NAAPAE/CTA-PAAC Conference
Long Beach, California
April 3-5, 2003

"Weaving Our Collective Strength."

STRANDS: Education, Community Development, and Social & Cultural Issues

EDUCATION (includes, but not limited to, the following topics)
  • Community Service Learning
  • Instructional Technology
  • Elementary and Secondary Education Act
  • K-12
  • Ethnic Studies
  • Multicultural Education
  • Heritage Language and Culture
  • Office of English Language Acquisition
  • Higher Education
  • Teacher Education

COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT (includes, but not limited to, the following topics)
  • Asian Gangs
  • Political Participation
  • Family-School-Community Partnership
  • School Boards
  • Leadership Development
  • Social and Legal Services

SOCIAL AND CULTURAL ISSUES (includes, but not limited to, the following topics)
  • Asian American Media Production
  • Identity
  • Asian and Pacific Islander American Images
  • Immigration
  • Demographic Changes
  • Interracial Marriages and Dating
  • Dependency and Addiction
  • Labor
  • Gender and Sexuality
  • Myth of Model Minority
  • Hate Crimes
  • Wartime Internment of Japanese Americans

Last updated November 18, 2002



Proposals for Papers, Panels and Workshops must be received by January 15, 2003 (more information).

Register before March 1, 2003, to qualify for the pre-conference registration fees.