Get Involved with HCAP!
The mission of the Hunter College AANAPISI Project (HCAP) is to support the enrollment, retention, graduation and overall success of Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) and other high-need students.
If you’re a current Hunter College student, there are many ways to get involved in HCAP! These opportunities are open to all students. Click on the buttons below to see more about how to get involved:
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![✨💐 Thank you to everyone for attending our final Spring 2024 panel, Financial Stress & Mental Health! Our panelists led an illuminating conversation about breaking unhealthy cycles.
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✨ SAVE THE DATE ✨
📅 Interviewing & Creative Writing Seminars: Apply in May + June.
📅 2024 End-of-Year Celebration: JUNE 5 | after 5pm.
📅 Want to learn more about
the Transfer Pipeline Program?
Curious to know if you can be
a peer mentor?
Check out the link in bio to read about our current cohort!
Stop by Hunter East Room 1234
on Tuesdays @ 1-3pm.
. . .
Or email Jade Yeung at jyeun[at]hunter[dot]cuny[dot]edu.
Applications open in late May.](https://149517234.v2.pressablecdn.com/wp-content/plugins/instagram-feed-pro/img/placeholder.png)
✨💐 Thank you to everyone for attending our final Spring 2024 panel, Financial Stress & Mental Health! Our panelists led an illuminating conversation about breaking unhealthy cycles.
. . .
✨ SAVE THE DATE ✨
📅 Interviewing & Creative Writing Seminars: Apply in May + June.
📅 2024 End-of-Year Celebration: JUNE 5 | after 5pm.
📅 Want to learn more about
the Transfer Pipeline Program?
Curious to know if you can be
a peer mentor?
Check out the link in bio to read about our current cohort!
Stop by Hunter East Room 1234
on Tuesdays @ 1-3pm.
. . .
Or email Jade Yeung at jyeun[at]hunter[dot]cuny[dot]edu.
Applications open in late May.
💐 Thank you to the wonderful speakers at our Decolonizing Wellness Mental Health Panel. Students engaged in a rich discussion about social change, the model minority myth, perfectionism, and how to unlearn colonial ideas around wellness. ✨ Where do you fall on the #SocialChangeEcosystemMap? (📸 designed by @deepaviyer, utm.75, + @buildingmovementproject)
💸 CHECK OUT OUR NEXT PANEL: Financial Stress & Mental Health
🫠 Learn healthy ways to navigate your own financial patterns, stressors, and responsibilities.
✨ Open to Hunter students of ALL identities. ✨ Free Food!
✨ Date: Tuesday, March 5 @ 3:30-5:30pm
✨ Location: HW 417
🔗 RSVP link in bio (hcap.cc/mentalhealth)
#aanapisi #huntercollege #mentalhealth #throwbackthursday
Are you stressed thinking about life after college? Do you want to learn how to network? Join us for an alumni panel and networking skills workshop! Chat with recent grads about exploring different careers and navigating post-grad life.
✨ Open to ALL current Hunter students.
✨ Free food & refreshments will be served!
✨ Date: THURSDAY, March 7 @ 5:30-7:30 pm
✨ Location: HW 417
🔗 RSVP link in bio (hcap.cc/post-grad-life)
(This is a repost! The previous graphic said Tues instead of Thurs.)
#huntercollege #networking
Are you worried or confused about money? Do you avoid the topic? Many of us tend to repeat financial patterns we see in our families. Additionally, Asian American students may have heavy financial duties and/or be expected to be breadwinners.
Join us for a panel of clinicians with similar experiences. Learn healthy ways to navigate your own financial patterns, stressors, and responsibilities.
✨ Open to Hunter students of ALL identities
✨ Free Food!
✨ Date: Tuesday, March 5 @ 3:30-5:30pm
✨ Location: HW 417
🔗 RSVP link in bio (hcap.cc/mentalhealth)
#aanapisi #huntercollege #mentalhealth
Are you stressed thinking about life after college? Do you want to learn how to network? Join us for an alumni panel and networking skills workshop! Chat with recent grads about exploring different careers and navigating post-grad life.
✨ Open to ALL Hunter students.
✨ Free food & refreshments will be served!
✨ Date: Tuesday, March 7 @ 5:30-7:30 pm
✨ Location: HW 417
🔗 RSVP link in bio (hcap.cc/post-grad-life)
#huntercollege #networking
🌼 Check out our Spring 2024 Events 🌼
✨ Community Events
MAR 7, 5:30-7:30pm - Networking & Post-Grad Life Event
Early June - End-of-Year Celebration
✨ Mental Health Events
FEB 6, 4-6pm - Decolonizing Wellness Panel
MAR 5, 3:30-5:30pm - Financial Stress & Mental Health
✨ Apply to Programs
May - Undergraduate Research Assistant
May - Online Interviewing Seminar
June - Creative Writing Seminar
June - Transfer Pipeline Peer Mentor
ALL HUNTER STUDENTS are welcome to participate in HCAP events & programs.
To get the latest updates, visit our events page! Subscribe at link in bio.
* Events are subject to change.
#huntercollege
🎉🌷 The HCAP office is open! Spring 2024 drop-in hours are Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, and Fridays from 1-3 pm. The office is in Hunter East (12th Floor) Room 1234. Stop by to chat, relax, and study!
Sign up for our newsletter to stay up to date on our programs & events! Visit 🔗 link in bio.
