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 year the JACL has conducted workshops at the following conferences and universities:
- 2006 National Asian American Student Conference (Northwestern University)
- 2007 Midwest Asian American Student Union Conference (University of Illinois)
- Seattle University
- University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
In 2008, workshops are scheduled at the following:
- East Coast Asian American Student Union Conference (Cornell University)
- Midwest Asian American Student Union (University of Kansas)
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
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.