Campus Outreach
The JACL is committed to developing a pipeline of future leaders by assisting Asian Pacific American students to fulfill their leadership potential for the betterment of the Asian Pacific American community and the community at-large. The JACL identifies trains and provides networking opportunities for potential Asian Pacific American leaders by providing instructional workshops, national networking opportunities and by exposing them to the experiences of community leaders and policy-makers.
Campus Workshops on Hate Crimes
The JACL conducts campus workshops on hate crimes as a way of addressing expressions and incidents of anti-Asian sentiment at colleges and universities.
The college experience brings young adults together from widely diverse backgrounds of race, religion, ethnicity and sexual orientation. College life offers young adults new freedoms with relatively few restrictions on their behavior. But the freedoms that accompany this new independence also make colleges a high-risk environment for behaviors where attitudes reflecting bigotry may be expressed more readily.
In the past few years the JACL has conducted workshops at the following conferences and universities:
- 2008 Midwest Asian American Students Union Conference (University of Kansas)
- 2008 East Coast Asian American Students Union Conference (Cornell University)
- 2007 Midwest Asian American Student Union Conference (University of Illinois)
- 2006 National Asian American Student Conference (Northwestern University)
- University of California - Riverside
- Seattle University
- University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
For information on scheduling a JACL workshop on hate crimes at your college or university, contact the JACL Midwest Office at 773.728.7170 or Midwest@jacl.org.
Resource Materials
Anti-Hate Newsletter: Winter 2008 edition
This newsletter provides FBI hate crime statistics, regular reports on hate crimes and hate incidents all over the country, and a new feature cover story every quarter, ranging from Internet hate sites to commentary on the Virginia Tech shootings to interviews with Asian American scholars. Click here to download a copy.
Filling the Pipeline: Asian American Leadership and Empowerment
This 21-page booklet provides basic information for students to become involved on campus and in their communities.