Statistical Portrait of HMoob American College Students in Wisconsin:
Descriptive Demographic Findings from the College Paj Ntaub Survey of University of Wisconsin Students (2026)
Connected by Common Threads
HMoob students’ experience on the first Hmong Design Internship in Vietnam in the UW–Madison School of Human Ecology. One of the students is undergraduate researcher Edward Xiong.
Participatory Action Research Team
Student Engaged Participatory Action Research to investigate and improve the experiences of HMoob American college students
Our HMoob American College Paj Ntaub is an ongoing qualitative participatory action research project conducted in partnership with a student organization at UW–Madison called the HMoob American Studies Committee (HMASC) that examines the sociocultural and institutional factors impacting the college experiences of HMoob American students.
Participatory Action Research (PAR) is a partnership approach to action research that emphasizes participation from members of the community most affected by the research phenomenon through authentic collaboration and shared decision-making to answer questions most important to them and use what they have learned to generate actionable change.
Community Resources and Engagement
A group of participatory action researchers and research projects
The Student Engaged Participatory Action Research Center (SEPARC) is housed within the Wisconsin Center for Education Research at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. SEPARC partners with historically marginalized or minoritized student groups in higher education settings to investigate the educational issues and experiences important to them through critical race, decolonial, and feminist lenses. Our largest project to date is Our HMoob American College Paj Ntaub, which examines the college experiences of HMoob American students in Wisconsin. To learn more about us and some of our mission-related activities:
PAR Scholarship & Community Events
We provide workshops to teach other researchers how to incorporate participatory approaches in their work, host social justice education events, and facilitate public presentations and webinars of PAR scholarship.
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SEPARC is being funded by the racial equity grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF). The opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed here are those of the UW-Madison Paj Ntaub research team and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation
