Category Archives: Initiative

Unfairly Rejected by Nine American Universities, Asian-American Student Filed Complaint with Office for Civil Rights, Department of Education

For Immediate Release July 24, 2015 Short Hills, New Jersey: Asian American Coalition has issued a letter ( Attached )to Ms. Catherine Lhamon, Assistant Secretary, Office for Civil Rights, U.S. Department of Education to request her office to launch immediate investigation into a complaint recently filed by an Asian American father whose daughter was unfairly rejected by all… Read More »

Asian American Coalition Determined to Expand the Complaint against Harvard

For Immediate Release July 7, 2015—Short Hills, New Jersey: We are very disappointed to learn that the Office for Civil Rights (OCR), U.S. Department of Education has recently dismissed our Administrative Complaint against Harvard University filed on May 15, 2015. Even though our Complaint presented overwhelming evidences indicating that Harvard University has been engaged in continuous and systemic… Read More »

Organizing Committee Members for the Complaint against Harvard

The organizing committee of this initiative consists of a group of Asian-American civil rights activists and community leaders. They include: Alex Chen—Former President of The Orange Club, the first grassroots volunteer-based Chinese American Political Action Committee based in Los Angeles, California. Swann Lee—A civil rights activist, and a Chinese-American author, who has published fiction in literary journals such… Read More »

More than 60 Asian American Organizations File Complaint against Harvard University

Press Release May 15, 2015 Washington, D.C. – Today, a coalition of more than 60 Asian American organizations jointly filed a complaint with the Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice and the Office for Civil Rights of the Department of Education, asking for a civil rights violation investigation of Harvard University’s discrimination against Asian American applicants.… Read More »