Happy fall semester from the AAPI Center!

Greetings from the Asian American Pacific Islander (AAPI) Center! Opening our doors to the USF community in spring 2024, we look forward to continued collaborations and extend our gratitude to campus partners who volunteered at events, helped promote our programs to students, and played key roles in our formation.

We launched our first Faculty Learning Community (FLC) this fall: Who is included in the “Asian American” community? Our 2024–25 FLC, facilitated by Saera Khan, seeks to discern the new descriptive term APIMEDA (Asian, Pacific Islander, Middle Eastern, Desi American) and examine the unique histories and common identities of this and other related identifiers. Meeting regularly since September, we look forward to engaging with new scholarship and exploring the Bay Area through the semester to explore the breadth of APIMEDA diversity!

Thanks to the Tracy Seeley Center for Teaching Excellence (CTE) for their support!

Learn more about our FLC on the CTE website »

The Staff and Leadership Learning Communities (SLLCs) are semester-long programs of training, dialogue, and reflection for staff and administrative leadership to enhance practices in supporting USF’s AAPI students. Our first SLLC, facilitated by Kahanu Salavea, is launching in early October. Through engaging with new scholarship, guest speakers, and community immersions, we’re excited to dialogue about how we can better serve Pacific Islander students at USF!

Learn more about SLLCs on our website »

Our first cohort of AAPI Student Leadership Fellows began this fall with the creation of a new 2-unit course on AAPI Leadership (CDS 390). Students in the course are exploring social justice leadership frameworks and case studies of AAPI leadership, past and present. All AAPI student fellows will have the opportunity to engage in a paid internship in the spring semester.

Learn more about our student programs »

On exhibition from now – November 2024
Thacher Gallery, Gleeson Library

Learn more about the artists in the exhibition »

Events taking place throughout October 2024
Co-presented with the Yuchengco Philippine Studies Program, Kasamahan, and the Cultural Centers.

Learn more and RSVP for events »

Since launching the AAPI Center in February 2024, we attended national higher education conferences and held events to commemorate Asian Pacific American Heritage Month with the USF community. We then celebrated the arrival of the 2024–25 academic year with orientation programs. Join us this fall at more events!

14th Annual Critical Diversity Studies Forum: Called to Solidarity (September 2024)

Community Dinner with Craig Santos Perez, Asian Pacific American Studies, and the Pacific Islander Collective (September 2024)

Welcoming the Class of 2028! (August 2024)
(Photo credit to Josiah Destin and Julian Smart)

WHIAANHPI Higher Education Leadership Summit at UC Berkeley (April 2024)

AAPI Solidarities: A Night of Poetry, Conversations, and Community (April 2024)

Spring AAPI Faculty and Staff Social at Pa'ina Restaurant in Japantown (March 2024)

We invite you to share about recent successes, campus events for promotion, and spotlights on students, faculty, and staff! Contact AAPIcenter@usfca.edu.

The Asian American Pacific Islander (AAPI) Center at the University of San Francisco is a grant project funded by the Asian American Native American Pacific Islander-Serving Institution (AANAPISI) program of the U.S. Department of Education.