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Phitsamay Uy
Associate Professor of Education
University of Massachusetts, Lowell
Education/Degree:
1 Administration, Planning, & Social Policy Administration, Planning, & Social Policy (Harvard University)
About
Dr. Phitsamay Sychitkokhong Uy is associate professor in the College of Education and co-director of the Center for Asian American Studies at University of Massachusetts-Lowell. She is also the co-founding director of the Southeast Asian Digital Archive and a research fellow at the Asian American and Pacific Islander Research Coalition (ARC). Dr. Uy's research focuses on Asian American Pacific Islander (AAPI) immigrant and refugee educational experiences in particular, Southeast Asian Americans. She is especially interested in how schools and colleges support the retention, attrition, and graduation of their AAPI students and engage their families and communities. Her research has been published in Race, Ethnicity, & Education, TC Record, Journal of College Student Retention, and Journal of Southeast Asian American Education and Advancement.
Current Work
Using mixed methods, Dr. Uy and her research team are investigating how Asian American Pacific Islander Serving-Institutions (AANPISIs) are supporting their AAPI students’ growth and academic success. She is examining how having faculty, staff, and programming dedicated to AAPI students builds community, collective identify, and capacity at two different sites: a public, four-year institution on the West coast and a two-year community college on the East Coast. This research has policy and programmatic implications on how institutions of higher education serve their AAPI students.
Research Area Keyword(s)
ethnicity, family and community engagement, race, Southeast Asian immigrant and refugee students