Standing in solidarity with our Asian American community

From the Office of Access, Diversity and Inclusion

Renita Miller, Associate Dean for Access, Diversity and Inclusion

                                   Renita Miller
                                         Associate Dean
                                         Access, Diversity and Inclusion

We would like to reiterate the sentiments expressed in the message by President Eisgruber on the 17th condemning the hateful and violent acts toward the Asian community. We stand in solidarity with our Asian, Asian American, and Pacific Islander American Community. In these difficult times, please remember the campus support systems that continue to be available to you. Reach out and connect with your peers, advisers, and staff in the Office of the Dean of the Graduate School. And, importantly, Counseling and Psychological Services (CPS)(link is external) is always available to help.

The graduate school in partnership with Sue Kim from Counseling and Psychological Services (CPS) is hosting a listening circle for our Asian Graduate Student community. We invite you for an opportunity to share your feelings, hear from others, or simply process the deep emotions being experienced at this time. The listening circle will be held on Friday, March 19 from 12pm – 1pm. If you are interested, please join using the Zoom link https://princeton.zoom.us/j/94946647541, Meeting ID: 949 4664 7541.

If you have questions about the event, please contact Sue Kim at sk38@princeton.edu.

Sincerely,
Dean Miller

Wednesday, Mar 17, 2021

by Office of Communications

The following statement by Princeton President Christopher L. Eisgruber was shared on the President’s blog on March 17, 2021:

I join the Princeton University community and people everywhere in mourning the victims of last night’s horrific shootings in Atlanta. Though the killings remain under investigation, these attacks come amidst a disturbing nationwide rise in violence, discrimination, and xenophobia directed against the Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) community.

As scholars including Princeton’s own Anne Cheng and Beth Lew-Williams have demonstrated in research and public commentary, these trends are only the most recent and visible manifestations of durable, damaging, and too often overlooked racism and injustice. We must condemn not only recent acts of violence against Asian-Americans, but also the much more pervasive discrimination and stereotyping that has for too long and too often harmed Asian American lives and impoverished our society.

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