[HINT: Universities are run by Bigots for the Left aka Liberal Democrats.
According to Bigots for the Left, it is OK to discriminate against
Asian Americans.]
3/4/09 From Executive Director S. Alice Mong
    In 2005, the Committee of 100 embarked on an important project to look 
at the lack of Asian Pacific Americans in higher education administration. 
Under the leadership of our Chairman at the time, Bob Lee, we surveyed 
the top institutions of higher education in the U.S. and published the results
in our Asian Pacific Americans (APAs) In Higher Education Report Card.
    A key finding in this report card was that although Asian Americans 
account for 6.2% of faculty, more than any other minority group, they hold 
only 2.4% of 145,371 senior administrative positions in higher education. 
This compares to 9.4% of such positions held by African Americans and 
3.6% by Latino Americans. 
    The Committee of 100's Asian Pacific Americans (APAs) In Higher 
Education  Report Card 
http://www.committee100.org/publications/edu/C100_Higher_Ed_Report_Card.pdf  

COMMITTEE OF 100 
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12/15/08 80-20 PAC www.80-20.us: Why so few AsAm College 
Presidents?
    The following is from 80-20's newest Board Member, Roy Saigo, who has just retired as the President of St. Cloud Univ., the largest of the Minnesota state colleges. On 9/28/08, he published an article in "The Chronicle Of Higher Education" entitled: Why There Still Aren't
Enough Asian-American College Presidents". Roy's first paragraphs was: "At age 5, my grandson understood fair play. If he didn't get his turn, he'd cry, "No fair!" As caring adults, we intercede when we see 
children ignore or gang up on another child -- we tell them, "No fair!"
    Roy gave us these facts: In 2005, the proportion of Asian Pacific Islander professors in the United States who held full-time positions was 7.6 percent. In comparison, a 2006 survey by the American Council on
Education showed that only 0.9% of the president's job is held by Asian Americans.  In the fall of 2007, 18.3 percent of California State's undergraduate students identified themselves as being of Asian/Filipino/
Pacific Island ethnicity. In the California State University system in the fall of 2006, 13.8 percent of the faculty was identified as Asians. So where are the provosts and academic vice presidents?
    Roy's last paragraphs was: "The issue I have raised needs more than task forces, surveys, and recommendations -- there have been plenty of 
those over the years.  There must be actions that can be monitored for quantifiable results. I hope someone won't have to write this commentary again in 10 years. Fair?"
[Dear Roy, Bigots for the Left run universities.  They discriminate against Asian Americans in favor of blacks and Hispanics.  It is known as affirmative action which 80-20 supports.  They reduce the number of Asian Americans in order to increase the number of blacks and Hispanics, but they do not reduce the number of Jews in order to increase the number of blacks and Hispanics.  All animals are equal but some are more equal than others. See Statistics on reverse discrimination.  If you don't like it, you need to sue.  As long as Bigots for the Left think they can get away with it,
they will continue to discriminate against Asian Americans.]



11/14/07 Asianjournal.com: "FilAm Prof Cries Discrimination,"
by Joseph Pimentel
    Another Filipino-American doctor is creating quite a stir in Georgia.
    Dr. Emelita Breyer, a Chemistry professor, is suing her former employer Georgia 
State University (GSU) and the State’s Board of Regents for alleged 
discriminatory hiring practices.
    After being denied tenure at GSU in 1995, Breyer investigated her tenure 
application and uncovered what she says is a history of anti-Asian 
discrimination in the University.
    Breyer worked as an assistant professor at GSU for six years. She alleged 
that senior faculty members in 2005 denied her tenure because of her 
Filipino-Chinese heritage.
    “It’s the bamboo ceiling,” said Breyer in a phone interview with the Asian 
Journal from her home in Atlanta. “They don’t want to hire Asians to 
top positions.”
    In e-mail to the Asian Journal, Interim associate Vice Chancellor for Media and 
Publications John Millsaps said the Board of Regents of the University 
System of Georgia did not comment on pending litigation. Millsaps did 
not return a phone call about the case.
    Breyer said her pending lawsuit against the school is about “making a 
difference.”
    “I’m trying to eliminate discrimination and the first step is to promote 
awareness to our fellow Asian Americans,” she said. “I don’t want our 
next generation to experience what I experienced.”
    Breyer alleged that she was discriminated against during her tenure review in 
2005.
    She said a senior faculty member blatantly stated there were “too many Chinese” 
in the faculty as the reason why he didn’t vote to hire a new Asian faculty candidate in the chemistry department.
    There are currently five Asian professors, according to the GSU chemistry faculty website.
