The survey will be released on March 7 to all AANHPI students on campus via mass email and consist of a community needs assessment created by an AANHPI student advisory board of all involved members of the research project. “We are excited to hear from more students about their experiences, needs and ideas for solutions,”...
UC Riverside is allocating the $1.1 million to eight teams throughout the UC system. The grants are funded out of a $10 million allocation to AAPI Data provided by the Legislature in 2021. These funds were part of the $166.5 million Asian and Pacific Islander Equity Budget approved by Gov. Gavin Newsom. The research teams...
SAN MATEO, Calif.--( BUSINESS WIRE)--In the next two weeks, Asian American communities face two major milestone moments pertaining to mass gun violence. March 16 is the anniversary of the 2021 Atlanta spa shootings, when a 21-year old white man murdered eight people—including six Asian American women. March 21 marks the two-month commemoration of a mass...
In 2009, the BLU Education Foundation was founded in response to the challenges families with limited income and limited opportunities face in Riverside and San Bernardino counties. BLU now offers several civic engagement and education programs with the goal of building healthy, productive communities in the region. In its Inland Empire Black Agenda report, a...
Four UCLA research teams were awarded a total of more than $560,000 in grants from the AAPI Data project at UC Riverside. The awards will support social science research on the needs of California’s Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander communities. The grants are funded by a $10 million allocation to AAPI Data provided...
A recent UCLA study found that the COVID-19 pandemic led to economic hardship, negative health outcomes and rising incidents of hate and violence for Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders. The study, which was conducted by researchers from the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research, AAPI Data and researchers at UC Riverside, aimed to dig deeper...
Food and housing security — or a lack thereof — are a growing focus of awareness and action on college campuses. Research on basic needs in a college environment, though, has not kept pace, leaving significant gaps in knowledge about who is using such services and why, or why not. Hoping to help fill those...
On February 10th, the University of California in Riverside hosted the Southern California Youth Futures Summit. The summit brought together young visionaries from across the region to discuss the most pressing issues facing Southern California and the world. The goal of the summit was to empower young people to shape their future and make a...
One of the most striking statistics to emerge from recent electoral campaign cycles in the United States is the marked increase in the voter turnout of Asian Americans. Following the 2018 midterm elections, the U.S. Current Population Survey estimated that the voting rate among adult citizens belonging to the Asian American community rose from 28...
One of the most striking statistics to emerge from recent electoral campaign cycles in the United States is the marked increase in the voter turnout of Asian Americans. Following the 2018 midterm elections, the U.S. Current Population Survey estimated that the voting rate among adult citizens belonging to the Asian American community rose from 28...
Riverside, CA - On February 10, 2023 the Southern California Youth Futures Summit brought together young leaders, thought leaders, and local representatives to address the biggest challenges facing Southern California and the world. The summit, hosted by the Center for Social Innovation at University of California Riverside and the California 100 initiative, showcased keynote speeches...
Biden and Harris have focused on South Asians and the Indian community as well, with Biden releasing an agenda for the Indian American community prior to the 2020 election and both him and the vice president including cultural celebrations as part of administration events. Numbers illustrate how Asian American voters, and Indian voters, can be...
After Haley’s announcement, some are eager for more Asian American Republicans to join — or rejoin — the political fray. Haley is a “sharp, bright” person, said M.R. Rangaswami, a software executive from San Francisco who founded the nonprofit Indiaspora to encourage Indian American political involvement. “This is fabulous for our community, that we’re being...
Healthcare President Biden committed to making prescription drug prices affordable for all, and used the high cost of insulin as an example of how the recent Inflation Reduction Act will guarantee more affordable drug prices through Medicare. Given the unfortunate reality that South Asians are at a disproportionately higher risk for diabetes, President Biden addressed...
About 350 Inland Empire high school students participated in the SoCal Youth Futures Summit at the University of California, Riverside, where they envisioned what they wanted for their futures and outlined steps to achieve their visions. The event on Feb. 10 featured townhall type talks by elected officials, including California Assembly members Corey Jackson and...
During the first Southern California Youth Futures Summit, students discussed policies and future solutions to problems facing society in the daylong event hosted by California 100 and UCR’s Center for Social Innovation, a news release states. Their suggestions will be shared in Sacramento during California 100’s Statewide Youth Futures Summit in March. Read More Here
Riverside, CA - the IE Data Summit on Environment, Climate, and Energy, hosted in partnership with CSI-UCR and IE RISE , took place Wednesday, February 1, 2023 via Zoom. This was the third in a series of IE Data Summits taking place as quarterly events with rotating topics. Convening over 110 participants online, this quarter’s...
Despite being less than one-and-half per cent of the US population, Indian Americans are more active and participative in the countrys democratic political process, Karthick Ramakrishnan, a professor at the University of California, has said.The professor of public policy and political science observed that Indian Americans, as a group, are growing fast growing and tend...
Within the Asians, people of Korean origin reported the highest level of fear of gun violence, with 70 percent saying they were very worried or somewhat worried about it. This was followed by 66 percent of people of Filipino and Chinese origin, and 62 percent of people of Vietnamese origin, according to the report. Several...
