Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders in U.S. Higher Education Facts, Not Fiction: Setting the Recor

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Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders in U.S.
Higher Education Facts, Not Fiction Setting
the Record Straight

• Robert Teranishi
• New York University
• National Commission on Asian American
• and Pacific Islander Research in Education

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AAPI Population and Percent AAPI of the Total
Population,
1990 to 2020
AAPI Population (in millions)
Percent AAPI
Data Source U.S. Bureau of Census
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Asian American and Pacific Islander Ethnic
Categories
Data Source U.S. Bureau of Census
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English Language Ability among AAPIs, 2000
Asian Americans
Pacific Islanders
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Percentage of AAPIs Below Poverty, 1999
Asian Americans
Pacific Islanders
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WESTMINSTER, CALIFORNIA Vietnamese American Commu
nity Percent of Adults with High School or Les
s Percent of Adults Who Speak English Less
than Very Well
54.5 67.2
BROOKLYN, NEW YORK Chinese American Community
Percent of Population Foreign-Born Percent of
Children
Who Speak English Less than Very Well
76.8 63.5
ST. PAUL, MINNESOTA Hmong American Community P
ercent of Adults with High School or Less Perc
ent of Families With Children That Are Below Po
verty
65.4 33.4
WAIANAE, HAWAII Native Hawaiian Community P
ercent of Adults with High School or Less Perc
ent of Families With Children That Are Below Po
verty
78.5 32.1
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AAPI Enrollment in U.S. Higher Education
by Institutional Type, 2000
National Center for Education Statistics, IPEDS,
2006
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Change in AAPI Total Enrollment
by Institutional Type, 1990-2000
Public Two-Year
73.3
53.4
Private Four-Year
42.2
Public Four-Year
0
10
20
30
40
50
60
70
80
90
National Center for Education Statistics, IPEDS,
2006
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SAT I Mean Scores and Standard Deviations for
AAPIs and All Students
All Students
AAPIs
Mean Score
Whites AAPIs SAT I Verbal 528 507
(All Takers, 2004) (100) (121) SAT I Ma
th 531 577 (All Takers, 2004) (102)
(123)
Mean Score () (Standard Deviation)
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A Call for Action

• We need to collect and report data in a way that
  allows for further deconstruction of the
  variation within the AAPI racial category (by
  ethnicity, nationality, immigration history, and
  language background).
• We need to hire more Asian American and Pacific
  Islander faculty, staff, consultants, and
  researchers to identify and guide work in
  education at every level, on behalf of all
  groups, including Asian Americans and Pacific
  Islanders.
• Professionals in the K-12 and higher education
  sectors need to connect with AAPI community
  leaders and organizations to enhance the cultural
  capacity of our institutions and improve student
  outcomes.
• We need to modify our desired learning outcomes
  and provide curricula that reflect Asian American
  and Pacific Islander history, art, literature,
  and culture.

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National Commission on Asian American
and Pacific Islander Research in Education

• We encourage educators, advocates, and
  scholars to go to the project web site located
  at http//www.nyu.edu/projects/care for
  additional resources, including
• an extensive annotated bibliography
• a list of activities by the commission related to
  the project
  
• research that examines key trends related to
  AAPIs in education