    “I was denied three times [in 2005] – once by senior faculty, once by the 
[department] Dean, and then the Provost,” she said.
    “I started wondering about the question [why I was denied] so I addressed the 
issue just to get the facts. I wanted to know why I was not being promoted.”
    This led Breyer to a fact-finding mission and requested an open record investigation. She was denied tenure despite having no complaints against her and 
other colleagues describing her work as “groundbreaking” in the field of chemistry.
    Breyer’s investigation revealed that Asian faculty members at GSU had lower 
salaries than their American counterparts.
    “Since all [Georgia State] employee records are open to the public, I found 
out that upon getting hired in 1999, I was the lowest paid faculty member in the department,” she said. “I compared my salary to that of a Caucasian male colleague who started at the same time, and he was getting paid more than I was.”
    She believes that her nine years of experience should have merited equal pay. She said that the lowest salary for a professor at GSU is roughly $45,000 a year. She, however, was being paid $43,000.
    “I worked hard and sacrificed to be where I am,” she said.
    Educational Background
    Born in Manila, Philippines, she graduated from the University of Santo Tomas College of Sciences. After working briefly for a corporation in the Philippines, she decided to pursue an academic career earning her Ph.D. in Biochemistry at the University of New Orleans. She accepted a Clinical Chemistry Fellowship at the University of North Carolina Hospital in Chapel Hill. She taught at Emory University for seven years before applying for a tenure track at GSU.
    “I know that if I worked at a corporation I would have been paid double to triple the amount of salary I was receiving at the school,” she said. “But I learned early on that academia is the place for me. Researching and teaching is where I belong.”
    Breyer said people don’t understand the business mentality when it comes to a 
university.
    “A lot of people don’t understand the university system,” she said. “Getting a tenure from a university is the goal of all university teachers and professors. It basically insures me a job. Assistant Professors and Lecturers are on an annual contract basis.”
    Breyer believes that she earned that tenure position working up the academic 
ladder.
    “I started as a Ph.D. student with a salary of $7,000 a year. In my post-doctorate
job I was working seven days a week for $24,000 before moving on as an Assistant Professor. The university expects us to work 70 to 80 hours a week, seven days a week,” she said. “This is a business. Our work is based on grants and have students produce papers.”
    More Allegations
    Other than salary, she alleged that during her six years of teaching at GSU she was consistently given unfair treatment to an equivalent and junior faculty in terms of teaching preference, service and students.
    But what upset Breyer most was that one of her colleagues openly lobbied 
against and supplied negative information about her to those in charge of her tenure application.
    “I used to be just one the millions of Asians going through life happily never believing that I would be discriminated against that it [discrimination] doesn’t affect me, that I’m not part of the discrimination crowd.”
    “Many of us don’t realize that we are being discriminated against,” she said. “Subtle discrimination is the worst kind. It’s not until you start looking and becoming aware of the situation that you realize what is happening.”
    Community Support
    Breyer ask the community to rally behind her for this cause.
    “The fight is hard,” she said.
    A lawyer told Breyer that she has maybe a 15 percent chance of winning a Title 
VII case against her former employer.
    She admitted though, that she is at a serious disadvantage fighting the battle in the South, in Georgia.  There is hope, though.
    “Where did Dr. Martin Luther King fight against discrimination?” Breyer asked. “Right here, in Atlanta. He fought it in the most difficult place and he made an impact.”
    “I want people to realize that we are fighting for the same cause that if we win here in Atlanta, you will win in California and New York and other places in the US,” she added.
    For more information about Dr. Emelita Breyer’s case go to www.emelita-breyer.com



11/8/07 www.gmanews.tv (Philippine News): "Fil-Chinese prof sues Georgia State U for discrimination,"
    Her work has been referred to as groundbreaking, but her Chinese-Filipino heritage was used against her.
    Dr. Emelita de Guzman Breyer, formerly an assistant professor at Georgia State University ’s school of chemistry, is now suing her former employer after she was denied tenure without valid grounds.
    Worst, Breyer said she was subjected to racist remarks by two senior faculty members of the university. One of her tormentors said there were "too many Chinese" in the school’s faculty, reason enough to deny her tenure after six years with Georgia State .
    Breyer joined GSU in 1999 and applied for tenure in Sept., 2005. Her application was denied despite backing from three distinguished scientists in her field who used the word “groundbreaking" to describe Breyer’s work.
    After her bid was denied, Breyer decided to sue, saying she wanted to show that “one person can make a difference by standing up against this injustice."
    “I have suffered discriminatory treatment for years without even knowing it until I started being aware of the situation," according to Breyer.
