| 1969 |
- Muslim Students Association starts.
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| 1978 |
- Vietnamese Student Association at Chicago Circle Campus is founded.
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| 1981 |
- Indian Students Association starts.
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| 1984 |
- Korean Graduate Student Association starts.
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| 1986 |
- The Organization of Asian Students (OAS), the first pan-Asian student organization, is founded and plans social and cultural activities.
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| 1991 |
- Asian American Collegiate Organization (AACO) is founded with political interests and begins to rally for an Asian American Studies program.
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| 1993 |
- Hindu Student Council starts.
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| 1994 |
- AACO and OAS merge to form Asian American students in Alliance (AASIA).
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| 1995 |
- The national Asian Pacific American Medical Students Association (APAMSA) conference is co-hosted at UIC and APAMSA becomes active on campus.
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| 1996 |
- Students Promoting Asian American Concerns (SPAAC), an ad-hoc committee of AASIA, is formed to seek the creation of a Chancellor’s Committee on the Status of Asian Americans.
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- Indian Graduate Student Association starts.
- Forever Together in Christ becomes Asian American Intervarsity (AAIV).
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| 1997 |
- Filipinos in Alliance (FIA) is established.
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- Chi Sigma Tau, the first Asian American-interest fraternity at UIC is established.
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| 1998 |
- alpha Kappa Delta Phi, the first Asian American-interest sorority at UIC (and in Illinois) is established.
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| 1999 |
- The Chinese Students and Scholars Friendship Association is founded.
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- The student-led Coalition for Asian American Studies (CAAS) is founded to lobby for an Asian American Studies program, a resource and cultural center, and an academic support network.
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- Approval for a Chancellor’s Committee on the Status of Asian Americans (CCSAA) is granted.
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| 2000 |
- CAAS coordinates a campus rally to express demand for courses and support services for Asian American students.
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- CAAS organizes the first Asian American Awareness Week. Programs focus on education of Asian American issues, unity among Asian American students, and empowerment.
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- Visiting Professor Rocio Davis is hired for one year to teach Asian American literature courses. History offers an Asian American History course, Sociology begins offering “Sociology of Asia and Asian Americans,” and a Hindi/Urdu course is offered as a result of persistent student demand and petitions.
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| 2001 |
- Asian Pharmacy Association starts.
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- Rocio Davis helps to organize the first Asian American academic conference held at UIC entitled "Asian American Writing: Social History and Performance." The two-day conference features the work of nine writers and scholars of Asian American literature.
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- CAAS expands Asian American Awareness programming from a week to a month.
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- CAAS becomes the Asian American Coalition Committee (AACC) is formed to broaden its focus and unify politically-oriented Asian American student organizations.
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- AACC submits a proposal for the Asian American Resource and Cultural Center to Provost Charlotte Tate and it is approved.
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| 2002 |
- South Asian Medical Students Association (SAMSA) is founded.
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- AACC coordinates the second Asian American Awareness Month.
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- The English Department hires Mark Chiang and Helen Jun as UIC’s first tenure-track Asian Americanist faculty. Additional plans to conduct a search for an Asian Americanist faculty member in History and for a director for the Center are delayed due to a hiring freeze set in February.
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- AACC is recognized for its long-time campus efforts around Asian American issues at UIC with Chicago’s Asian American Institute's "Milestone Maker of the Year" Award and with UIC's Student Organization of the Year Award.
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- AACC coordinates the first Asiantation Daytime Fair and Night Vision performance to provide orientation resources about UIC’s Asian American community to incoming students.
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| 2003 |
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- Provost Michael Tanner reinitiates plans to move ahead with the Asian American Resource & Cultural Center. A search for a Center director begins in the fall.
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- The first AAA Month Planning Committee is formed, made up of Asian American student organizations and the Chancellor’s Committee on the Status of Asian Americans. It organizes the third annual Asian American Awareness Month.
- Muslim Student Association receives UIC's Commitment to Diversity Award.
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| 2004 |
- KAUSE (Korean Americans United Serving Equality) is established.
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- LiNK (Liberty in North Korea) starts a chapter at UIC.
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- UIC hires Karen Su as the first Director for the Asian American Resource and Cultural Center. Renovations begin in Taft Hall for the Center’s offices.
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| 2005 |
- Vietnamese Student Association is reestablished.
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- Delta Phi Omega, a South Asian-interest sorority, is formed.
- Beta Beta Beti and Feiyang Chinese Christian Fellowship are formed.
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- AACC submits a proposal to establish an Asian American Studies program to the Provost at a landmark meeting between students, administration, deans and department heads.
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- The Asian American Resource and Cultural Center holds its official grand opening celebration in Taft Hall as part of Asian American Awareness Month.
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- The first all Asian American student organizations leadership retreat held.
- Filipinos in Alliance receives UIC's Commitment to Diversity Award.
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| 2006 |
- AACC holds a Speak Out in the quad to rally support for the establishment of an Asian American Studies Program.
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- The first Introduction to Asian American Studies course is taught and the class presents the first ASAM Expo, an academic fair featuring student research projects from the class.
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- A UIC chapter of the Asian Pacific American Graduate Student Organization (APAGSO), a graduate student organization with an interest in Asian American Studies, is formed.
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- Asian American Student Organizations Leadership Council established.
- AARCC convenes the Asian American Studies Advisory Council (AASAC) to provide input on Asian American Studies initiatives on campus.
- Kevin Kumashiro joins UIC faculty as Associate Professor in the College of Education's Department of Policy Studies.
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| 2007 |
- The “ASAM” rubric, a rubric to name classes with Asian American Studies content, will go into effect in Timetable. There is still no minor or program of Asian American Studies.
- UIC's APASGO chapter hosts the second national APASGO graduate student conference on Asian American Studies.
- LiNK becomes NK Peace and the National Asian American Society of Accountants is established.
- The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences successfully hires two additional Asian Americanist faculty: Anna Guevarra as Assistant Professor in Sociology and Gender and Women's Studies, and Eric Tang as Assistant Professor in African American Studies.
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