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MSCHE commends the mission and methods of the Foundation
Posted Friday, November 18, 2011 - 5:06 PM
The Middle States Commission on Higher Education announces its support and commends the mission and methods of the R. H. Perry Foundation. The Foundation's Executive Director, Board of Advisors and Staff are most gratified by the MSCHE vote of confidence. Click on the MSCHE letter to read it.
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Online Governing Board Training
Posted Wednesday, July 27, 2011 - 2:22 PM
The Foundation announces its online Governing Board Training Program for challenged and at risk colleges and universities. The board self-analysis is an extremely useful 6-week evaluation experience. It requires total board participation, yet provides anonymity of responses, it is comprehensive enough to unearth any generic problems on the board, without targeting individuals for perceived deficiencies, and it educates all board members. Any college -- or nonprofit organization--would benefit from such a process in the search for new board members as a check on its understanding of the fundamental responsibilities of the board as the caretaker of the institution.
Frank H. Wu: An Academic Career Dedicated to Finding Justice for All People
Posted Thursday, June 30, 2011 - 4:02 PM
When asked to join the R. H. Perry Foundation Board of Advisors, Frank Wu's almost immediate response was "I am delighted to accept your invitation to serve on your Advisory Board. I am honored to be asked. I look forward to helping you with this important work."
Frank H. Wu is a law professor, author, and public intellectual. He is Chancellor and Dean of University of California, Hastings College of the Law in San Francisco, California, a position he assumed in July 2010. He is the first Asian American professor to teach at Howard Law School, as well as the first Asian American to serve as dean of Wayne State University Law School in Detroit, Michigan. Wu is the author of Yellow: Race in America Beyond Black and White, which was immediately re-printed in hardcover. Arguing for a new paradigm of civil rights that goes beyond a black-white paradigm, while also addressing subtle forms of racial discrimination, the book has become canonical in Asian American Studies and is widely used in classes on the subject. Yellow appears in both the film, Americanese, an adaptation of American Knees by Shawn Wong, and the book, Secret Identities: The Asian American Superhero Anthology. Wu himself has appeared as a character in Asian America: The Movement and the Moment.
All of us at the Foundation are excited to have Frank Wu join ranks with our other advisors as we seek new ways to expand diversity in the board rooms of U.S. colleges and universities. In Frank's words, "We all have a stake in promoting greater understanding in race relations. Our success as a society depends upon it."