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Asian American Resource and Cultural Center
The Asian American Resource and Cultural Center officially opened in spring of 2005 as a result of dedicated student efforts to ensure that UIC support the needs of Asian Americans. 20% of the total UIC student body is Asian American while 13% of faculty and staff is Asian or Asian American. AARCC is also dedicated to educating the general campus about this diverse community.
Visit the AARCC website.
Asian American Studies
The Asian American Studies (ASAM) Program at UIC was officially
established in 2010 and is a product of a student-led movement that began
in 1991. Asian American Studies explores the histories, identities,
cultural expressions, social and community formations, and politics of
people of Asian ancestry (including but not limited to those from East
Asia, South Asia, and Southeast Asia) in the United States. The Asian
American Studies Program at UIC will create opportunities in the
classroom, in scholarship, and through campus and community advocacy for
students to comprehend Asian American experiences as fundamental to the
fabric of U.S. society and as
linked to the experiences of other communities of color in the United
States as well as Asian diasporas globally. Program courses will provide a
transformative education that is interdisciplinary in approach that
reflects the program’s four thematic foci:Transnational/diasporic studies
which examines Asian migrations and diasporic communities in
relation to larger global processes of empire, nation-building, and
globalization; Intersectional Race/Gender studies, which contextualizes
Asian American experiences in the historical and contemporary interplays
of race, gender, and other social markers in the United States; Community
Engagement; and Activism and Social Justice.
- Asian American Studies Director: Mark Chiang (mchiang@uic.edu)
Visit the ASAM website.
Office for Access and Equity
809 South Marshfield Avenue, Room 717 (M/C 602), Chicago, Illinois
60612-7207
Telephone: (312) 996-8670 Fax: (312) 413-0055 TTY: (312) 413-3035. http://www.uic.edu/depts/oae/
The Office for Access and Equity
• Represents the campus to federal and state agencies as
well as to the higher education community on issues related to
affirmative action, equal opportunity, harassment, and diversity.
• Collaborates in the development of the campus's Affirmative
Action Plan.
• Assists in the recruitment and retention of women, men
and women of color, persons with disabilities, and other under-represented
groups.
• Offers training in sexual harassment awareness, AA/OAE,
the Americans with Disabilities Act, and other related topics
as needed.
• Provides administrative support to the Chancellor's Status
Committees.
• Extends technical advice to faculty, students, staff, and
administrators on diversity issues as well as on problems regarding
discrimination and harassment.
• Counsels faculty, staff, and students who believe they
may have been subjected to harassment or discrimination.
• Investigates complaints of unlawful discrimination in admission,
employment, and access as well as treatment in UIC-sponsored programs
and activities; also investigates claims of sexual harassment
where a formal complaint is filed; makes recommendations to responsible
University representatives as appropriate.
The Chancellor's Committees of UIC
The UIC Chancellor's Status Committees are administered through the Office for Access and Equity: