A Consortium of Liberal Arts Colleges to Promote Asian Studies
2007 - 2008 Fact Sheet
ASIANetwork Board of Directors Meeting at 2007 Conference (Photo by Bob Eng)
- Anniversary: Celebrated 15th Year in 2007
- Membership: 45 founding members in 1992; 174 institutional members as of July 2007
- Endowment: Raised approximately $1 Million for an endowment fund as of June 30, 2007
- Newsletter: ASIANetwork Exchange published thrice yearly since Winter 1992
- Annual Conference: Meets annually with two keynote speakers, two plenary sessions and 16 breakout sessions that now attract around 200 participants
- Four grants totaling $1,045,000 from The Henry Luce Foundation
- $436,000 from The Ford Foundation
- Three grants totaling $4,655,658 from the Freeman Foundation
- Two grants totaling $4,674 from The Japan Foundation provided support for annual conference in 2000 & 2002
- Matching grant of $1,500 from The United Board for Christian Higher Education in Asia supported creation of the ASIANetwork Development Plan (1999)
- 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 from 1994-98 with the support from a Luce Foundation grant and 25 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.
- 1997-2000: Sent representatives from 15 schools to Asia (one administrator and a faculty member each school) to help them start a Term-in-Asia program; supported by a grant from the Freeman Foundation.
- 1998-present: Sent 429 students and faculty fellows to Asia for summer research trips from 1998 to 2007; additional 60 researchers per summer will be sent in 2008, 2009 and 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 endowment fund.
- 2004-2008: "Asian Art in the Undergraduate Curriculum" project provides art consultancy visits to 24 schools with Asian art collections; will produce a book with the same title 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.