Organization

Khmer Student Coalition


The Khmer Student Coalition (KSC) is a network of Cambodian student organizations at colleges and universities in California and across the United States.[1] It was created to unite Cambodian students across campuses, and it brings individual clubs together to support the wider Cambodian student community.[2][1] Its main event is the annual Khmer Student Coalition Conference (KSCC).[2]

History

Cambodian American students had been organizing on their campuses since at least 1980.[1] VOA Khmer dates the first conference to 2004. A 2011 KI-Media report dates the coalition and its statewide conference to 2005, and Monica Mean, a UCLA alumna, said then that she had put on the first KSC in 2005.[3][4] The coalition and conference were set up so that Cambodian students could take up questions of history, culture and identity.[4]

Khmer Student Coalition Conference

Each year Cambodian student organizations meet at a different campus to network and discuss issues facing the Cambodian and Cambodian American community.[1][2] Students plan and run the conference, and the organizers choose a new theme each year. It seeks above all to reach Cambodian American and Asian American and Pacific Islander students who are underrepresented in education.[3]

Conferences
  • 2011: held at UCLA on November 5, 2011, hosted by United Khmer Students at UCLA and The Cambodian Family, the coalition's first collaboration with a community-based organization. Under the theme "We Are the Ones We've Been Waiting For," about 175 people, including organizers and facilitators, were placed in family groups led by alumni, mixing students from 25 colleges. Three one-hour workshops dealt with the Cambodian American experience and with building and sustaining student groups, and the day closed with skits and performances.[4][5][1]
  • 2012: scheduled for Cal State Fullerton on October 20 and 21, 2012.[4]
  • 2018 to 2019 school year: planned by the Cambodian Student Association at UC San Diego.[6]
  • 2019: the 15th conference, "Going Beyond Survival: Cambodian Intersectionality, Feminism and Education," at Cal State Long Beach, organized by the Cambodian Awareness Organization (CAO) at UC Irvine with the Cambodian Student Society (CSS) at Cal State Long Beach. The all-day program ran more than 12 hours, with four workshops on Cambodian identities, the road to success, measuring a country's wellness, and health care in the Cambodian community. Between 200 and 400 people were expected.[3][2]

Members

Member groups include United Khmer Students at UCLA[7] and the Cambodian Awareness Organization at UC Irvine.[8] Fresno State's Cambodian Collegiate Association attends the coalition's conferences.[9]

See also

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 Khmer Alumni Association, Resources
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Cambodian Awareness Organization at UC Irvine, Khmer Student Coalition Conference
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 VOA Khmer, Cambodian Student Conference to Discuss "Going beyond Survival" (November 20, 2019)
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 KI-Media, Khmer students declare themselves "the ones they've been waiting for" (November 2011)
  5. ↑ The Cambodian Family, Khmer Student Coalition Conference at UCLA (February 4, 2012)
  6. ↑ UC San Diego APIMEDA Programs and Services, 2018-2019 year in review (PDF)
  7. ↑ United Khmer Students at UCLA, Home
  8. ↑ Cambodian Awareness Organization at UC Irvine, About Us
  9. ↑ Fresno State, Clubs and organizations
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