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Honoree
Biographies
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Four distinguished educators
will be honored: Dr. Louise Mirrer,
Executive Vice Chancellor of CUNY, Dr.
Ngee Pong Chang, Professor of Physics at CCNY,
Dr. Pyong Gap Min, Professor of
Sociology at Queens College, and Dr.
Parmatma Saran, Professor of Sociology and
Anthropology at Baruch College. Dr. Benno Schmidt Jr.,
Chairman of CUNY Board of Trustees and Dr. Matthew
Goldstein, Chancellor of CUNY will officiate at the
ceremony. |
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2003 Annual Banquet
Chairperson |
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Dr.
Louise Mirrer will be this year's
Annual Banquet Chairperson.
She is Executive Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs at
The City University of New York. She previously served as
Vice Provost for Arts, Sciences and Engineering at the
University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, where she held joint
appointments as Professor in the Departments of Spanish
and Portuguese and Comparative Literature. |
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Ngee Pong
Chang
is Professor of Physics at City College of New York, CUNY. He
received his Ph.D. in Physics from Columbia University,
specializing in Theoretical High-Energy Physics. Dr. Chang is
the Director of China Exchange Program at CCNY, Founder & CEO
of China-American Technology Corp. He is also a Founder and
Faculty Advisor of the Chinese Alumni Group, CCNY Association;
and Vice-Chair of Board of the Asian American Higher Education
Council.
Pyong Gap
Min is Professor of Sociology at Queens
College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New
York. The areas of his research focus are immigration,
ethnicity, ethnic business, women’s gender role, and
immigrants’ religions, with a special focus on Asian
Americans. He is the author of three books, including
Caught in the Middle: Korean Communities in New York and Los
Angeles (1996), the winner of two national book awards. He
is the editor or co-editor of five books. They include The
Second Generation: Ethnic Identity among Asian Americans
(2002) and Mass Migration to the United States:
Classical and Contemporary Periods (2002).
Parmatma Saran came to the United
States from India in 1967 on a full scholarship to do graduate
work at the City University of New York and received his PH.I.
in Sociology in 1975.
He has been
teaching at Baruch College of the City University of New York
since 1969 and at the Graduate School beginning in 1987. He
was promoted to the rank of full professor in 1989 and
currently serves as chairman of the Sociology and Anthropology
department, as well as heads the Asian and Asian American
Studies program at Baruch College.
He teaches courses
both at the Graduate and Undergraduate level focusing on race
relations, ethnicity, minority groups, new immigrants, and
India. His writing and research is on Asian communities in the
United States and India. He is the author of four books and a
large number of articles both in professional journals and
magazines. Two of his books are on experiences of Asian
Indians in the United States and are widely quoted in
journals, magazines, and newspapers including the New York
Times, Daily News, Time Magazine, Newsweek, U.S. News and
World Report, National Geographic, India Today, India abroad,
News India, India Monitor, and many others. |
