| 1587 |
- Pilipinos land in Morro Bay, CA
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| 1763 |
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| 1899-1902 |
- Pilipino American War. PI bought for $2 mil
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| 1903-1924 |
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| 1924 |
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| 1934 |
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| 1935 |
- Immigration Act: Manong Wave
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| 1940 |
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| 1946 |
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| 1965 |
- Immigration Act: Braindrain
- Grape Boycott
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| 1968 |
- TWLF (@ SF State) Ethnic studies established.
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| 1969 |
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| 1972 |
- Pilipinos declared “underrepresented” students
& included in Affirmative Action programs in outreach
& admissions at the UC.
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| 1976 |
- First PCN is held at Pauley Ballroom.
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| 1977 |
- Fall of the I-Hotel.
- Raza Recruitment & Retention Center is created.
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| 1980 |
- Pilipinos reach parity (12%) UC system wide. Parity
refers to the percentage makeup of a particular ethnic
group’s representation in the public high school
graduating class. Parity is reached when a group’s
percentage of incoming freshmen equals the percentage
of the state’s public high school graduates. However,
this does not include students from private schools and
community colleges.
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| 1983 |
- The Black Recruitment & Retention Center (BRRC)
is created.
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| 1984 |
- Formation of early outreach and outreach components
of Student Affirmative Action (SAA).
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| 1985 |
- Pilipinos are removed from status as a SAA target group
and early outreach and outreach at UC Berkeley begins.
- Last full year of Affirmative Action status.
- In response, Alex Esclamado starts PARC (Pilipino American
Recruitment Center).
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| 1986 |
- Pilipinos are removed from full SAA protection at UC
Berkeley.
- Admission rates of Pilipinos drop by 90%. The African
American, Native American & Chicano/Latino populations
upon the removal of Affirmative Action later experienced
a significant drop. Pilipinos were then granted “limited
protection” status in admissions at UC Berkeley.
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| 1988 |
- UC Berkeley implemented limited admissions protection
policy for Pilipinos which was a 5 year period to “ease”
Pilipinos off protected status.
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| 1990 |
- Maganda is created to politicize Pilipino community.
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| 1992 |
- The Ethnic Studies Dept denies Prof. Amando Cabezas
tenure.
- Grace Asuncion is attacked due to lack of security in
Eshleman Hall.
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| 1993 |
- Professor Oscar Campomanes is hired to the English Dept.
- The Grace Asuncion Scholarship is created & sponsored
by PAA.
- REACH! The Asian/Pacific Islander Recruitment and Retention
Center is created.
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| 1994 |
- The first DeCal Pilipino classes are offered: Pilipino
Contemporary Issues and Conversational Tagalog.
- The Ethnic Studies Dept. hires Prof. Enrique Bonus on
the condition that he completes his dissertation.
- Graduate student, Jim Sobredo, teaches Asian American
Studies 124, Pilipino American History, during the spring
semester.
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| 1995 |
- Upon failure to meet the conditions of the Ethnic Studies
Dept., Prof. Bonus is denied tenure.
- PASS becomes a Student Initiated Service Group (SISG).
As a SISG, is allotted more money that enabled it to increase
its number of outreaches.
- The Native American Recruitment and Retention Center
(NARRC) is created.
- Alfred Jocson begins the Pilipino American Student Orientation
Class (PASOC).
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| 1996 |
- SP-1 & SP-2 are passed by the UC Regents.
- CA voters pass prop 209. Both eliminate race, ethnicity,
and gender preferences in admissions, hiring & contracting
for public institutions.
- Frank Lozier & David Maduli begin So-Cal Outreaches.
- Community College Outreach begins.
- FED (Family Education Day) is held for the first time.
- Prof. Campomanes is denied tenure from the English Dept.
- Jody Blanco, Rose Luzon & David Maduli draft the
Statement of Concern discussing the decline of Pilipino
student admissions, absence of Pilipino American faculty,
and overall lack of institutional support for Pilipino
American Studies.
- Statement of Concern on the Enforced
Invisibility of Pilipinos at UC Berkeley
- Pilipino Crisis in Education
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| 1997 |
- Senior Weekend begins
- Sal Macasieb forms Youth Mentorship.
- Bridges is created.
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| 1998 |
- PASS is restructured into 3 components: Recruitment,
Retention & Internal Affairs.
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| 1999 |
- Prop 3 is passed permitting student fees ($6/year/student)
to go towards Bridges.
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| 2001 |
- Bridges boycotts Senior Weekend. In response, UC Regents
repeal SP-1 & SP-2.
- ComPASs (Committee for Pilipino American Studies) is
established as a way to organize and provide continuity
in the struggle for Pilipino American Studies.
- Dexter Ligot-Gordon becomes the first Pilipino UC Student
Regent.
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| 2002 |
- Jasper Cacanata is elected to Senate.
- Historian position created to document PASS history.
- PASS and UC Davis Bridge collaborate and plan FED (Filipino
Empowerment Day). SF State, Stanford & City College
of SF also volunteer and attend.
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| 2003 |
- Olivia Layug is elected to Senate.
- Job Talks with Proffesors Enrique Bonus, Catherine Choy,
Rick Baldoz, Rhacell Parrenas.
- Catherine Choy is offered a position in the Ethnic Studies
Dept.
- LA Times writes an article on Senior Weekend titled
“Berkeley Makes Its Pitch to Top Minority Students;
The university tries to sidestep ban on race preferences
by drawing from pool defined by income and school performance”.
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| 2004 |
- The first PATHWAYS is held.
- UC application rates drop 4.1% systemwide.
- Bridges restructures Senior Weekend.
- Joel de Vera Moncada creates the position of Gender
& Sexuality Awareness Coordinator
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| 2005 |
- PASS celebrates 20 years as a recruitment & retention
center.
- I-Hotel reopens its doors.
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| 2006 |
- PASS removes the Contemporary Issues de-cal as one of
its programs and creates a new position, Advocacy Coordinator.
- Nate Cedilla is selected as the first Advocacy Coordinator.
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