The Provost's Awards Lecture Series is intended to honor and showcase the recipients of the Provost's Awards and provide them an opportunity to present, share and discuss their work with the campus. Another goal of this series is to raise the level of academic and intellectual discourse among our colleagues and to further enrich connections with others across the campus.

Date: Thursday, March 16
Time: 3 - 4 p.m.
Location: All seminars will be on Zoom
Meeting ID: 892 1894 1753
Passcode: 529536

Varaxy Yi Borromeo, Department of Educational Leadership
“You, Me, and Our AANAPISI: Building Our Capacity and Enacting Our Commitments as an Asian American and Native American Pacific Islander Serving Institution”
2021-2022 – Promising New Faculty

In fall 2021, 12.4% of our student population identified as Asian American and/or Pacific Islander (AAPI), with more than half of these students identifying as Southeast Asian American (SEAA). Yet, our identity as an Asian American and Native American Pacific Islander Serving Institution (AANAPISI) is not well-understood. Programs, resources and support for AAPI populations are limited. How do we enact our commitments to ourselves and our students as an AANAPISI? This lecture focuses on past and current efforts to build our capacity to support our Asian American and Pacific Islander communities at Fresno State. Contexts that shape AAPI experiences, including the state and (dis)use of data disaggregation, persistent educational disparities, and invisibilization of AAPI communities, are explored and deconstructed. Recommendations and future considerations for owning and coming into our AANAPISI identity are offered.

Luis Fernando Macías, Department of Chicano and Latin American Studies
“Hall Passing, Schemin’, and Organizing: Undocumented Students’ navigational strategies and what they tell us about the state of Higher Education”
2021-2022 – Promising New Faculty

This presentation explores the navigational strategies that undocumented students employ in their pursuit of higher education. The focus on students’ strategies serves to showcase their resourcefulness, ingenuity, and their various approaches to resisting the inequalities related to post-secondary education. This presentation also shares research-based possibilities and actions that institutions of higher education and governing bodies can take to promote equitable access for undocumented students.