A Consortium of Liberal Arts Colleges to Promote Asian Studies
2009 - 2010 Fact Sheet
Consortium Highlights:- Anniversary: Celebrated 17th Year in 2009
- Membership: 45 founding members in 1992; 166 institutional members as of June 2009
- Investment: Fund totals approximately $960,000 as of July 31, 2009
- Publication: ASIANetwork Exchange, A Journal for Asian Studies in the Liberal Arts published every fall and spring starting Fall 2008;
ASIANetwork Bulletin published every winter;
(ASIANetwork Exchange was published as newsletter thrice yearly since Winter 1992) - Annual Conference: Meets annually with three keynote speakers, 16 breakout sessions, and networking opportunities; approximately 175 participants
- Five grants totaling $1,495,000 from The Henry Luce Foundation
- $436,000 from The Ford Foundation
- Three grants totaling $4,655,658 from the Freeman Foundation
- Matching grant of $1,500 from The United Board for Christian Higher Education in Asia supported creation of the ASIANetwork Development Plan (1999)
- Two grants totaling $4,674 from The Japan Foundation provided support for annual conference in 2000 & 2002
- Grant of $1,000 from the Korea Society provided support for the 2003 annual conference
- With Hong Kong-America Center (HKAC): $65,000 from The Fulbright-Hays Group Projects Abroad Program
- With Center for Educational Exchange with Vietnam (CEEVN) and American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS): $300,000 from The Henry Luce Foundation
- 1994- present: Established consultancies to help member institutions build their Asian studies programs, 22 consultancies from 1994-98 with the support from a Luce Foundation grant and 30 more consultancies since the grant expired.
- 1995-1999: Sent 39 faculty participants to four three-week Faculty Curricular Development Programs - two summers each program, one summer in an ASIANetwork host school, one summer in Asia; supported by the Ford Foundation.
- 1998-2000; 2004: Sent representatives from 25 schools to Asia (one administrator and a faculty member from each school) to help them start a Term-in-Asia program; supported by a grant from the Freeman Foundation.
- 1998-present: Sent 566 students and faculty fellows to Asia for summer research trips from 1998 to 2009; additional 60 researchers will be sent in summer 2010; supported by Freeman Foundation grants.
- 1998-2000: Published a book, Asia in the Undergraduate Curriculum, supported by a grant from The Henry Luce Foundation.
- 2001-2005: “Securing the Future of ASIANetwork” Luce grant to support the website, newsletter and conferences helped build the current investment fund.
- 2004-2009: “Asian Art in the Undergraduate Curriculum” project provided art consultancy visits to 23 schools with Asian art collections; will produce a book, Reading Asian Art: Windows to Asia in College Collections, at the end of the project; supported by The Henry Luce Foundation.
- 2005: Sent 15 faculty members from different institutions on the Pearl River Delta Faculty Development Seminar through a Fulbright Hays Grant to ASIANetwork and Hong Kong-America Center.
- 2005-2007: Hosted eight Vietnamese scholars at AN schools in Spring 2006 and Spring 2007; one professor from each host school hosted by Vietnam National University in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City in 2006 and 2007; supported by Luce Grant to ASIANetwork and CEEVN/ACLS.
- 2010-2013: Provide grant to member schools for the employment of Teaching Fellows in Asian Studies; four member schools selected each year for the next three years; supported by The Henry Luce Foundation.