The challenge of the Yukon It's King, swiftest and strongest lead dog of the North country, blazing the trail for sergeant Preston of the Northwest Montet police in his relentless pursuit of lawbreakers. Un-King! Un-New-History! Gold, gold discovered in the Yukon, a stampede to the Klondike in the greedy race for riches. Now back to the days of the gold rush, when sergeant Preston and his wonder dog King battle through storm and snow to preserve law and order as they met the challenge of the Yukon. Darkness was falling as sergeant Preston drove his dog team along the trails of Dawson City. Suddenly King, the Mounties great lead dog, slowed down and his ears pricked forward as he raised his head and looked to the left through the trees. What's wrong, King? Push! We've no time to stop! Hello, hello Huskies! What's wrong, King? What? It's a dog. Sounds like he's in trouble. Stay here, King. Stay with the team. Well, hello there fellow, what's wrong? Oh, your foot's caught in the trap. Steady, Val boy. You'll have it out in just a minute. Steady there. All right, South. That's a bad cut. Guess I'll have to tell you on my sled, fellow. You're going to be a passenger. Here. I'll carry you over to the sled. Sergeant Preston, with the old dog on his sled, drove toward Dawson. As he approached the town, he saw lights in the small cabin of Father McClane, who lived next to the mission on the outskirts of the community. He halted his team. Good evening, Father McClane. Well, hello, Sergeant. Come in, come in. Father, I have a dog on my sled. He was caught in a trap. His foot's badly injured, and I don't want to let him suffer any longer than necessary. It's painful for him to ride over this rough trail. Well, bring him right in here, Sergeant. We'll put him beside the fire, and I can help you with it. Thanks, Father. I knew that's what you'd say. Can you carry him along? Yes, he's not very heavy. Come on, old fellow. We're going in here. Just stay here with the team, King. Easy now. Here's an old blanket towel. Put it here beside the fire. There you are, fellow. I'll bring the lamp over so we can get a better look at it. Now, hold still, boy. Let's have a look at that foot. Here we are. Well, you've looked it pretty clean, haven't you? Well, you've looked it pretty clean, haven't you? Looks as if he'll lose a couple of tunes. Yes, I'm afraid so. You'll be able to use this paw, though, I think. I have a bad limp. He's quite an old dog, isn't he? Yes, and very gentle. He's part shepherd. Oh, fellow.  Would you like to keep him, Father? Yes. He'll be a nice pet. Won't you, Shepherd? Well, he's wagging his tail. Maybe he'll like it. I'll get him some food. I had some venison leftover from something.  Your father, McLean, is going to a doctor. You'll have a good home. Well, he has some food with me.  You know, Father, I think all he needs is food and good care. He'll be all right now. Oh, have a cup of tea with me, Sergeant. He's all ready. Thank you, Father. Thank you. Thank you. Sit down at the table while I get him. All right. Dev seems to be resting nicely now, Father. Poor fellow. He was half-frozen. Oh, he'll feel much better after a good night's sleep. Good night. Sergeant, I wanted to talk to you about Pete Aime's nephew. Young Bob, you mean? Yes. Pete came to talk to me about him yesterday. He's quite a problem, I think. Yes, he is, Father. He ran lots of trouble with Bob. He drinks and gambles, keeps bad company, and gets into fights. I've tried to be easy on him because of his uncle. Pete's a fine man. Pete is one of my closest friends. I thought perhaps you and I could do something with young Bob. Probably talk to him and get him to make a man of himself. I know that he keeps bad company. It is very hard to handle. The subject of the conversation, young Bob Aime's, was sitting in the back room of the gold-nugget cafe talking to Nick Ransom, a swarthy man with an ugly scar that cut down from his eye to the top of his whiskers.   I haven't got the money.  I know you have the richest uncle in Dawson. You told me that yourself when you started the game with him. But I can't get the money from him. Last time he paid a debt for me, he said he'd never do it again. I even had to promise him I'd stop gambling to get him to pay us. Then you didn't have any business gambling with me. Listen, nobody welches on Nick Ransom. But Nick, I didn't say I wasn't going to pay you. Oh, yes, I'm not welching. I'll get them, Bob. I'll get the money somehow, honestly. Just give me time. I gave you two weeks, didn't I? Yeah, but need a little more.  He hasn't any relatives besides me, so my credit's good. You might take it into his head to leave the Yukon. I don't know why he stays around here with a fortune anyway. He'll never leave the Yukon. Never leave the Yukon? Does he still own that cabin near his old plane? Sure. He'll never sell it. He won't let anyone live in it. He's just keeping it the way it was when he made his lucky strike. Does he ever go there? Sure. He likes a place. He's crazy about hunting. He stays in the old cabin overnight. He's got some fool notion about making himself remember the days when he was poor, so he won't get too proud. Is there a regular trail through the woods that he uses to get there? Yeah, there's a trail. Say, why are you asking all these questions? He won't give up that place. If that's what you're getting at... I don't want the place. You say there isn't anybody living there. Not very near. Some half-starved Indians have to steam away. Why? If your uncle could have an accident on one of his trips to the cabin, it would be pretty nice for you, wouldn't it? What? I don't know what you mean. If something happened to him so that he didn't come home for a few days, nobody'd worry about him, would they? No. Everybody knows how he likes to go up there alone, but he never had an accident. He knows those woods with his eyes shut. For that very reason, he might be a little careless. I don't know what you're getting at. I'm figuring a way for both of us to get our money. Fast. I mean, plan an accident? Of course. If I had help, you'll have to pay me a little more than you owe me now. But we could settle that later. Well, I couldn't do that. I mean, plan to do something to him. I couldn't get away. I'd have to stay here till the will is ready. I said it would be an accident. But the Mardis, they'd find out. The next time you go to the cabin hunt and take me with you, we'll fix a bear trap right in the middle of the trail to the cabin. We'll fix it so that when your uncle goes there, he won't be able to miss it.  He won't be able to move, and he'll freeze to death in a few hours. But I get blamed for setting the trap.  We can cover that part of it. Well, say the Indians were trying to catch a bear up there, and you let them have the bear trap. They wouldn't believe it. I'd be with you, wouldn't I? I'd be a witness if anyone asked about it. I could even tell some of the boys about the Indians barring the trap before your uncle goes near the place. Right. It might work. Nobody'd go looking for Uncle Pete because I wouldn't say gone there. Those Indians never come near the place. And when we're sure he isn't coming back, you can get a molly to help you look for him and pretend you're worried. No, those mollies... I can't do it, Nick. I can't go through with it. Listen, I want my money.  And I'll start right now. Nick, no, no, please don't, Nick. I'll do anything you say. Please don't hit me, Nick. All right. That's more like it. Now, tomorrow, you and me are going hunting. And I'm sticking with you to see that you don't forget. It was a few days later that Sergeant Preston went to Pete Ames' house in Dawson. Old Pete had spared no money to give himself all the luxuries possible in the North Country. Sergeant Preston sank into a big chair before the glowing fire, while King found his spot for himself on the bare floor in the corner. I was talking to Father McClain the other night, Pete. He said you were worried about your nephew, Bob. I am worried, Sergeant, and you know I have a right to be. I wanted to talk to you about him, because you know what a lot of trouble he's been. If you want my advice, Pete, I'd make Bob work for his living. Put him on his own right here in Dawson and don't give him a dime until he finds out the value of money. You've got to be a hard thing for me to do, Sergeant. I couldn't see him stile. The people like Bob don't stile, Pete. They always look out for themselves. It's the only thing that'll make a man of him. Well, I'll have to think about it. Going up to my cabin on Fox Creek tomorrow, I can think better when I'm up there. But, Pete, it might be dangerous out there for you alone. If anything should happen to you, there wouldn't be anyone to help you. Well, you don't have to worry this time, Sergeant. Father McLean is going up to visit that Indian tribe about two miles from my cabin in a couple of days. He'll drop in on me and I'll probably come back with him. Well, I'm glad to hear that. Otherwise, King and I would have paid you a visit, invited or not. Darkness had overtaken Father McLean and his dog, Shep, as they made their way to Pete Ames' old cabin from the Indian village two days later. As they approached, the priest spoke aloud to the dog as he limped beside him. Well, now this is funny. Pete says he'd be here. There's no light in the cabin. Well, Shep, I guess we'd better spend the night here anyway. It's too far back to town. We'll go in and start the fire. Come on. What's wrong, Shep? What are you barking at? Well, here's it. Did you hear something? Be still, boy. You did hear something. I hear it, too. Someone's in trouble. I'm coming! I'm coming! Is it you? Oh, Pete, what's wrong? What happened? My foot caught in a trap. In a trap? But how... Wait, I've got matches here. I've been here for hours. Well, it's a bear trap. It's your leg. Wait, I'll get you down. Now, hang on, man. There you're free. I'll carry you to the cabin. Thank you, Shep, and help me to bring him back to life the way I did you. Father McClean had bound up Pete's leg and bent over him anxiously as he forced him to drink a cup of hot broth. Pete, weak with shock and exhaustion, lay on a cot. His face strained and white in the lamp light. Just try and finish this, Pete. Just one more, Swallow. Thanks, Father. Now you must try and sleep. I'm going to have to leave you alone here with Shep while I go to town for a doctor. You must have one as soon as possible. Your leg, it's... I know, Father. I know what a bear trap does to a man's leg, but I want to talk to you first. You can't waste time, Pete. I'll get Sergeant Preston to drive us back here with his dog team. It's faster than the doctor's. Before you go, I must talk to you. I want you to promise me something. Of course, Pete. Is it something about the bear trap? Yes. Somebody put it there in the trail on purpose. Maybe the Indians. You and I know better. The Indians know me. They wouldn't. I don't want them blamed. Then you're thinking what I'm thinking. But I don't want it known. I love the boy, Father. Yes, I know. It was the money that was bad for him. Yes, and he's weak. I promise you won't tell where the trap was hidden. You mean I shouldn't tell that it was put right on the trail to the cabin? You can say it was in the woods. Tail is in the woods. If that's the way you want it, Pete, you can trust me. Thank you, Father. Now, now I can sleep. I'll go as fast as I can, Pete.  