An executive order designed to increase Asian students’ college participation has prompted Cal State Long Beach to undertake increased efforts to aid its Cambodian population.
The Asian American Pacific Islander Initiative is system-wide across Cal State University colleges and works to increase awareness and resource access for the communities it serves.
“It’s something the chancellor asked us to do,” Associated Students Inc. President Lucy Nguyen said. “It’s to increase the amount of East Asians and Pacific Islanders in college.”
Each school has a focus demographic that it works to specifically accommodate. These demographics are based on each school’s particular population.
“Our focus at Long Beach is the Cambodian population,” Nguyen said.
Other populations targeted by the initiative include Filipino, Vietnamese, Samoan, Tongan, Marshallese, Hawaiian, Hmong and Laotian.
CSULB is hosting a “Journey to Success” workshop for Cambodian and other Asian students and parents. The event will include seminars detailing how to get into and pay for college, as well as requirements and resources for doing so. It will also feature booths with officials from many local colleges and universities.
The “Journey to Success” event takes place on Oct. 8 from 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. in the University Student Union ballrooms.
“The target is particularly high school students,” Nguyen said. “We have to tell them, ‘These are the resources you have to use. These are the grades you have to get.'”
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