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Asian American Coalition Rejects OCR’s Report on Princeton University’s Alleged Discrimination against Asian Americans

For Immediate Release September 28, 2015 Short Hills, New Jersey: Asian American Coalition for Education (AACE) has issued a letter （ Attached ） to Ms. Catherine Lhamon, Assistant Secretary of the Office for Civil Rights (OCR), U.S. Department of Education, rejecting the conclusion in OCR’s September 9, 2015 letter to Princeton University relative to alleged discrimination against Asian… Read More »

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

For Immediate Release September 22, 2015 Short Hills, New Jersey: Asian American Coalition for Education (AACE) has issued a letter （ Attached ） to Ms. Catherine Lhamon, Assistant Secretary of the Office for Civil Rights (OCR), U.S. Department of Education. The letter requests her office to launch an immediate investigation into a recent complaint filed by an Asian… Read More »

100+ Asian American Organizations Urge Supreme Court to Ban Racial Discrimination in College Admissions

For Immediate Release 100+ Asian American Organizations Urge Supreme Court to Ban Racial Discrimination in College Admissions September 10, 2015—Short Hills, New Jersey: The Asian American Coalition for Education (“AACE”), representing 117 Chinese, Indian, Pakistani, Korean, Vietnamese and other Asian American community and education organizations, and the Asian American Legal Foundation (“AALF”) jointly filed an amicus brief with… Read More »

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 »