I am slow enough with these glasses of mine frosting up all the time, but you'll even snore with that bad foot of yours. Now, stay here with Pete, Father. I'll be back. Pete had fallen in the deep sleep of complete exhaustion when Father McClain returned with Sergeant Preston and Dr. Drake. He slept heavily while the doctor examined his foot and talked gravely with a malty and a priest. Well, there's only one thing I can do. This leg will have to be amputated just below the knee. But the shock of it, Doctor, in his weakened condition... it may kill him, but there's no alternative.  That trap was rusty and dirty. Blood poisoning has set him. You mean to operate on him here, Dr. Drake? Yes. We can't take time to move him back to town. I have everything with me, and it's our only chance. I've had to operate in worse conditions than this. Father McClain! Well, Pete, you're awake. Oh, boys. I'm sorry about this, Pete. So am I. Did I hear you say... I had to cut off my leg? Yes, Pete. You did. I guess that means I'm through. Oh, and not necessarily. You'll probably come through with flying colors, Pete. There's something I got to do first, Sergeant, in case I don't come through. Well, certainly, Pete. Anything you want to do. I want to change my will. Oh. You and Dr. McClain can witness it. Will you write it out for me, Sergeant? Well, of course, Pete, if you wish it. I'd been thinking what we talked about the other day. Yes, I remember. I wasn't strong enough to do what I should have done before, but I can do it now. Pete Ames died three days later. It was two days afterwards that Mick Ransom greeted Pete's nephew, Bob, with a broad grin as he opened his cabin door to admit him. Well, Bob, come in, come in. How does it feel to be rich? I don't work down without a hitch. Nobody even questioned you. It didn't work out as well as you thought it would. You mean someone is suspicious? Not that. I don't know why, but Father McClain never told anyone that the trap was on the trail. Well, then what are you worried about? We're rich. My uncle left his money to the church. What? He made another will before he died. He just found out about it. He left everything to Father McClain's mission. Just nothing? It might just as well be nothing. He left $50,000 of it with the old Padre to be given to me when I proved to him that I'd made $5,000 by working. Henry's, I'll never get it. You mean that priest has $50,000 that belongs to you? The rest of my uncle's money belongs to the mission. What a fine idea you had. But my uncle did it because he suspected me. It's all your fault. I'll never get out of this place now. Wait a minute. We're not through yet. I wonder if Father McClain still has that old iron safe in his cabin? What do you mean? He used to keep all the church money in it. Maybe that's where he'll keep yours. What of it? I got a little plan, Bob. It'll take some work and on, but I think we'll get out of town soon, you and me. And I think we'll have plenty of money when we go. It was the Sunday before New Year's Day and the early winter darkness had fallen when Father McClain returned to his cabin from the mission. As he entered, Chef was to greet him. Well, hello, Chef, old boy. Well, you lose him today. It's too bad I can't take you to church. Come on, fellow, I'll let you out. As soon as I put this money in the safe, I'll take you for a walk. Go on, old boy, I'll be with you in a minute. My Bob, hello. And there's Nick. What are you doing? Get away from that safe, Father. What do you mean, Nick? That gun. Put it down, Nick. Get away from that safe, I say. No, I won't. Let me go. Be careful of my glasses. Knocked my glasses over. I can't see. You stand right here with me. Bob, get the money out of that safe. I'll get it. I'll take everything that's here. Bob, most of that money belongs to the church. And if it hadn't been for you, it would have belonged to Bob. So you were guilty. Then Bob Booth planned the accident that caused Peach Day. I'll carry this up to the sled. Knock on back for the rest.  We're tying you to the sled and taking you for a little ride. As the sled drove off on the well-traveled trail, nobody noticed old Shep. The old dog watched the sled pull away, then limped after it slowly. The dog team outdistanced him quickly, but the old dog followed slowly, and presented his master guiding him. Sergeant Preston, with King beside him, had started into the police barracks when he met Corporal Murphy, who was just getting off duty. Hello, Sergeant. Hello. Just the man I'm looking for. You're not on duty, are you? I know I'm not, Corporal. It's on your mind. I saw Father McClain at church this morning, and he asked me over this evening. He said to bring you if you could come. Said something about planning a New Year's Day dinner. Glad to go with you. I've got some things I'd like to talk to him about. And if it means getting asked to one of his New Year fees, you wouldn't miss it, huh? Well, that certainly is a good persuader. Come on, let's go. Father McClain said tonight. I certainly did. Let's try the door. It's unlocked. Nobody's here. It's probably what I'll somewhere for a while. Let's go and wait for him. Come on. I'd better stir up that fire. Good idea. Murphy, look here. What? These are Father McClain's glasses. They were here on the floor. One lens is broken. Well, that's funny. You can't see a thing without them. They'd certainly never go outside if we didn't have them on. Yeah, maybe he has another pair. Well, even so, he wouldn't leave these on the floor for somebody to step on. I don't know if he's in trouble. Well, the room isn't messed up. The door is a safe. We'll shut.  It's not locked. Corporal, Father McClain's been robbed. Robbed? But where's he? We took money and he came to town to help. I wonder where Chef is. Chef? His dog. He won't let Father McClain out of his sight. Murphy, bring that ladder and we'll see if we can find any tracks. That trail is used by so many people. I can tell Chef's tracks. He has a crooked front foot. Drive that ladder over here, Corporal. All right. Those are your dog's tracks. Yes, but look at these over here. They belong to Chef. See that crooked foot? Yeah. And they lead away from town. The other way. Corporal, I'm going to follow these tracks. No, I thought of something better.  I'll take King and follow this trail. You'll catch up with me, I'm sure. Hurry now, Corporal. We can't lose any time. Many miles ahead of Sergeant Preston and King, Nick and Bob had turned off the main trail and were headed for the hills. Father McClain was tied securely to the sled. A black moon was rising and lighted up the plane before. How much farther do we have to go before we get rid of Father McClain? I'm tired. I'd like to ride in the sled a while myself. Well, where do we get back in the hills where he can't possibly find his way back? The plane will let them just wander around loose like that. I'm available to find it. Nobody's going to start looking for him for a day or so. If his blind is a bat without his glasses, with no wood to burn and no food, he'll be frozen by morning. When they do find his body, they'll think he lost his glasses and got off the trail or something. I hope they'll think he tried to get away with the church money. If he's found shot or murdered, they'll put the Mounties on the case right away. This way's better. Well, nobody can follow a trail from this cabin. Don't worry, and we're here. They can't follow it when they don't know who did it. Anyway, everybody uses that trail out of Dawson. They sure can't take ours out of all the rest. But Nick and Bob didn't know that their trail was being marked clearly, marked by an old dog who came slowly and painfully after his master. King had no trouble finding the trail in the darkness, and by the time Corporal Murphy had caught up to them with a dog team, the moon had risen, and chef's tracks were easy to see. It was hours later that deep in the hills, they saw a small campfire. As they approached, they saw the figure of the priest and the old dog huddled together beside it. Oh, the McLean! Oh, King! How are you, sir? I heard the dog team. Are you all right, pocket? I'm cool, of course. I had some matches in my pocket, but I had no glasses and couldn't find much wood. Chef kept me warm. Put this for a robe around your father? Who did this? It was Bob and the Cransom. They'd gone off with the gold.  