Dear OCA Chapters and Members,
Recently, Congress reauthorized the Higher Education Act and permanently established the *Asian American and Native American Pacific Islander Serving Institutions* (AANAPISI) program, which, similar to other minority serving institutions programs, provides grants to colleges and universities that serve considerable numbers of low income students, particularly underserved Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders (AAPIs).
We are asking OCA chapters and members to do the following in order to gain support for this important issue in the House of Representatives.
1) *CONTACT YOUR REPRESENTATIVE* by sending a letter (Word document entitled ‘CongressmanTemplate’) and Representative Wu's ‘Dear Colleague’ letter attached to this email (Word document entitled ‘DearColleague’). To find your House representative, please refer to: http://www.house.gov/
Template Letter for Congressman - http://www.ocanational.org/images/stories/docscenter/congressmantemplate.doc
(Please make sure to include the ‘Dear Colleague’ letter when writing your representative) Representative Wu's 'Dear Colleague' letter - http://www.ocanational.org/images/stories/docscenter/dearcolleague.doc
2) *CONTACT COLLEGES* that are eligible for the funding (...pdf file entitled 'Institutions’), and have them actively request for these funds themselves. Institutions - http://www.ocanational.org/images/stories/docscenter/institutions.pdf
We ask that you contact your Representative with the letters provided by Monday, March 30, 2009. The deadline for Representatives to sign-on is *Tuesday, March 31, 2009*.
Please submit to Douglas Lee at dlee@ocanational.org any action you or your chapter conducts.
Thanks,
OCA National Center.
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