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美国研究中心讲座
Lecture on American Studies
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The Challenges of Asian Americans in the United States: The Model Minority Myth
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Speaker: Dr. Edna Chun
Venue: Room 115, SEIS Building
Time: 3:00–5:00 pm, April 27 (Friday)
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About the Lecture
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This seminar addresses the challenges of Asian Americans in the United States and the model minority myth. The model minority myth has created stereotypical expectations for Asian Americans due to their relative economic and professional success and resulted in their exclusion from consideration as an underrepresented group in higher education diversity hiring initiatives. Asian Americans have been less successful than other minorities in attaining leadership roles, and hold only 2.3 percent of presidential positions in higher education. The lack of recognition of the covert and overt discrimination faced by Asian Americans has led to the invisibility of their challenges, exacerbated by the absence of a cohesive public voice and collective consciousness. The seminar offers recommendations for change and for building awareness of the behavioral and structural barriers faced by Asian Americans in the United States.
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About the Speaker
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Edna B. Chun, D.M., is an educational leader and author with more than two decades of strategic human resource and diversity leadership experience in higher education in Florida, North Carolina and California. Her work and publications focus on talent practices that build organizational capacity. She advises leaders and boards on strategic diversity leadership and workforce development, culture change, organizational learning, total rewards strategy, and cultural competence. Dr. Chun’s publications includeDiverse Administrators in Peril: The New Indentured Class in Higher Education(Paradigm, 2012), the first in-depth examination of the work experiences of minority, female, and lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender administrators, andCreating a Tipping Point: Strategic Human Resources in Higher Education(Jossey Bass, 2012), a research-based approach to the development of strategic HR talent management practices in higher education.The Department Chairs as Transformative Diversity Leaders: Building Inclusive Learning Environments in Higher Education(Stylus, 2015) is the first research-based resource on the academic department chair’s role in diversity transformation. Her newly published book,Leading a Diversity Culture Shift in Higher Education: Comprehensive Organizational Learning Strategies, focuses on concrete leadership strategies for cultural change (Routledge, 2018).
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埃德娜·陈，教育领导专家，主要从事美国高等教育研究中的战略人力资源和多元化研究，具有美国印第安纳大学高等音乐博士学位、哥伦比亚大学中国文学硕士和印第安纳大学高等音乐硕士学位。现担任佛罗里达州高等教育人才管理公司（HigherEd Talent）首席学习官，曾就职于北卡罗莱纳大学、佛罗里达布劳沃德学院，纽约州立大学，纽约市布鲁克林学院，肯特州立大学，波特兰州立大学，加利福尼亚理工州立大学，加州大学戴维斯分校，俄亥俄大学。近十年来出版专著10本，发表文章59篇，包括《引领多元文化转变：全面的组织学习策略》（Leading a diversity culture shift: Comprehensive organizational learning strategies，2018），《对高等教育中文化能力的重新审视：学生发展的生态框架》（Rethinking cultural competence in higher education: An ecological framework for student development，2016）、《城墙真的倒下了吗？——教职员工多元化的行为和组织障碍》（Are the Walls Really Down? Behavioral and Organizational Barriers to Faculty and Staff Diversity，2007）、高等教育中的全球化互惠赋权（Bridging the Diversity Divide: Globalization and Reciprocal Empowerment in Higher Education, 2009）等。
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