Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander (AANHPI) Student Achievement Program

• In 1978, APA (Asian Pacific Islanders) was federally recognized in Asian Pacific Week by Jimmy Carter. The week was later extended to the month of May in 1990 by George H.W Bush (Time Article).
• The term AAPI, Asian American Pacific Islander, has been added into the language to highlight Asian American and Pacific Islander as their own separate parts of the acronym.
• In 2007, AANAPISI (Asian American and Native American Pacific Islander Serving Institutions) was established by the U.S Congress to recognize college campuses that serve a minimum 10% of total enrollment to the AANHPI community (U.S Congress AANAPISI Information Fact Sheet). 
• Recently, the term APIDA (Asian American Pacific Islander Desi American) was used, referencing the South Asian community, or Desi, in the acronym. APIDA has been added into common language and into several university's APIDA Heritage Month celebrations, including CSU Bakersfield.

The community is generally grouped by regions, although it is important to note that some of these can be politically controversial. There is tremendous diversity, with Asia having more than 40 countries, and there are more ethnicities than countries (for example, the Hmong are an ethnic group from Laos). Asian diasporas are extremely large and ethnic identity oversimplifications do not apply. For example, people of Japanese origin in Brazil culturally identify as Brazilians, those of Chinese origin in Guatemala identify as Guatemalans; whereas hyphenated identities are more common in the United States as evidenced by terms like Asian American, or Korean American.

Notions of ethnic and national identity carry political, social and familial meanings too complex to analyze here. See
https://www.api-gbv.org/resources/census-data-api-identities/ for more on identity and statistics.

• Central Asians Afghani, Armenian, Azerbaijani, Georgians, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Mongolian, Tajik, Turkmen, Uzbek
• East Asians Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Okinawan, Taiwanese, Tibetan
• Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders (in the United States Jurisdictions & Territories) Carolinian, Chamorro, Chuukese, Fijian, Guamanian, Hawaiian, Kosraean, Marshallesse, Native Hawaiian, Niuean, Palauan, Pohnpeian, Samoan, Tokelauan, Tongan, Yapese
• Southeast Asians Bruneian, Burmese, Cambodian, Filipino, Hmong, Indonesian, Laotian, Malaysian, Mien, Papua New Guinean, Singaporean, Timorese, Thai, Vietnamese
• South Asians Bangladeshi, Bhutanese, Indian, Maldivians, Nepali, Pakistani, Sri Lankan
• West Asians This is a contested term, most people from the region do not self-identify as such. West Asia is typically referred to as the Middle East; and geographically includes the countries of Bahrain, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Oman, Palestine, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Turkey (straddles Europe and Asia) United Arab Emirates and Yemen

• Runners Involve (platform for student organizations and clubs)

• Kern County Asian Chamber of Commerce
• Central Valley Pacific Islander Alliance
• Bakersfield Chinese Women's Club
• Delano Chapter of the Filipino National Historical Society
• Bhagat Puran Singh Health Intiative