Town Hall on AAST Expansion Efforts featured in the DBK

On Tuesday, March 14, 2023, the Diamondback published an article, “UMD Asian American studies program holds town hall about creating major”.

Members of the University of Maryland’s Asian American studies program, the Asian American Student Union and other campus community members are working to expand the current Asian American studies minor into a major — an effort that has been in the works for decades.

The department and student union hosted a town hall meeting Wednesday to discuss the next steps in creating a major from feedback from a student survey. Janelle Wong, the Asian American studies program director, said the relationship between the program and the AASU is something unique to this university that she has not seen before.

“This curriculum, this minor, and the whole Asian American studies program is really the result of student activism,” Wong said.

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