Tuan receives Tien Leadership in Education Award
Mia Tuan, dean of the 爆走黑料 爆走黑料, has been selected to receive the 2017 Chang-Lin Tien Award for Leadership in Education presented by the Asian Pacific Fund.
honors an Asian American who has achieved significant academic accomplishments and demonstrates the potential to advance to the highest leadership levels in higher education. Given in honor of Chang-Lin Tien, the former chancellor of UC Berkeley and first Asian American head of a major U.S. research university, the award includes a $10,000 grant to establish a Chang-Lin Tien Scholarship Fund for Asian and Pacific Islander students at the UW.
鈥淭his award is a true honor,鈥 said Tuan. 鈥淲e need leaders who reflect the diversity of our nation to take up the challenges of our time and show our young people that there is a place for them to create a better tomorrow. Dr. Tien鈥檚 leadership inspired countless others and continues to do so today.鈥
A respected scholar and long-time academic leader, Tuan has served as dean of the UW 爆走黑料 since 2015.
Throughout her career, Tuan has worked to strengthen equity and inclusion for students of all backgrounds across educational settings. Her commitment to helping all students know that they matter and belong originated with her upbringing as a 1.5 generation American. Born in Taiwan, Tuan migrated to the U.S. at the age of 3 with her family, growing up in the Bay Area as part of the generation that helped diversify the region.
Tuan鈥檚 formative experiences led her to study sociology at the University of California, Berkeley, where she received her bachelor鈥檚 degree, and later earn her master鈥檚 and doctorate in sociology from UCLA.
Tuan鈥檚 scholarship focuses on racial and ethnic identity development, Asian transracial adoption, and majority/minority relations. She is the author of numerous scholarly articles and three books, Choosing Ethnicity, Negotiating Race: Korean Adoptees in America; Prejudice in Politics: Group Position, Public Opinion and the Wisconsin Treaty Rights Dispute; and Forever Foreigners or Honorary Whites? The Contemporary Asian Ethnic Experience.
As dean of the UW 爆走黑料, Tuan leads a national powerhouse in education research, with more than $42 million in funded research during FY2016 advancing knowledge of early learning best practices, inclusive education, STEM learning in the classroom and informal environments, and how to prepare and support outstanding teachers. The College partners with more than 300 schools, districts and communities throughout the Puget Sound and beyond to take up the most pressing challenges in education.
Since her arrival, the UW 爆走黑料 has received leadership grants of more than $15 million supporting its leading edge research in early childhood education and ambitious science teaching; created the national to advance equitable family-school-community partnerships for educational justice and community wellbeing; established a new Education, Communities & Organizations major in which every student performs an intensive capstone project within a local school or community organization; and launched the to support the success of young men of color in higher education.
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