AANAPISI
MCC was awarded a multi-year Asian American and Native American Pacific Islander-Serving Institutions (AANAPISI) grant to support Asian and Asian-American student success. The curriculum development throughout this grant builds on the long-standing and robust association with the Asian Studies Development Program (ASDP), part of the East-West Center (EWC).
In collaboration with ASDP, ten MCC Faculty Fellows in Year 1-2 are participating in structured monthly faculty development seminars and multi-day workshops hosted in conjunction with local institutions. Twenty Faculty Ambassadors in Years 2-3 are participating in activities at a smaller scale.
Faculty are creating modules on Asian/Cambodian themes that will be embedded into courses across the general education curriculum. These modules are designed to raise challenging and engaging themes and connect the study of various disciplines to the current conditions that may be seen in Asia and in the Cambodian American experiences in Lowell that so directly affect many MCC students. The curriculum LibGuide is available for use across disciplines.
Year 1 Activities
March
Year 2 Activities
September
October
- Melissa Ludltk and Touching Home in China: In Search of Missing Girlhoods
- WGBH and GroundTruth Project on the Cambodian Music Listening Event: The Drummer and the Protégé
November
December
February
- Three Stones Gallery: Views from the East (Fulbright and AANAPISI artists featured)
- Workshop on Imagined Communities by Benedict Arnold
March
- ASDP National Conference in Washington, D.C.
- Shelley Hawks - the Art of Resistance
- Roger Ames - Confucian China in a Changing Global Order
- Arn Chorn Pond - From Genocide to Cultural Renewal in Cambodia
April
Heartstrings
By artists from the Khmer Magic Music Bus
11am- 12:30pm
Tuesday, October 30
Federal Building Assembly Room
50 Kearney Sq, Lowell