May is Asian Pacific American Heritage Month

This year's theme is: "Leadership to Meet the Challenges of a Changing World."

Prior to 1990, the first 10 days of May were celebrated as Asian/Pacific Heritage Week. In 1990, President George H. W. Bush designated the entire month of May to be Asian Pacific American Heritage Month. May was chosen to commemorate the immigration of the first Japanese to the United States on May 7, 1843, and to mark the anniversary of the completion of the transcontinental railroad on May 10, 1869. The majority of workers who laid the tracks were Chinese immigrants.

Please join us in celebrating the rich heritage of the Asian and Pacific Islander cultures!

Asian Population: Census 2000 Brief
Asian Indian, Bangladeshi, Bhutanese, Burmese, Cambodian, Chinese (except Taiwanese), Filipino, Hmong, Indo Chinese, Indonesian, Iwo Jiman, Japanese, Korean, Laotian, Malaysian, Maldivian, Nepalese, Okinawan, Pakistani, Singaporean, Sri Lankan, Taiwanese, Thai, Vietnamese, Other Asian, not specified. You can read more about this group by downloading the 2000 Census Brief here.

Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander Population: Census 2000 Brief
Polynesian: Native Hawaiian, Samoan, Tongan, Tahitian, Tokelauan, Polynesian, not specified; Micronesian: Guamanian or Chamorro, Mariana Islander, Saipanese, Palauan, Carolinian, Kosraean, Pohnpeian, Chuukese, Yapese, Marshallese, I-Kiribati, Micronesian, not specified; Melanesian: Fijian, Papua New Guinean, Solomon Islander, Ni-Vanuatu, Melanesian, not specified; Other Pacific Islander. Read more about this group by downloading a PDF of the 2000 Census Brief here.

For additional information, please visit the Diversity Resources, Office of Campus Diversity and Compliance Web site.