#aanapisi #huntercollege
✨💌 Everyone is talking about decolonizing wellness, but what does it mean? Listen to three clinicians discuss what decolonizing wellness means in Asian American communities. Connect with other students about ways to support yourself and each other as you explore this topic in your own life.
✨ Open to Hunter students of ALL identities.
✨ Free Food!
✨ Date: Tuesday, February 6 @ 4-6pm
✨ Location: HW 417
🔗 RSVP at link in bio: hcap.cc/mentalhealth
#huntercollege #aanapisi
📚 Interested in helping to develop a wellness intervention for Asian American high school sophomores and juniors? Apply to be an Undergraduate Research Assistant!
✨ Program commitment: 4 hours per week, including 8 weekly in-person team meetings. Team meetings are from 1pm-2:15pm on Mondays. Meetings will begin on 2/26/24 and end on 4/15/24.
✨ Stipend: $500
✨ Eligibility: OPEN TO ALL Hunter undergraduate students of ALL identities and backgrounds.
💝 Apply by February 14, 2024.
🔗 Link in bio.
#huntercollege #AANAPISI
🪩🗓️❄️ Don`t delay! Check out our upcoming winter program deadlines! We`re offering FREE seminars on online interviewing and creative writing. If you`re an incoming Hunter College transfer student this Spring 2024, apply to be a mentee and receive support.
🔗 LINKS IN BIO 🔗
#huntercollege #AANAPISI
🌷📚 Are you still looking for a Spring 2024 class? Interested in developing some research skills and learning about Asian American communities in New York City?
Register for ASIAN 330.14! This class focuses on the experiences of NYC’s various Asian American ethnic communities, and links research with policy, identity, and social justice. Students of ALL identities and backgrounds are encouraged to register!
You’ll learn about issues in the Asian American community, practice collecting data, and write a research proposal that you can use later for graduate school applications. Sign up while seats are still available. 🔗 Learn more in our link in bio.
✅ ASIAN 33014-01: Theories and Methods for Researching Asian American Communities.
Spring 2024 Semester.
Credits: 3.0.
Class Time: Tuesday/Friday 10am-11:15am (In-Person).
Instructor: Marcia Liu, Ph.D.
#huntercollege #spring2024
🌈✨ Thank you to everyone that attended our final Mental Health event of Fall 2023! We had an amazing panel of queer AAPI educators, clinicians, and organizers. ➡️ Swipe to learn more about our upcoming winter deadlines. Our programs are open to undergraduate students of all identities. We encourage ALL to apply:
❄️1) Online Interviewing: Asian American Identities in the Workplace.
Apply by Dec 14.
❄️2) Stories of NYC: Asian American & Asian Diasporic Memoir Writing with @writerbushra.
Apply by Dec 14.
❄️3) Transfer Pipeline Program Spring 2024 Mentees.
Apply by Jan 9, 2024.
#huntercollege #aanapisi
🎃🎨 Thank you for attending our Fall De-Stress event! We had a lovely time seeing students` creativity in their costumes (🐢🤡🦝) & pumpkin decorating. We also got to hear from Transfer Peer Mentors as they provided sage advice on managing stress during midterms/finals.
Our next event will be:
✨ Mental Health Panel: Queer AAPI Wisdom
✨ Date: Tuesday, 11/14 @ 4-6pm
✨ Location: HW 417
🔗 RSVP with link in bio
#huntercollege
🌈📚🎓 There are approximately 685,000 AAPI adults in the US who identify as LGBTQ. How have they experienced both the expansiveness and challenges of being queer and AAPI? Come hear from a panel of queer AAPI clinicians and educators about how they have navigated these parts of their identity over time.
✨ This event is open to Hunter College students of ALL identities and backgrounds.
✨ Free food & beverages will be served!
✨ Date: Tuesday, 11/14 @ 4-6pm
✨ Location: HW 417
🔗 RSVP LINK IN BIO: https://bit.ly/hcapmentalhealth
#aanapisi #huntercollege #mentalhealth
🎓✨ Applications for the 2024-2025 AANAPISI Scholarship with @apiascholars are now open! Scholarship awards range from one-time $2,500 to multi-year $10,000 awards. 🔗 See link in bio 🔗
In addition to scholarship funds, APIA Scholars provide AANAPISI scholarship awardees with access to leadership development, workforce readiness, mental health resources, and other culturally-specific programming designed to support them through graduation.
⏰ The deadline to apply is January 9th 2024 at 5pm EST.
*Note: if you are submitting the optional letter of recommendation, the deadline for your recommender to submit your letter is: December 6th, 2023 at 5pm EST.
Learn more about eligibility and how to apply at link-in-bio.
bit.ly/AANAPISIScholarship
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The Asian American and Native American Pacific Islander-Serving Institution (#AANAPISI) Scholarship Program is a collaboration between a national organization called APIA Scholars and other AANAPISI partner campuses, including #huntercollege.
#scholarshipopportunities #scholarship #aapi #cuny #brooklyncollege #queenscollege
😌 Set aside your textbooks and embrace an afternoon of fun! De-stress with HCAP and enjoy festive decorating activities. Participate in our costume contest! Gain study tips & tricks from fellow students! RSVP with link in bio 🔗
👻 Open to all current Hunter students
🧟 Halloween costumes welcomed
🍫 Food & snacks will be served
Date: Wednesday, 10/25 @ 3-5pm
Location: Hunter West 417
RSVP: http://bit.ly/hcapdestress
#AANAPISI #huntercollege