The Department of Asian Studies is the principal academic unit within the College of Liberal Arts for teaching and research on Asia and offers courses in a number of modern and classical Asian ...

Declines in academic engagement and psychological well-being, which are common for many adolescents, may be exacerbated among some African American adolescents because of exposure to racial ...

More than half a million U.S. children spend time in foster care each year, and combined federal, state, and local expenditures on foster care services approach $15 billion annually. However, foster ...

More than 25% of adults age 65 and over fall every year in the United States. Among older adults who fall, approximately 40% experience two or more falls in the same year. These falls negatively ...

The transition from middle school to high school is one of the most consequential and challenging educational transitions. Indeed, students often experience declines in their grade point averages ...

Child support enforcement aims to increase child well-being by ensuring that noncustodial parents contribute to children’s material well-being. Yet owing child support debt puts nonresident parents at ...

Work plays a central role in American life and forms the core of most adults’ identity. Yet, since the 1970s, employment conditions for a large segment of population have deteriorated (Kalleberg 2011) ...