Bob Aims and the Cransom. They've probably headed to the border. That's where they were going, Sergeant. I heard them talking. How did you find me? They were taking glasses and then followed Chef's tracks. Poor fellow. He was ready to drop when he found me. He dragged himself to me. His poor foot all torn and bleeding. Father, I'm going to send you and Chef back to town on my sled with Corporal Murphy. Bob and Nick have gone back to the main trail. If I take King, I can take a shortcut through the hills that should save five miles. I may be able to catch them before morning at the head of the border. Yes, King. No sleep for us tonight. We've got work to do. Bob Aims and Nick Ransom had traveled steadily through the night. St. Streaks of Dawn painted the sky as they rounded the bend in the mountain trail that led to the border. Nick halted the team, and a spot where a solid trip of rock dropped dizzily 300 feet below them. Ho! Ho there! Ho! Ah.  This is a funny spot to camp. There's no room. We're not camping here. I can't go much farther. I'm too tired. You're not going any farther. What? What do you mean? You're the one they'll be looking for if they ever find the body of that priest and know the money's gone and know that you've skipped town. They won't connect me with it unless you're tagging along behind me. You mean, you're not going to take me with you? We're going to separate? We're going to separate, all right. But you're not going to be able to squeal when you're caught. Nick! Nick! No! Stay away from me! Nick! No! Don't push me over that cliff! Doug! No! Nick! Ben Haynes' terrified scream echoed and re-ackled through the mountains as Sergeant Preston rounded the bend where Nick Ransom stood at the edge of the cliff. As the figure of the mouth he came toward him, Nick rushed to his sled for his rifle but as he raised it, the gray form of king leaped at him.   He'll kill me. Darkfella, let him up. Take him away! Get up, Nick. So you were at the bottom of all this and now you've murdered Bob Ames. I didn't murder him. He fell over the side, he slipped. You're under arrest for murder and taking you back to Dawson. Sergeant Preston and Corporal Murphy were the only guests at Father McLean's New Year's dinner. The three men were solemn as they seized themselves at the table and Father McLean bowed Dear Lord, let us forget the evil that this past year has brought and think of the good that we can do in this year to come. Of all the blessings thou hast granted I thank thee most for ship. Please grant us the faith and courage that is his in this year to come and help me to follow thee with an equal love and trust. As Father McLean ended the prayer the three men were silent for a few moments. Then Sergeant Preston felt King's head on his knee and he smiled as he stroked the great dawg's shaggy neck. Yes, old fella. It's you that I'm most thankful for. The word for you and chef we wouldn't be here today. But thanks to you, King, this case is closed. 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will come to countersides so an update actually has dropped a few hours ago and we're going to go through the update first and foremost the new units that have dropped on new heroes second would be their skins the new skins that are available for them and the new content or the game mode that is available so let's start this rolling and let's go to so we're going to see the employees and they're here so let's go through Karen Wong first so Karen Wong is an all-around sniper so another sniper which will you know their current meta of sniper is actually Shaolin and it would be very hard to replace her so let's take a look at a low introduction for Karen so Karen Wong is an all-around sniper who uses a special farm designate for long-range interception to effectively attack enemies in the air and on the ground so I think this is going to be AOE the ground in air member of Delta 7 internal investigation department she was one of the last members to join the incomplete counter training project okay let's move on to her stats so for stats these are the her maximum stats so Comet power is actually 10,000 which is good HP is 18 which is kind of in the mid attack is very good it is actually very good as well the rest of the stats are very fragile defense but hit is actually good as well evasion and defense are not good so again she's a sniper she should stay in the back and let's move on to her skills so for her skills more or less you have here for basic skill so fires a rifle target in front targets air units within range first so first priority she will do is take out air targets not ground ground targets for a basic attack second which is her passive skills so anti-air expansion equips a fire I'm specifically created for a long range interception purposes inflicts 50% or more AOE damage on targets outside a 4 meter range I'm not sure how long is that 4 meters but the further that the further the target is the higher the damage which is plus 50% more AOE damage so targets targets air units within range first again same as her basic skill next is her special skills which is mobile strategy bulwark summons a bulwark that knocks nearby knocks nearby enemies backward damage this bulwark moves forward and periodically forces target to attack it for three seconds so for me this is just this is more or less a last resort because normally when you play snipers there are usually people in front defender strikers Rangers that will defend your sniper so more or less the skill three is I don't think this will be used that often because again by the time that your sniper is left usually you're already overwhelmed so special skill is actually a bit questionable let's go to the ultimate skill freedom strike which is summons Delta 7 flagship the new Ohio M inflicts AOE damage on a enemies in the front so more or less I think all of them in a line will be you know will be hit by this skill so do you think she is a good unit so I'm not sure yet let's move to her swimsuit this is actually the skin that is available right now so more or less I like this pose actually by the way better than her last post but the last post was actually good so this is actually new as well new skins for us to get overall for Karen if in terms of priority she would be my second sniper I don't think at this point Shaolin would be would be taken over by her I would still take Shaolin because of her massive critical damage but again she stays behind Shaolin for the meantime let's go to the next unit that just arrived as well together with Karen Wong so it's Ju Shi Yong so Ju Shi Yong is actually a tricky vanguard specializing encountering her enemies normal attacks she can also improve her evasion so she can take on multiple enemies at the same time I really like her I really like her with this description a freelancing mercenary whose moto is I do as much as I am paid for she claims that she's what do you call this where is it she's the epitome of professionalism so again based on her description I like her ready let's go to her stats first for stats combat power is good at maxed stat so HP is actually very good at 40,000 so she's very tough as expected evasion is should be high Crip is actually high and defense is actually good and hit as well so more or less attack is actually good as well so in terms of in terms of again she's more durable because she's a striker of course and let's go to her skills basic skills or basic attacks swings her long sword inflicting AOE damage on enemies in the front so good passive skill will be counterstands range attack damage taken minus 30% so as she is charging when range units actually attack her all of it mercs soldiers or even your counter so more or less it's a minus 30 damage taken which is actually good so she has evasion defense and health which is good as well after every third basic attack she takes the counter attack stands and responds to incoming basic damage with AOE damage so good as well I think this she's actually viable the meta because we're really looking for a hero or a unit that is actually number one tanky enough evasive enough and has high damage and plus right now she has counters so well it's a win-win so if she doesn't counter attack then increases her own evasion by 50% for six seconds so again it's a win-win and level five of this skill is counter attack counter attack damage is plus 30 non counter attack buff also adds attack skill speed plus 30% which is actually very good special skill skill is bite so swings her long sword and levitates nearby enemies she then follows and cuts at them with a dagger inflicting AOE damage blinds the target for four seconds this is actually she actually has a lot of utility that I'm actually in love with her kit already so more or less I have decided already in which new unit I should pull for and I think it's going to be Ju Xin Yong so more or less good skills special skill then her ultimate is first fully stabs her long sword inflicting AOE damage on enemies on front afterward increasing attack and damage reduction by 20% for 12 seconds and stuns the enemy for three seconds so again a very good ultimate skill overall her kit is actually wonderful and it fits the current meta right now for the Southeast Asian open beta so let's take a look at her in her bikini so this is actually her skin that has dropped as well and these skins actually by the way will be found here let's go to the shop so skin here but the currency is admin coin so you'll have to spend for you to get them if you want to get their skins so more or less guys this is going to be selling a lot as well so those are my you know thoughts about the heroes or the units that have dropped their skins their skills and I think who you should pick in terms if you want to choose put the summon for I think it's Ju Xin Yong Karen Wong would be your secondary sniper behind Shaolin for your snipers okay let's go to the new content that has dropped for the game we have here event so you can see here at the bottom after free contracts a new tab is added so this is