... On July 13, it had the first of its series of charter membership meetings. The potluck lunch was held at EF International Language Centers (a big supporter of CCCSAA) on Chapala Street.

Keynote was by professor John Park, Ph.D., chair of the Department of Asian American Studies and the Center for New Racial Studies in UCSB who spoke on: What is the Asian American story? He is an author of three books on immigrants, including one co-authored by his brother Dr. Edward Park titled Probationary Americans: Contemporary Immigration Policies and the Shaping of Asian American Communities.

Dr. Park cited how the profile of immigrants from Asia has dramatically changed with the switch from the basic humanitarian concern and family unification to the 1990s policies that focused on professionals and the high tech- skilled. He described the new policies to be “much more calculating, more on the cost-benefit perspective” that basically exclude the poor.