Box 1

The Asian/American Center, founded at Queens College in 1987, fostered community based research focused on the Asian diaspora and acted as a bridge between campus and community. The collection contains administrative materials such as newsletters and brochures, flyers and photographs of events, samples of translated documents from their Translation Program, materials from the Asian American Community Studies minor, and research produced by the A/AC.

This series contains the Asian/American Center collections materials pertaining to the running of the center’s operations. Included is historical information on the founding, flyers and promotional materials, reports, newsletters, staff training materials, press coverage, program materials such as business cards and letterhead.

Historical information on the founding of the Asian/American Center. The original folder housing the documents was labeled "Historical Founding Documents." Documents in this file include information on the center’s mission and work, staff biographies, A/AC newsletters from 2000-2002 and 2004, and three letters from different non-profits thanking the Translation Program for their translation assistance.

This series contains program outreach, event materials, Summer Institute materials, and scholarship program materials for the academic minor which began in 2010.

This series contains reports, research from the 2000s census, and a "Working Papers" series produced by the Asian/American Center dating from the late 1980s up until the mid 2010s.

This file contains one partial syllabus for the Fall 2019 AACS course "Immigrant Communities in Queens" taught by professor Madhulika Khandelwal.

This file contains flyers advertising scholarships from the A/AC to Queens College students and a program for Asian and Pacific Islander American Scholarship (APIASF) ANAAPISI Scholarship Award Ceremony which took place in March 2016.

This file contains contact lists of nonprofit organizations which provide health services, legal aid, labor organizing, business development, and other community services to members of the AAPI diaspora in NYC.

This file contains flyers, brochures, an A/AC plaque, and photographs which once hung from the A/AC's Kissena Hall bulletin board.

This file contains a brochure for the Queens College Asian American/ Asian Research Institute (AAARI) from circa 2002, a flyer of AAARI upcoming events (2002-2003), an invitation to attend a fundraiser banquet at the Harmony Palace restaurant in 2002, and a printed email invitation to attend a 2002 faculty and staff reception from Chairperson Betty Lee Sung.