actually the new content crossroads pathfinder I'll actually do this today and give you guys an idea on how to farm the best stages for this one and the best the best way to get this what's the currency the currency for the stage is this one so you have crossroads gemstone dark red material which can be used in the shop and more or less in terms of the shop let's go back to the shop it it should be around here shop list season then event currency exchange so for the shop more or less there are a lot of good goodies here obviously the t5 gear is actually very good need to get these these are more or less what do you need on a daily basis so you grind this stage as often as you can so employment contract is here so purchase 10 out of them I'm not sure if this these refreshes or if you purchase one then it goes you know it it's removed already I think that's the scenario so more or less good you have prime training data which is actually very important that we're needing you have t5 gear you have apt course and you have employment contracts s8 apt course and actually the good stuff are here so again crossroads would be a very good stage to mine or more or less I think you guys will have to exert more effort here in terms of in terms of doing this so you can see here your crossroads mission so just complete just by logging in so I already got 50 so more or less again there's these are additional rewards for you to get so you have here employment contract as well and this is what I actually I'm looking for the prime training data because I'm trying to upgrade skills for my units and more or less that is get guys great event actually great start for for counter side are releasing a new update after their their what they call this their their release for South East Asia so this is their first update and very good very good characters let it I'll be I'll be pulling 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Later for those of you who are joining us for the first time, the purpose of the coffee chat is to highlight the activities of units from the University of Michigan who are engaging with minority serving institutions. We also use this as a vehicle to highlight exemplars from across the campus who have a demonstrated commitment and evidence that supports their commitment and engagement with minority serving institutions. We also serve as a space where we can share research to expand our understanding and awareness of minority serving institutions, broadly speaking, of partnerships, research that supports our understanding of the students who attend these institutions and that we say we want in our graduate and professional programs here at the University of Michigan and and beyond so it serves as a space for both scholars and practitioners to share ideas best practices and other resources related to these recent these relationships and also to support students as a transition from a minority serving institution into graduate or professional program, particularly our one institution but also beyond as well. Again, I'd like to thank you all for joining us. Before we begin our conversation just a couple of housekeeping items. First, I would like to ask for you all to mute your mics. 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So with that we are in support of respectful or want to create a respectful respectful space for our invited guests for our participants to learn grow and share their vulnerabilities. So please keep that in mind be mindful of the intent and impact of our words and the impact that they may have on discussing our thoughts in this particular space. As you are for those who are just now joining us this meeting is recorded. So the folks who are unable to attend can tap into this resource moving into the future. With that, I would like to move into introducing our invited panelists for today. I will have Dr. Mike Holden when, who was an assistant professor at the University of Denver's Morgridge College of Education, and he's also a faculty affiliate affiliate at the Scrivener Institute of Public Policy and the interdisciplinary research Institute for the study of inequality. His research examines and the benefits and consequences of public policy instruments and expanding or constraining the operations of colleges and universities with the specific focus on federal diversity initiatives. In addition to his academic work, Dr. Wynn has extensive professional experience with federal policy as well, having served as a senior staff member in the United States Congress. Dr. Wynn currently serves as a commissioner on the Denver Asian American Pacific Islander Commission, a member of the board of directors for the Southeast Asia Resource Action Center and continues to volunteer and provide research consulting for education and civil rights organizations. Most recently he was a lead author on an amicus brief on behalf of 678 social scientists in SFFA versus Harvard, which was cited by the US Court of Appeals for the first circuit in their opinion. Dr. Wynn completed his undergraduate studies at the University of California Berkeley in his graduate education at the University of California Los Angeles so if you all don't mind let's give Dr. Wynn a huge round of applause and thank you for joining us in this space here today. And with that I'll turn it over to Dr. Wynn. Well, thanks so much Edmund and thanks for reading my bio sorry that I should have said something shorter. Sorry about that but thanks so much for for the warm introduction and for for having me I'm really honored to be here and to share more about Annapesie's and and how they sort of fit into the whole MSI ecosystem so let me start by sharing my PowerPoint here and let's see. I think let me get this to go right. Okay, so I'm hoping now that you all see the main the main screen right you're not seeing the presenter view but the you're seeing the proper screen. Okay, cool. I did a whole class lecture about a month ago in the wrong view and it was very embarrassing so so thanks. So, yeah, so today I'm going to share more about this one particular MSI Asian American and Native American Pacific Islander serving institutions. Known as as Anna peasies, which is you know just a mouthful for for for a designation and so if you have trouble pronouncing it I usually say think of it like a person's name. The person's first name is Anna and their last name is peasy so Anna peasy and makes it so easy is as I like to say so. Before I formally begin though I'd like to I'd like to start with a land acknowledgement. I'm here at my institution at the University of Denver and so it's really important for me to recognize that that my institution do you reside on the traditional territories of the Arapaho the Cheyenne and the Ute and and the Treaty of Fort Laramie, both of them, as well as the succession of Ford 426 within the treaties of the Confederated tribes of the Arapaho and the Cheyenne remove these Indigenous nations from this land and so it's with much gratitude that we recognize their descendant communities that the northern Cheyenne tribe of Montana the northern Arapaho tribe of Wyoming and the southern Cheyenne and the Arapaho tribes of Oklahoma. We also recognize the southern Ute tribe and Ute Mountain Ute Mountain Ute tribe, which are Colorado's two federally recognized tribal nations. DU actually has a very tragic and horrific past in its founding and and and so and so we want to recognize that as well as work towards reconciliation and so in that are we are University author report the John John Evans report which I have a link here and I can I can send out down the line. That details are the are our university's founders in in their involvement in the Sand Creek massacre so it's important for us to share that and to acknowledge that and then as well as the land acknowledgement as a way for me to sort of think about and frame the type of work that I do in and very much so the presentation I'm about to give today. So with that, I would love to do a quick poll here but I realized that I had to set that up beforehand on the PowerPoint. So maybe I will. I will just sort of look to see I'll stop sharing and look to see hands real quick to see if have any of you heard of an appease before or is this a relatively new thing. A couple thumbs up. All right, this is great. This is I got to say this is probably one of the first times I've talked about an appease ease and it looks like about half the people in the room up have heard about it before so that's fantastic. Let me start sharing again. And so that that is fantastic. Okay, so, so I think you all know that that an appease ease are are one of actually 11 different federally federal MSI programs. I know we often hear about HBC use HSI tribal colleges but within sort of the federal purview of MSIs. There's actually 11 different different designations, each with their own funding stream, each serving a specific target population, and really it signals a federal commit to a certain extent right signals a federal commitment to students of color and and their higher education needs and so I hope that this slide shows you certainly we're going to talk about an appease ease today but some other ones that that tend to get, you know, are not as discussed as much in the literature. So just just to share that there are typically more than more than we're we're often aware of. So let me also begin then by sharing the, the an appease origin story or how they sort of came into existence, the an appease ease are the newest MSI designation, one of the newest and. And so, they were created actually in 2007. And so what Julie park and Rob turn she argue is that the work to create this federal designation really came out of a desire to increase the capacity of Asian American Pacific Islander organizations and institutions, as well as a frustration that the API needs in education were ignored or unknown. And really this motivation was fueled by advocacy efforts by