Race Consideration in University Admissions: Facts and Myths
VIEW EVENT DETAILSIn Collaboration with Asian Pacific American Heritage Association
Each year potential university students submerge themselves in the muddy waters of the application process and university admissions counselors are flooded with applicants. How universities decide who is admitted and who is thrown back to the sea has been the subject of numerous articles and debates. In particular, questions about racial and ethnic bias have dominated recent discourse and made their way again to the courts. To provide clarity, we invite you to a panel discussion with Wall Street journalist Jeff Yang and author Vijay Chokal-Ingam on the admissions process and considerations of race and ethnicity. Fox 26 reporter Angela Chen will moderate the program
About the Speakers
Vijay Jojo Chokal-Ingam, CFA, MBA is a college and graduate school admissions consultant for Interview SOS in Los Angeles. He is currently writing a book, Almost Black: The True Story of An Indian American Who Got into Medical School Pretending to Be An African American, detailing his experiences with affirmative action. Vijay is a graduate of UCLA Anderson, a business school that does not practice affirmative action in admissions.
Jeff Yang is a columnist for the Wall Street Journal Online and a regular contributor to CNN, NPR and Quartz, and the author of a number bestselling books, including Eastern Standard Time; Once Upon a Time in China; I Am Jackie Chan (the action icon's official autobiography); and the graphic novels Secret Identities and Shattered. However, he might currently be best known as the father of Hudson Yang, who stars in ABC's groundbreaking Asian American sitcom Fresh Off the Boat.
About the Moderator
Angela Chen is a news reporter at KRIV FOX 26 in Houston. A native of Los Angeles, Chen began her career as a news writer and associate producer at KUSI-TV in San Diego. She later moved to New York to continue her studies and worked for NY1 News, where her top stories included the destruction by Hurricane Sandy and the aftermath of Private Danny Chen’s death. Chen also worked in Bakersfield, California for KBAK/KBFX as an evening reporter and for XETV 6 News in San Diego as its night reporter. Her most recent position before moving to Houston was as a morning reporter and fill-in anchor for KOLO 8 News in Reno, Nevada. She is fluent in Mandarin Chinese and holds a master’s in journalism from Columbia University and a bachelor’s in literature/writing and psychology from the University of California, San Diego.
Education and outreach programs at Asia Society Texas Center are made possible through generous funding from the George and Mary Josephine Hamman Foundation and Nieman Marcus. Additional support provided by the Friends of Education & Outreach at Asia Society Texas Center.
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