Asians and Cultural Awareness at U of I

For our research project, we chose to study the effects of the U of I environment and other sub-factors on the Asian population. We have gained an understanding of how feelings of cultural awareness change and how students prefer to identify themselves after coming to U of I. We used anonymous surveys as one method of gathering data. The surveys helped us gain a general understanding of how diversity on campus and ethnic backgrounds played a role in the Asian student population???s view of how culturally aware he or she have become at UIUC. In addition to the statistical approach that surveys provided us, we included short answer questions in which we were able to get personal insight about a student???s experience with culture. Another form of research we will be doing is data collection by reading student research done on similar topics in the IDEALS database which both supported and defied our results