community based organizations and institutions. In order to counter stereotypes about API's and to ensure that Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders were understood as a minority group, and to attach significant federal resources and funding to realize those beliefs. That big that that that big stereotype that feel the advocacy efforts to create an appease ease really stem, really is this model minority myth right I'm sure many of you have heard of it. It's this stereotype that Asian Americans Pacific Islanders achieve this universal unparalleled academic academic success right it the stereotype lumps. And all of us into this model Stacy Lee calls it a monolithic monotone, thereby eliminating ethnic cultural social class gender language, sexual generational achievement and other differences that that sort of do not represent the diversity of our community. Five major misconceptions about the model minority myth in higher education and that one it's API's are not really racial ethnic minorities. They don't encounter major challenges because of their race. They don't need any resources or need any support. Overall degree attainment numbers is equivalent to success. And of course, as we said earlier in the previous slide that they're also either viewed as all the same right as this monolithic monotone. But what we really know instead is that the community is really, really, really diverse if you are to disaggregate the racial group into two distinct racial categories Asian American and Native Hawaiian Pacific Islander. There's, there's so many more ethnicities within that these are just a handful right there's, there's in many cases over 50 different ethnic groups represented here in the United States. And so, there's no way that that all these groups can can really meet all of all of these stereotypes right when it's so so unbelievably diverse and this is just talking about sort of ethnicity and rather than all the sort of intersectional ethnic minorities that that that API is also also inhibit and identify with and so what you know we were to just look at one sort of variable and one metric. And I just noticed here that when I copied the slide over the the the ethnicities are a little bit off so I apologize for that but if you just sort of look at educational attainment within just just by ethnicity within API is and this is using census data. And you can see that there's huge and major differences between, between groups and within specific subgroups and so. And so really this, this approach to creating an appeasies was born out of really graphic like this was, which was that much of the knowledge and understanding of the educational experiences of Asian Americans and so vendors is sort of hidden. In the cover it you realize that indeed API needs need resources similar to other other communities of color, and that was sort of the big push and motivating factor for the creation of an appeasies. If I can continue with this this origin story actually dates back 21 years ago to in 2000, when the Congressional Asian Pacific American caucus or KPAC, as we call it, hosted a forum to discuss API and education issues. This actually was followed up subsequently by by a summit hosted by a C rack the Southeast Asian Southeast Asia Resource Action Center I should get that right because I'm on the board of directors. They follow that up with a summit specifically on Southeast Asian issues in education in 2001. So, because of the events put on by KPAC and C rack, the newly created White House initiative on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders or we are be issued a report with recommendations for the creation of a federal designation for API students and API serving institution if you will. So, following sort of that that that that trajectory, then Congressman underwood congress member underwood, hopefully you can see my mouse here I'm circling over him. This is the first legislation to create to create an API serving institution in 2002. Interestingly, though he actually left Congress, and he's from he represents Guam by the way he left Congress to run, run to be Guam's governor. And so the bill was later introduced in the next session by representative who out of Oregon, and and using the same language to introduce the bill.  And at that time, Congress member who struck an understanding with Congress member of Buck McKeon, who then was chair of the House Education Committee to advance legislation. And Congress member McKeon, in that instance, asked the government accountability office to draft a report to to gather findings on the educational experiences of Asian American Pacific Islander students. And so it was a year and a half later after Congress member was request to advance this legislation from from Chairman McKeon that that the GAO release that report. The GAO, which is a federal agency, of course, an executive federal agency implicitly noted that they were not allowed to say that Congress should establish and create an Asian American Pacific under serving institution. As a federal agency that they're unable to do that. But, but instead they did so implicitly by noting that one there wasn't an API serving institution designation. And that, and they indicated that API college students at that moment in time had to rely on other MSI's HSI's HBCUs, tribal colleges, etc., in order to be to be served and so after that report was was issued there seemed to be some some really interesting momentum. Because Buck McKeon seemed to be working well with with with Congressman Wu. However, if you sort of remember your congressional history at the time this is not 2006 Democrats actually regain control of the House.  Now is no longer the chair of the Education Committee, and instead now the rank then ranking member now chair, George Miller, who the Democrat representing Northern California the Bay Area specifically became the chair of the Education Committee. And actually, in as chair of the committee and as a Democrat representing the Bay Area specifically the East Bay, which is just actually has a huge Southeast Asian population, and just just north just outside of UC Berkeley took over as as chair and he was actually quite convinced that an API designation was necessary. He actually argued that that if you were to create an API serving institution, it would be, it would be serving schools like Berkeley and Harvard was sort of his argument and so it's actually rather curious rather interesting that, or maybe to a certain degree, I should be actually sort of unsurprised that that that even Democratic members Congress who represent large Southeast Asian populations still have a sort of a misunderstanding and and and lack the context for for Asian American But nonetheless, thanks to the the huge efforts of C rack other API organizations in Washington DC of course members of the Congressional Asian Pacific American caucus, they were able to share research and information to chairman Miller, who then, who then realize Okay, yeah, this actually makes sense, and that, and that anti PCs are necessary. And indeed they weren't there to serve schools like Berkeley or Harvard, but instead to serve institutions where API's tend to enroll in which is actually community colleges and regional comprehensive universities. And so with that they, the legislation that had been introduced since 2002 was actually slid into a larger higher education bill, the college cost reduction act college cost reduction and access act of 2007. And so that bill move through the House in the Senate, and it was subsequently signed by then President George W Bush in 2007. So, again, if you if you're, if you're a federal political junkie like me you'll know that once a designation is created and passed and put into law as statute. It still requires of annual federal appropriations to be funded. And so that. And so it was authorized via via the college cost reduction act and production access act, but it would needed to be funded and so. And so after that bill passed Congressman Honda, who actually is is my former boss and I was on his staff for seven years. He passed a help pass an appropriations bill that included the initial funding for for an appeasies. And so that was how that's that was how it was created it was. I must admit a lot of lessons were learned. A lot of lessons were actually learned from the, the whole endeavor and experience in creating Hispanic serving institutions, which were created about a decade before. And so, if you sort of look at it in timeline wise, when the first bill was introduced in 2002, until the law was signed in 2007, a five year period to create a huge initiative like an appeasies is pretty spectacular. And so so much credit is actually given to the Latinx community for helping and consulting with API legislators and community advocates to help push and take the lessons learned from from their 10 year endeavor to create HSI's. So, so as I said, and appeasies were created in 2007 we of course as researchers think of it very much as a federal racial project. But it's unlike other other it's unlike HBC use and trauma colleges right and some more similar to Hispanic serving institutions, predominantly black institutions in that an appeasies are actually a competitive grant that provides funding for institutions, and really with two two main goals. It's to increase. This is part of the federal government is to increase access of API as well as increase persistence through retention programs. Now, because that because an appeasies are are a competitive grant. That means that not in all institutions are going to qualify and so with that. So, really this rest on to primary federal criteria one is that the institution needs to have a 10% undergraduate student enrollment that where the undergraduates identify as Asian American Pacific Islander they use iPads for that. And then the second is if the institution meets the higher education acts section 312 b basic