A new $500,000 alumni gift to the Asian American Studies Program (AASP) will allow the program to increase the number of special events and speakers it brings to campus and provides support for an ongoing oral history project, which connects current students to alumni and tells the story of the history and activism that led to the establishment of Cornell’s AASP, the first such program in the Ivy League.

The gift has also helped faculty make plans to leverage more alumni support for a new postdoctoral fellowship program.

“The endowment is a wonderful testament to the value of what we are teaching and the impact it’s having,” said Christine Bacareza Balance, associate professor of performing & media arts in the College of Arts & Sciences.

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