Blog Posts
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A new kind of care: One HMoob nursing student and the aspiration to give back
By Kadjata Bah While pursuing STEM and STEM-related majors, some HMoob students are motivated by the idea of giving back to and re-engaging with their communities. This blog continues to follow Sarah,…
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Giving Back and What Motivates Us: A Life Purpose for Some, an Overwhelming Weight for Others — or Both?
By Javit Thao, UW–Oshkosh As children of immigrants, HMoob students often have a strong motivation to be academically successful, become financially stable, and maintain cultural proficiency. Oftentimes, they feel an immense responsibility…
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Queering the UW Systems: An Homage to Our Queer HMoob Participants
By Steven Yang Queerness as/is Action “Queerness” is a term that encompasses a plethora of identities and concepts. It is a term that actively critiques and challenges power, rather than being merely…
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Limited Institutional Resources: A Reflection of UWO’s Recruitment and Participation
By Vincent Lee Our preliminary data from Spring 2023 reveals that the low participation in a survey and interview for the College Paj Ntaub study may be related to the lack of…
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Addressing Isolation: Hmong Studies’ Impacts on Belonging
By Andy Yang HMoob students at UW-Oshkosh continuously expressed feelings of isolation and lack of belonging on campus. According to an interview with Yuli, a nursing student, she stated that, Like Yuli,…
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How Might Co-Ethnic Studies Foster Campus Belonging for Minoritized College Students?
By Steven Yang and Matthew Wolfgram Co-Ethnic Studies Courses Ethnic studies is an academic discipline focused on the study of power relations and their impact on minoritized communities, which emerged out of…
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“This White Lady Just … Pulled Me Out”: The Experiences and Consequences of ELL Pullout for HMoob Students in Wisconsin in the Early 2000s
By Matthew Wolfgram and Kiera Hook The Our HMoob American College Paj Ntaub research team is a participatory action research (PAR) project that focuses on HMoob student experiences that support and obstruct…
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The Future Outside of Borders and Empires
By Lisa Yang From an early age, I’ve often heard HMoob adults going through deep sadness, mourning the fact that HMoob tsis muaj teb chaws, or how HMoob don’t have a country.…
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Opening the Institutional Curtain for HMoob Students
By Chundou Her A hot day in June can’t stop pre-health students from showing up in their business casual best for networking and getting support for med school. I was woefully underdressed…
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How STEM Peer Mentorship Programs Build Community and Student Empowerment
By Mai Chong Yang The “Our HMoob American College Paj Ntaub” research team has identified several factors such as academic gatekeeping, transactional advising, STEM pushout, and institutional invisibility that impact HMoob American…
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
