University promises updates-
-search to appoint faculty member in Asian American Studies completed. Howver, current professor will not likely be offered tenure and is on sabbatical for the 2001-2002 Fall and Spring semesters.

-Professor Alejandro Portes appointed to Department of Sociology
-Professor Richard Tutishas appointed Carribean Studies expert in Department of History.

-three undergraduates and one graduate student appointed to the Task Force on Diversity in Fall 1995

-visiting professors (Peter Kwong, Gary Okhiro, Frank Bonilla, and Clara Garcia-Ayluardo) all taught classes.

1996 -Fall- one Asian American course and no Latino Studies courses..