    But she added that her battle against the GSU would be both difficult and costly. Breyer is therefore asking for support from the Filipino American and the Asian-American community.
    Her discrimination lawsuit is against GSU and its Board of Regents. She said she needs legal, financial and community support.
    Breyer said she came to realize that she was just one of countless Americans of Asian descent who had been barred from moving up by a “bamboo ceiling." Asian Americans are denied promotions and are paid less for the same work done as other Americans, she said.
    Part of the problem may be cultural. Asians are generally less prone to aggressively fighting for their rights, and this has placed them in a weaker position when faced with discrimination.
    “For the silent victims, whether the damage is small or serious, they need to realize that they are not alone and if they are afraid to fight alone then we can do it together through this case," Breyer said.
    She wants nothing more than to get back to doing what she does best, which is to teach. Breyer said that after this ordeal is over, she wants to “continue my work in eliminating health disparity."
    Breyer’s work in the health related field has been cited for its global impact. 
    Volunteers can e-mail Dr. Breyer at emelita.bryer at gmail.com or write to her at Dr. Emelita Breyer Legal Funds, c/o Dr. Emelita D. Breyer, P.O. Box 1076, Tucker, GA 30085-1076

3/30/06 Yale Daily News: Report finds no ethnic bias: Graduate School committee issues recommendations but denies discrimination,
by Jessica Marsden
    In a report released Wednesday night, an internal committee found that the Graduate School does not systematically discriminate against students of Chinese origin, but noted that departments could improve communication with all students about finances and evaluations.
    The committee, which was chaired by professor Donald Engelman, was created last fall after allegations of discrimination were made by members of the Graduate Employees and Students Organization in a series of protests in October. Graduate School Dean Jon Butler said he accepts the committee's recommendations and will implement them as soon as possible. GESO members said while they are pleased the Graduate School is focused on international students' concerns, the report does not meet all of the group's demands.
    "The most significant finding is that the University does not discriminate on the basis of national origin," Butler said. "There is a body of recommendations that make it clear that departments in the Graduate School simply need to be clear about their regulations and communicating with students."
    Funding issues were a central piece of the dispute arising in the fall over the case of Xuemei Han FES '09, who was told she might lose her funding if she switched from a program in ecology and evolutionary biology to a doctoral program administered by the School of Forestry and Environmental Studies. Han was unable to find an advisor in her original program, and in science departments that pay stipends out of faculty grants, fluctuations in grant funds or advising can threaten students' financial support.
    The Engelman committee reaffirmed that departments must accept responsibility for finding each student an advisor and meeting their guarantee to provide a stipend for every student in the program, regardless of funding gaps. They also recommended the creation of a new ad hoc committee to evaluate and clarify funding policies to minimize student confusion.
    The report also recommended that written evaluations be provided after students complete a lab rotation -- because oral recommendations can lead to misunderstandings between the students, faculty members and departments -- and that every graduate student receive an annual written evaluation. Committee member Sarbani Basu, an astronomy professor, said this recommendation will benefit all doctoral candidates, not just international students.
    "It's a bit more crucial for international students because there may be miscommunication at times," she said.
    Because language barriers between professors and students may impede advising and evaluation as well as future career opportunities, the committee recommended that the University require courses in spoken English for students who need it. It also proposed the creation of an English language training course to be conducted in China for incoming students, which Butler said may not be feasible for summer 2006 but which he will work to implement for 2007.
    Basu said all of the committee members except for Engelman originally came from non-English speaking communities, so they were sympathetic to concerns about language barriers and visas.
    "We know exactly how the students feel and how unnerving it is that you might lose your visa," she said.
    Butler said he expects to implement all of the committee's recommendations quickly, and he plans to meet with all science departments by mid-June to discuss the recommendations. Though the recommendations will not be enforced as rules, they will be put into place through the Graduate School 's "powers of persuasion," Butler said, and he expects departments to accept the proposals because the benefits are so clear.
    GESO spokesperson Evan Cobb GRD '07 said he is glad the University is taking international student concerns seriously. Organizer Xiaoye Li GRD '07 said he thinks the report addressed most of the concerns expressed in the grievance that was filed by Han in October, but the recommendation for further study of funding security is not a complete solution.
    Cobb said he is disappointed that the committee did not include anyone who signed the "class action grievance" organized by GESO and signed by more than 300 students in the fall.
    "A majority of the Chinese community at Yale signed that grievance, and it's very curious that none of those students were involved in the committee in any way," he said.
    The committee included four professors, all representing science departments, and two graduate students. The students were elected representatives in the Graduate Student Assembly, selected by the GSA to serve on the committee.