As a Chinese American within the AAPI (Asian American Pacific Islander) community, I am reaching to actualize and nurture a redemptive vision of a future for this community. I have often returned to poems written by Chinese imprisoned on Angel Island under the Chinese Exclusion Act in the first half the 1900’s. These calligraphic poems and verbatim written on walls were barely legible. Were these writings on the prison wooden walls done in blood, tears or ink? With great effort the Chinese Historical Society of America managed to recover and translate them into English. In raw and poetic form, they tell a story of a humanity. Here is one:

Just a few short weeks ago, the Accreditation Commission met in person in Atlanta for our Spring Leadership Meeting. We had quite a few programs receive continued accreditation and approved the start of several new programs as well. You can see all of the accreditation actions taken here. In addition to our routine business, we continued our work on the updated requirements from the US Department of Education and our compliance report that is due in October.

Once a month the ACPE Professional Ethics Commission (PEC) posts a couple of statements from our Code of Professional Ethics for ACPE Members. Each posting is accompanied by a brief personal reflection from a commissioner of the PEC sharing some ways this person lives these commitments*. May’s statements are

a. Continue professional education and growth, including participation in the meetings and affairs of ACPE.

b. Avoid using knowledge, position, or professional association to secure unfair personal advantage; do not knowingly permit their services to be used by others for purposes inconsistent with the ethical standards of ACPE; or use affiliation with ACPE for purposes that are not consistent with ACPE standards.