Dear UConn students, staff, and faculty, I am writing to you today to update you that this past month there were two separate reported bias incidents targeting the LGBTQIA+ community on UConn’s campus. On March 16, an RA in Alumni Hall found images drawn on a dry-erase board in the lounge space. These images referenced […]
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APALSA Statement Regarding Anti-Asian Hate Crimes and Discrimination
As Dean of the University of Connecticut School of Law, I join the statement below issued by the Asian Pacific American Law Students Association condemning Anti-Asian Hate Crimes and Discrimination. Our community stands against racism of every kind. No one should be subject to violence and incidents of hate. Yet, Asian Americans across the country […]
Statement on Anti-Asian Violence
UCONN ASSOCIATION FOR ASIAN AMERICAN FACULTY AND STAFF (AAAFS) STATEMENT ON ANTI-ASIAN VIOLENCE The first cases of Covid-19 in the United States were reported in January 2020, and since that time there has been a massive increase in anti-Asian violence across the United States. STOP AAPI HATE notes that hundreds and sometimes thousands of reported […]
Statement from HESA’s Faculty in Solidarity with our Asian American Community
Dear HESA Community, It is, again, with heavy hearts that we reach out to you to name, acknowledge and reckon with racial violence impacting our communities. In particular, our Asian and Asian American communities are under attack. Everywhere we turn, we are surrounded by racial injustices and increasing onslaught of anti-Asian violence across our nation. […]
SSS Statement to Our Asian Community
Dear SSS students, We are devastated to see the increase in hate crimes directed at the Asian community. Over the last year, an increasing number of Asian American families have felt the impact of racism through bullying, violence, and acts of discrimination. Our SSS family is rich with diversity, and is made up of many […]
ODI’s Statement on Anti-Asian Racism
Since January 2020, instances of Anti-Asian aggression, bias, and violence have increased drastically across the United States. According to Stop AAPI Hate.pdf, the country’s leading coalition documenting and addressing Anti-Asian hate and discrimination during the COVID-19 Pandemic, people of Asian descent have been caught in cycles of harassment and violence as they have been scapegoated […]
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Statement on Anti-Asian Violence
UCONN ASSOCIATION FOR ASIAN AMERICAN FACULTY AND STAFF (AAAFS) STATEMENT ON ANTI-ASIAN VIOLENCE The first cases of Covid-19 in the United States were reported in January 2020, and since that time there has been a massive increase in anti-Asian violence across the United States. STOP AAPI HATE notes that hundreds and sometimes thousands of reported […]
President’s Statement on Anti-Asian Violence and Bias
Dear UConn Community, One of the most alarming and upsetting developments of the past year stemming from the COVID-19 pandemic has been a surge of hate crimes, bias incidents, and racist bullying directed against the Asian community throughout our country. Since the pandemic began last year, many Asians and Asian Americans around the United […]