eligibility criteria for title three and title five programs. That's a mouthful what does that really mean sometimes in the literature you see that it means that the institution needs to have 50% pal pal students. That's actually not 100% accurate. And so, section 312 bees actually has a lot more elements to it one is that actually in addition to the Pell eligibility and I'm sorry Pell enrollment, which the statute actually argues as as requisite enrollment of needy students and so, in other words, the 50% pal is one of the many metrics and institution can use to demonstrate. And so what you see here is that they have needy students other other types of finance forms of financial aid also qualify. It's an unbelievably complicated formula. And of course there's a second finance formula that requires the institution to have lower than dollars. And so what you see here is that this is an important important aspect because what it does is it. It's there intentionally in order for community colleges and regional comprehensive universities to be to be prioritized above say an R one institution that that will have a medical school which then would certainly bring up their expenditures. And so, and so that's a really important distinction to point out within the eligibility, and then of course specific to an apetite are sort of geographic requirements so so it purposefully purposefully identifies regions of the United States and in the specific where where institutions or an ap eligible institutions could could be. In addition, it's not if you actually dig a little deeper into section 101 of the higher education act. That's where it also defines that for profit institutions are not eligible to become an apesee and by the way these are really similar requirements for HSI is and all of the other what we like to call enrollment based minority serving institutions. So, given all of these requirements and eligibility requirements. What we've seen over time is that 217 colleges and universities across the United States have been historically have historically met these eligibility requirements, but given as you know shift in institutional expenditure, how sometimes institutions strive to move up in their Carnegie classification, they may slip and out of these eligible statuses and so as of right now currently in 2021. The US Department of Education recognizes that there's about 162 currently eligible institutions so you see there's actually some really really big for fluctuations over time. And then of course, of all of these institutions since 2007 38 colleges and universities have been funded as an apesees. So not a whole lot right not a whole lot given sort of the the number of institutions that currently eligible as well as historically been eligible. And then and then if you sort of put it in sort of context within post secondary education the United States and apesees really represent about 5% of all colleges and universities in the United States. But if you look at sort of this other other other pie, they enroll nearly 40% of all API undergraduate students. And so, yes, there's not a lot of them, but but they certainly, they certainly enroll the lion share of API, you know, 40% so very very concentrated API students at these institutions. Certainly over time, we also see that the enrollment has gone up right if you compare community colleges in 2013 to 2018 that there's a significant rise same thing in 2013 to 2018. A less of an increase, but, but certainly more I look forward to actually re crunching this data when when more updated iPads numbers come out for for 2021. Sort of in the same vein, with respect to degree attainment for API is same thing right we see a huge rise in increase over time. And so see it as well as bachelor's degrees of undergraduates at an apesees across the United States. So, in other words, I guess all those slides really represent is that an apesees as as little as they are in in the United States, they certainly are doing the lion share and educating the majority of the plurality of API students in the United States. And so shoulder, you know, enrolling quite a bit and graduating quite a bit. And so, as I mentioned earlier, right, there there's those three types of, I'm sorry, two types of of an apesees one is that they are eligible to be funded and then, and then of course the 38 that have actually received funding since 2007. And so what we see is that when when these 38 institutions receive federal an apesee funding, they typically establish an apesee programs on campus a specific, oftentimes, single unit on campus to serve API students. And this chair Nishi argues that you can sort of divvy them up into the responsibility into three primary categories right academic and student support services leadership and mentorship opportunities, and research and resource development. And so, with respect to academic and student support services. What we really see on the ground mean is that that they are creating critically and culturally relevant responsive curriculum, academic counseling career development, leadership development, learning peer mentorship, peer tutoring. All of this is sort of operationalized often in in in new or or classes that are that are like Asian American studies ethnic studies classes, where they're weaving in culturally relevant curriculum into into not just classes in the humanities sciences but also in stem in stem fields. And of course, there are a host of benefits to this type of approach right the literature tells us that that we see all sorts of academic and social cycle, social psych, psychosocial benefits that come from this type of pedagogical approach. And certainly, with respect to this context of an apesees, there's there's emerging new empirical research that demonstrates all of these, all of these sort of academic outcomes from from the work of apesees. And I can share all that literature. If you'd like. We also see that that an apesee programs are offering leadership and mentorship opportunities. This includes a huge and wide range of co curricular and leadership development, both on and off campus. And so again, these are framed with a critical lens that recognizes API student experiences and of course, as always, culturally relevant and focused. Again, it borrows from from ethnic studies, ethnic studies model of connecting the Academy to the community. And certainly an apesees are our natural bridges they can be natural bridges that connect API communities with API students on campus. And so we've seen that these leadership opportunities really are designed with the intention to enhance student civic engagement in their communities. And then of course, lastly, research and resource development. The federal funding that comes in is is oftentimes used to to fuel new academic research to expand new understandings of the API experience. We've seen some schools uses to disaggregate data on their campuses to show the diversity and complexity of API students, and we've also seen other institutions actually give out micro grants to their undergrads to engage in research, and not necessarily education research, but any types of research, or on API on the API experience. So it's it these three sort of together really represent some of the all the sort of different initiatives that we're seeing at some of these 38 different different apesees. Now, I'm getting close towards the end of my PowerPoint here but I certainly want to, to show this chart. As I mentioned, an apesees are the newest newest MSI, one of the newest MSIs to be created in 2007 actually predominantly black institutions were created at the at around. time in the same legislation. But if you sort of look at at at funding levels and this is last year's funding levels 2020. You'll see that there are some that the anti pieces are are are are not funded at very good levels. And certainly, you know, it's hard to not compare them to other MSIs. But I certainly don't want to just do that alone right but but certainly recognize that, that given sort of the, the large number of institutions that are eligible and at this when I made this chart that was 160 rather than 162. So sort of the the annual appropriations of a little over 9 million a year. It was sort of boils down to, if you were to divvy it up evenly amongst all 160 162 institutions. What's on about 57,000 per institution, which is not a whole lot. Unfortunately, now I'm certainly not arguing that funding should be pulled from any of these other MSI designations for an apesees that that's the last thing I want to do. Instead, I would argue that the the the pie should be increased for all of these 11 different MSI designations and in doing so, would also increase funding for for an apesees. And, and, and so looking to the future actually that's, let me hopefully you can see my mouse. Let me just bullet point first about about overall MSI funding. And so what we're actually seeing in in in the Biden Harris administration's American families plan right there, their new domestic policy that they just introduced. I think last month, it actually shows increasing funding for all MSI all 11 MSI initiatives by by by five times. So that's really, really wonderful to see so it wouldn't be just an apesees getting a five time increase it would be all of the other MSI designations also receiving a times five increase which I think would be fantastic. And so, so with that, looking sort of to the future of an apesees. We know that we expect more an apesees to be on the horizon. In fact, right now, there is a new grant competition that's that. And so schools are actually in the process of applying to receive an apesee funding. What's rather interesting is that the Department of Education has added a preference priority category. So that schools that have never received funding before receive extra points in their application. So this, I guess that is intentional from the Department of Ed. So that institutions that are not those 