UH MANOA ”There’s a need to bridge the experiences between our immigrant and our local-born students where they seek strength from each other’s backgrounds.” Patricia Espiritu Halagao Co-director, ...

Yale is offering its first Filipino language courses — “Elementary Filipino I” and “Intermediate Filipino I” — this fall. The two courses arrive after years of student advocacy spearheaded by ...

In 2021, 19-year-old Marissa Halagao, a Punahou School sophomore at the time, was struck by the fact that her Asian studies class emphasized only Chinese and Japanese histories, even though Filipinos ...

Last week, the Council on Southeast Asian Studies at Yale posted a job advertisement for a lector in Filipino (Tagalog) who will begin to teach courses next fall. The new course offering comes after ...