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When you give to the School of Social Transformation at Arizona State University, you become a partner in the academic success of our students, the research discoveries of our faculty and the continued effort to make the world better. You’re also supporting a top-ranked research university that’s committed to finding solutions to some of our most pressing concerns. From scholarship support to funding for a specific research cause, your generosity and continued investment impact our community profoundly.
Whether you’re donating a couple of dollars or a large sum, your gift is greatly appreciated. Any amount makes a difference for our students, faculty, staff, research and programs. Your charitable contributions enable our college to achieve the highest standards of excellence, access and impact.
“25 for 25” - Celebrating 25 years of APAS
Local Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander (AANHPI) communities in Maricopa County, along with Asian American ASU faculty, staff, students, worked to build Asian Pacific American Studies (APAS) as an academic program at Arizona State University for at least two decades since the 1970s. AANHPI community leaders actively devoted time and effort to build a program that not only
represented their communities but educated all Arizonans. The Asian American Faculty and Staff Association also shared this vision, and sponsored symposia about AANHPI issues, creating an AANHPI scholarship program, and helped to organize a summer program that educated local high school youth about AANHPI shared experiences.
In 1996, ASU began the planning process for APAS, which was formed in 1998 under the founding director Professor Thomas Nakayama. APAS first offered an undergraduate certificate and eventually offered both a minor and a major in Asian Pacific American Studies. Since its founding, APAS faculty have developed numerous courses that educate all ASU students about global and American specificities of AANHPI experiences in the United States. APAS faculty, nationally recognized scholars in their respective areas of expertise, have collected local community oral histories, and published two statewide reports about AANHPIs in AZ, and shared our knowledge about Asian American and Pacific Islander Studies, as well as Ethnic Studies, across the state.
We honor 25 years of past and present APAS faculty and staff who have sustained Asian Pacific American Studies at Arizona State University and raised consciousness throughout the state of Arizona about Asian Pacific America and beyond, even as we renew our commitment to our educational mission that is timelier than ever.
Help us celebrate 25 years of Asian Pacific American Studies by joining our APAS 25 for 25 Campaign as we continue our research and engagement for social transformation.
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Featured initiatives
Support Justice Studies – PhD students
Social justice is the cornerstone of the Justice Studies PhD program. Our students boldly investigate, analyze, and critique the complicated and devastating realities of racism, sexism, classism, ableism, ageism, heterosexism, and their intersections. A majority of our students come from these very communities, which is why their imaginative and urgently needed projects go beyond abstract analysis to co-create knowledge and generate transformative solutions for communities impacted by these systems of oppression. Your donation ensures that this brave and ethical work continues, despite the ferocity of the winds of injustice.
Support Gender Studies – PhD students
Our global society currently faces crises that have inordinate impact on communities marginalized by inequities of race, sexuality, gender, wealth, and other social and environmental factors. Our doctoral program trains students to draw upon intersectional feminist theory and praxis to critically analyze these inequities from a deeply interdisciplinary perspective and to learn from communities that creatively confront these inequities in empowering ways. In so doing we seek to prepare our doctoral students to learn from those who best understand inequity and resistance and share those lessons across multiple sites of learning and knowledge production, including higher education, industry, or popular discourse.
Ensure Student Access and Excellence
African and African American Studies Book Scholarship
When you make a gift to the African and African American Studies Book Scholarship Fund, you ensure students with limited resources have the necessary tools to complete their studies and research in the African and African American Studies program. This scholarship was created by ASU alumnus Jai Young Park.
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Women's Studies Scholarship
When you make a gift to the Women Studies Scholarship/Fellowship Fund, you ensure students with limited resources have the necessary tools to complete their studies and research in the Women and Gender Studies program.
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First Generation Justice Studies Alumni Scholarship and Fellowship
When you make a gift to the Justice Studies 1st Generation Alumni Scholarship Fund, you ensure first-generation students with limited resources have the necessary tools to complete their studies and research in the Justice and Social Inquiry program.
School of Social Transformation Emergency Student Fund
The School of Social Transformation Emergency Student Fund provides financial assistance to ASU students in times of need. With your support, the fund will serve as a supplemental financial source when students are unable to meet immediate and essential expenses.
Examples include, but are not limited to, times when students face crises such as an illness, death of a family member, medical emergency or the immediate need for housing, food or transportation.
Because of your support, students in emergency situations will have the support they need. Together, we can show that ASU provides for its students and that students are a part of the ASU family.
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School of Social Transformation
When you give to the School of Social Transformation at Arizona State University, you become a partner in the academic success of our students, research discoveries of our faculty and the continued effort to make the world better. Your donations support a top-ranked research university that?s committed to finding solutions to some of our most pressing concerns.
Center for Indian Education
Your gift to the Center for Indian Education helps us build a new generation of indigenous scholars, teachers and leaders, and supports leading edge research grounded in indigenous knowledge.
Center for Gender Equity in Science and Technology (CGEST)
Participation from women belonging to diverse race-ethnic-social class groups in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) fields is lacking. When you make a gift to the Center for Gender Equity in Science Technology, you help us change that. Your support is critical to our mission: To actively drive the discourse and experiences of underrepresented girls in STEM by owning, generating and critiquing the collective body of scholarship on, and offering culturally responsive programs for, girls of color and STEM education.
Champion Student Success
John P Frank Lecture Series
Your gift to the John P. Frank Memorial Lecture Series Fund helps the School of Social Transformation provide a forum to share and explore critical issues of justice and the law with community leaders.
Center for Indian Education
Your gift to the Seeking Justice in Arizona Lecture Series Fund allows us to bring in social justice experts from local communities to discuss critical national issues in an Arizona context.