38 have a have a good shot of getting funding this cycle. Certainly, I'm sure if you if you had someone come and talk about HSI's that this dual designation situation is a rather interesting one. What it means is that institutions can sort of, it can only be one MSI at one given time. When we, when we know that if you look at a lot of it, an apesees, they're actually also all eligible for the most part to become Hispanic institutions, yet federal statute doesn't allow for school to receive funding for for both at the same time. Now that's actually not 100% accurate. The caveat is is let me see I can go back to slide. Hopefully you can see my mouse is that all of these MSIs are are funded actually into two different accounts there's a part a account and a part F account. So what that means is that a school cannot receive a and a PZ part a grant, as well as an HSI part a grant at the same time. However, a school can receive an HSI part a, as well as an and a PZ part F. So it's unbelievably complicated. And, and it sort of doesn't. There's no rhyme or reason why. But instead, the dual designation would allow schools to be able to apply for either part a or part F. And it doesn't matter and if they if they meet more eligibility standards for all MSIs can just apply for any of them, which I think, you know, sort of makes more sense right given that that a lot of these institutions are predominantly white institutions that over time, given shifts in enrollment demographics become eligible for all these different MSI designations. And so, and so schools can be very compositionally diverse. And in doing so should be able to be eligible for more than one one designation, especially from the viewpoint of administrators and so that is something that had some momentum. Maybe about five years ago and then it sort of went away so I know that those conversations are beginning to to to be brought up again. As I mentioned, as I, as I actually I didn't mention but what we're actually also seeing is that there's an increasingly large number of R1 institutions as well as private institutions that are striving and becoming an appease ease in minority institutions. It's a rather interesting phenomena. I point that out not that it's, it is necessarily a bad thing. But that remember from from when I shared the, the an appease the origin story that the original intent of the legislation was to make sure that funding was provided to institutions that tended to be less resource right so community comprehensive universities. Now we see, we see a lot more R1s thinking about and also private institutions thinking about applying for and finding ways to actually meet the eligibility requirements. And so you look, and certainly there are lots of students of color at these institutions and so I'm not necessarily arguing that that's a bad thing but certainly with respect to equity and for community colleges and for regional institutions as well as private institutions, that is certainly something important to talk about and to think about sort of the future of of an appease ease as well as, as well as MSIs. As I mentioned earlier with respect to funding, we're seeing, you know, the Biden Harris administration is is is all in when it comes to increasing funding for, for MSIs, and then of course, given this pandemic. We've actually seen in this, I think, fantastic that in the, in the, in the last three stimulus bills. The CARES Act, the CRSA, as well as the American Rescue Plan, all had specific MSI provisions within the legislation to make sure that MSIs, including an appease is received additional support and funding, which, which is fantastic. And then, lastly, given that an appease are the new kid on the block, and, and a little over a decade old now, there continues to be a need for much more research. And luckily there is, there is a growing and emerging body of literature, and young and new scholars that are working to contribute to this area and so really given their significant role and, and oftentimes innovative practices in educating a large proportion of API students. I really think that an appease ease are backbone for API students in the US post secondary education system. Of course, as more and more colleges as we seen in the trajectory become an appease ease are eligible to become an appease ease really incumbent upon policymakers. Those of us in higher education to think about and recommit our efforts to strengthening this program for the next generation of API students. Certainly there's much more to be learned from, from an appease ease and the work they're doing. And so, and so doing so I think will greatly benefit not only the practice that's happening at those institutions at an appease ease, but as well as that at institutions that are not an appease ease, but yet are still serving Asian American and Pacific Islander students. And so with that I would would be happy to answer any and all of your questions. And also on this slide here is the very many different types of MSIs. I'm sorry, very many different types of an appease ease across the country. And as you can see, there are a lot of community colleges, schools in the Pacific schools in the Midwest, West Coast, East Coast. And then of course, different types right Pacific University in Oregon is a private institution. You've got our ones like Minnesota and Maryland, as well as regional comprehensive like San Francisco State University. And, and UMass Boston and Queens College. So with that, I will stop sharing my PowerPoint, and that way I can see everyone. Great. Thank you so much, Dr. Lin for that presentation. It's great if we can just give him a quick round of applause, whether virtually or audibly or however you see fit. Wonderful.  And I just want to add one quick reflection that I that I have here and, and again extend my, my thanks once again. So when I first came into this role in 2017 I looked at all the DEI plans across campus and many of them identify engaging with minority serving institutions as a way to strengthen the educational pathways in the graduate professional education for, and I'm using their language underrepresented minorities right, and almost always that MSI man historically black college in a university, which I'm a huge proponent of I'm an alum of a historically black college but I think the value and this type of discussion is saying is highlighting that there are many more institutions out there that we could be engaging with and culturally and intellectually responsive ways, and there are more students out there that we can be creating pathways that are are in many cases often overlooked because we go with the institution that we are most familiar with so that's part of the reason why I want you to come into, you know, highlight highlight these institutions, a little bit more so again thank you, thank you for that. I'm going to open up the floor for, for questions here. And I know it always takes a couple seconds before we get the first question off the ground so I'm okay with living in. Oh we don't hear Sasha has their hand raised so. Thank you for that wonderful presentation, Dr when I've learned so much. And so I'm actually working with a team at Michigan looking at where our focus our research focuses really mental health and young people and we've recently become very interested in. Well, we've always been very interested in MSIs because we've had a few in our survey work, but it's been really hard to engage them. Actually, I've learned so much because, for one I've been calling an appease is a NA PI s eyes and so just having a short term has been really helpful. So I was wondering. So it looks like there's about 160 eligible and appease but only 38 that are funded so I know you talked a little bit about eligibility but I was wondering what it exactly means to be eligible so like I noticed you calculated all of the eligible institutions when discussing MSI funding. So is there some benefit for the schools themselves to be like an appease eligible but not an appease funded. With respect to funding before. First things I should, thanks to I should probably start by saying thanks so much for the great question and for sharing that I'm glad that that the yeah and appease is the that you can easy to learn when you think of it as a person's name. So great, great question. And before the pandemic. I would say, I guess there really isn't a benefit to to being an eligible and appease from a monetary standpoint, right, certainly, when institutions become eligible. Oftentimes you see schools put out a press release saying that you know they meet you know they're, they're, they're designated now which is actually not true per federal statute. It's actually I was talking to somebody else about this this morning. It's actually the Department of Education spot because they misuse that language in their in their in their on their websites but in law. They do not schools do not become designated if you read you know if you look at the higher education act. So that's a fun federal fact if if if you care about any of that stuff. So, so, so to a certain extent, I think it's great that schools strive for that and then they, they put out a press release hopefully to meet hopefully that means you know that they, even if they're not receiving funding that that they are beginning to show some commitment to serving API students on their campus in whatever way they can with whatever resources that they currently have. In a in a coven world though, as I mentioned, you know we've Congress has passed three lot three stimulus bills, right cares act CRSAA and then most recently the American rescue plan. And in those three, those three pieces of legislation those stimulus bills. And there was, as I mentioned there was specific carve out funding for all MSIs. And, and in that though that the funding was actually given to all eligible institutions and not just funded or previously funded institutions. And so if you were eligible, then you received funding because of your eligibility status so that's actually the first time ever. For HSI this goes for predominantly black institutions this goes for Alaska native serving institutions native Hawaiian serving institutions, all those other. What I like to call an enrollment based MSI so this is actually the first time, at least from what I've seen that the federal government has provided funding for eligible institutions. So, so yes there is now a benefit for it. And hopefully my hope is because they receive funding under those designations that then if schools didn't know that they were eligible. Now we'll think about potentially figuring out how to apply and or serving either their API Latin X, Native American and African American students on their on their campus. So that answers your question. Yes, it does. Thank you and I'm sorry I don't want to take up too much space I just have a really quick follow up question to my question which was. So you mentioned in terms of the funding you mentioned that a lot of times, these anti PCs could also be categorized as Hispanic serving institutions. So based on this funding chart that you discussed like would it make more, what would it be more appealing for schools to to kind of apply for Hispanic serving institution funding because they would get more money.  