Higher Education Summit on Asian and Pacific Americans Convened: The lack of federal education assistance targeting struggling Asian and Pacific Islander American students and families drove Neil Horikoshi, president and executive director of the Asian and Pacific Islander American Scholarship Fund (APIASF), and fund supporters to organize the first annual APIASF Higher Education Summit on Thursday in downtown Washington.More than 400 students, scholars, and community leaders attended the daylong summit, whose speakers included Dr. Martha Kanter, under secretary of the U.S. Education Department, and Kiran Ahuja, the executive director of the White House Initiative on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders.
Summit speeches and sessions largely explored the obstacles that underserved Asian-American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) students encounter in their pursuit of a college education.
