‘Model Minority’ Myth Dispelled at AAPI Summit

‘Model Minority’ Myth Dispelled at AAPI Summit: Washington, D.C. — In order to live up to the designation of being an Asian-American and Native American Pacific Islander Serving Institution, or an AANAPISI, a college or university must instill the idea into its campus ethos.

That was the heart of the message delivered Wednesday by DeAnza College President Brian Murphy at the third annual Asian & Pacific Islander American Scholarship Fund Higher Education Summit.

“The AANAPISI designation isn’t some sidelight. It isn’t the next cool thing that goes away after the grant goes away,” Murphy said during the summit, held at the Ronald Reagan Building & International Trade Center.

“It’s who we are,” Murphy said of his institution’s status as an AANAPISI. “We are also at the same time Hispanic serving, immigrant serving, poor serving. We have to call that out.”