Safe, Inclusive and Supportive

A small office was first opened in Tillet Hall in 1999 and the office then moved to its current temporary location in 2005. Dr. Tho-Thi Bossachi was the founding director of the Center in 1999, and the second director, Ji Lee, still works on campus. The AACC offers a myriad of social, cultural, and educational opportunities to contextualize, highlight, promote, and critically examine the unique histories, traditions, and cultural identities within the APIDA diaspora.

The center currently has four professional staff members, students who work as senior interns and peer mentor coordinators, and nearly 50 who are part of the work study program.

Large-scale programs such as APIDA Welcome, PAN Asian Lunar New Year, and APIDA Heritage Month Programs range from 100-500 students in attendance. The Center also advises 26 of the Asian/Asian American student organizations, several of them with memberships over 100 people.

Activities for 2023 include the first ever APIDA Graduation is Rutgers 250-year history, graduate student socials and mixers that bring together APIDA graduate students from all disciplines, an APIDA LGBTQ series and further develop intersectional programs/events to highlight underrepresented communities within the APIDA Diaspora, such as the Pacific Islander Community, Undocumented Community, Disability Movement and Rights, etc.