The Southeast Asian Student Coalition (SASC) at the University of California, Berkeley is working collaboratively with UC Davis, UC Santa Barbara, UC Los Angeles, UC San Diego, CSU Fresno, University of the Pacific, Stanford and UVSA to plan a Southeast Asian Intercollegiate Summit that would work towards the SASC mission statement:  "To unite Southeast Asian communities, particularly those bounded by the historical context of the Viet Nam War, and to address the social injustices, the economic inequalities, and political under representation that they face."

We envision a gathering of college students and/or young professionals who are community leaders and activists organizing on behalf of advancing Southeast Asian communities in the United States from:

• Various regions of California (but also open to out-of-state participants)
• Various educational institutions: community colleges, state colleges, state universities, private school, etc.
• Various ethnic communities: Cambodian, Hmong, Laotian, Mien, Vietnamese, etc.

Please register by 18 November 2008 here.
    
Some goals we'd like to accomplish are:

• Provide a space to share and update knowledge about Southeast Asians on college campuses and in our respective regions
• Develop a network of college students and organizers in the community
• Discuss issues and "problems" in our community
• Work together on an action plan to tackle some of these issues
• Institutionalize a similar summit for the future

For more information, questions, or opportunities to help/contribute, please email: <sea.ics@gmail.com>