So, so there's a lot of overlap there, you know, in states like California and to a certain extent in Illinois and in New York. You know, so there's a lot of overlap there. If you look at that funding chart again, and I can share a report that we had with up with the exact same numbers. And certainly, institutions that are that are eligible for HSI, there's a lot more funding attached to that. Not only is there more funding but there's actually two other HSI designations that are federal, federally funded right HSI stem and post back to these for Hispanic Americans right so those other types of HSI is and so and so there's actually, if you add it all up there's actually a lot more money in HSI is and so there's actually, you know, no empirical research to show, not yet at least I imagine someone will eventually do that type of work to sort of see the tensions that play out between it does it how does an institution decide which of these designations it wants to go for. And so I think we can avoid those tensions by essentially opening it up for all institutions right, but I do know from sort of firsthand gossip knowledge that that that certainly they have been institutions that that have been awarded both have been awarded a HSI part a and an APC part a, and then have decided to go to withdraw themselves from the an appease grant because the HSI grant was double sometimes double the amount of funding right I sort of can't fault anybody necessarily for doing that. I mean, I can't fault the college admit a college president for doing that because they certainly want as much money as they can get, especially if they're an under resource institution. But I also want to acknowledge that there's there's a lot next students that that that need services and support at these MSIs and so maybe the best solution is to make sure that all minoritized students on the college campus can can can can receive resources from the federal government should also note that those percentages are like our arbitrary right, I mean, how did they come up with 25%, how do they come up with 10% for these, you know, the, you know, this was, you know, these are federal as Gina Garcia says these are federal constructs that policymakers made up just sort of put given given. Those those percentages just sort of based on us population numbers right at the time API is made up about 5% of the national population. So they said, oh yeah 10% seems right about right. So, so that's sort of how how, and it sort of also falls in line with other types of MSIs. So for the non tribal serving Institute, non tribal Native American serving institutions. That's also a 10% requirement. So, you know, they're sort of trying to make the using other MSIs to sort of keep match up and and keep things somewhat consistent. If you want to say that Congress members have infinite wisdom that's sort of the, that's sort of the, that's sort of the thinking there. Thank you so much. Thank you for the great question. Hi there. I have a question for you. Thanks so much for Professor Nguyen for that great presentation. I work with a lot of Asian American and Pacific Islander students that you have I coordinate one of our ethnic graduation celebrations and the Asian and Pacific Islander celebration and it's one of the most recent So, in my opinion really complicated because we're trying to serve Asian students, Asian American Pacific Islander. And so I kind of have two questions for you if we have time, but my kind of overarching question is how is the creation of an appeasies. How does that bring in Asian American and Pacific Islander students into programs that are, that are for underrepresented minorities which do not include Asian American, which don't include a API students so how do they kind of get folded in or are there new sorts of programs created for API students. And with that, is there, are there different services provided for Asian American students versus PI and Native Hawaiian students or is it, they're all kind of lumped together. What a great question. Thanks. Thanks for sharing that. You know, the answer is sort of, to answer sort of your most previous question is sort of yes and no, right. You know that other the slide that and you mentioned this and the other that one of the slides I had shows really how diverse and complex API's are and and that's just broken up by ethnicity right not even including all the other intersexual identities that that that that API's hold and so the sort of complication here is that it is. As you mentioned that sometimes API students are not understood to be have minor ties identities right and so a lot of institutions won't include them in their in their in their u r m variable right if they use that term still underrepresented minority in their u r m variable. And so, and so that that that can be a huge problem right and a lot of that sort of is is again focused on on that stereotype that we can, you know, we're trying to shake all the time that model minority that we're trying to shake but that it is so pervasive.  And so it is pervasive. It, you know, he's a progressive liberal guy I don't want to hate on Chairman Miller who's, by the way, on that slide, all of those members of Congress, as well as President Bush obviously all retired now are not serving anymore in the house so just a fun fun point. But, but but so it that that stereotype that understanding or lack of understanding of API is so pervasive I think that that makes it really really calm makes it harder for folks to understand potentially as well as for us to think about how do we provide programs and services. Just to answer one of your other questions and certainly because of the diversity and complexity. It also means that students are going to have different needs they're going to have different life experiences right. You've got, you've got East Asians who have a very unique history of immigrating to the United States you have Southeast Asians who came as refugees. Native Hawaiian native Islanders who were always here and are are are in their lands were colonized through settler colonialism right so all of those experiences are so different. And so having to be able to I think what makes me on the PC so great is that if use if those funds are used intentionally they can provide specific programming and funding for all of these unique populations. Why are we if it were so different why are we all lumped together. Some of that has to do with with the way we're all racialized to sort of be the same right, but also, you know, in you know, in the words of Dr. Yanley spare to us coming together as a pan ethnic movement to create political power. And without that, that that the fact that we're racialized and thus sometimes treated similarly. As we as we call us together through pan ethnic movements then we can create political power to, as I sort of talked talked about at the beginning. Push in advance legislation to create these, these initiatives so that duality is playing out all the time right is that we are coming together because we have some shared experiences but then we're also simultaneously very diverse very complex very different have different needs. And I think the message I always like to give is that it's not one or the other it's always both for API communities always both at the same time. And that needs to be that's that's sort of the message that I'm constantly trying to push and advocate for. So that was really long winded hopefully I answered your question in that process. Thank you. Yes. Unfortunately, we are at time and I want to respect every everybody's time. Once again, thank you all for joining us and kind of engaging in the space. Thank you, Dr. when for your thoughtful presentation and thoughtful responses provided here within. I hope to have you back again in the future to whatever extent you're willing to join us. And then lastly, I want to invite everybody out to our next coffee chat, which will be held June 23. I'll drop the registration information information will have folks from Fisk University Vanderbilt University to talk about their fixed master's to PhD bridge program that they have there. But again, Dr. when incredible. Thank you for your time energy and for a good day much appreciated. And then thanks so much for having me and thank you all for attending and maybe if I ever have the opportunity to talk to you again, I'll explain why the word Native American is in there when, when, when anti pieces are not intended to serve indigenous populations but that that can be for another time. Thank you so much.


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