Southeast Asian Resource Center Holds Strategy Meeting on Capitol Hill

On Monday, June 25th the Southeast Asian Resource Action Center (SEARAC) held its Strategy Meeting at the National Education Association on Capitol Hill. For this educational event, SEARAC brought together Asian Pacific American organizations in order to educate and discuss with them the importance of potential legislation which would turn nearly one hundred American colleges and universities into Asian American Serving Institutions, much like Historically Black Colleges and Universities and Tribal Colleges. With this designation schools would receive a specified government stipend to finance the education of these students.

Alicia Simmons, Congressional Outreach Director, spoke to the group of influential Asian American organizations and leaders and discussed our work and outreach initiatives to the Asian American community and its young leaders. The Foundation also lent its support to these organizations as a networking resource on Capitol Hill. Other Participants in the session included representatives from the Asian and Pacific Islander American Scholarship Fund, Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus, Japanese American Citizen's League, Orthodox Church in America, and National Education Association.

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