June 2022

Governor Newsom and the California State Legislature passed the
state budget and approved the proposal to create the California
AANHPI Student Achievement Program.

September 2022

Added Sections 79510-79511 (CCC) and 89297 (CSU) to the California Education Code to legislate the California AANHPI Student Achievement Program. The program provides $8 million for both California Community Colleges and California State Universities (a total of $16 million) in ongoing funding to serve lowincome, first-generation AANHPI students.

January 2023

On January 26, 2023, the CSU Chancellor’s Office (CO) released a Request for Proposals (RFP) to identify a university to serve as the AANHPI Student Achievement Program statewide central office.The deadline for campus-based proposals was February 27, 2023.

March 2023

On March 27, 2023, Sacramento State was selected to serve as the
campus-base hub for the AANHPI Student Achievement Program
statewide central office.

June 2023

Under former university president, Robert S. Nelsen, a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) was established between the Chancellor’s Office and Sacramento State.

July 2023

On July 16, 2023, new university president, J. Luke Wood, assumed the role and office of the president of Sacramento State.

July 2023

July 25, 2023, outreach for the search committee for the executive director of the AANHPI was solicited (original search).

August-September 2023

Search committee activities – review applications, interviews, recommendation of finalists (original search) – took place.

September 2023

On September 25, 2023, President J. Luke Wood moved the AANHPI SAP Center reporting from Student Affairs to the Division of Inclusive Excellence.

October 2023

On October 30, 2023, the original search was paused for hiring the inaugural executive director of the AANHPI SAP central office.

November 2023

On November 3, 2023, in partnership with the Chancellor’s Office, Dr. Mia Settles-Tidwell, the vice president of Inclusive Excellence and University Diversity Officer at Sacramento State, relaunched the search for the executive director of the CSU ASAP central office.

December 2023 -February 2024

A systemwide search committee was established with Dr. Darlene Daclan, director of Academic and Student Affairs Business Systems, in the Chancellor’s Office serving as chair of the search committee. Search activities began including position description updates, committee inclusive search hiring training, review of diverse (ethnic/gender/regional/experience) pool of applications, round-one virtual interviews (seven candidates), round-two finalist interviews (three finalists), performance task activity, and systemwide community forum presentations.

March 2024

On March 14, 2024, an official offer to Dr. Timothy Fong was made to serve as the inaugural executive director of the CSU ASAP central office.

April 2024

4 Dr. Timothy Fong officially began duties as the inaugural executive
director of the CSU ASAP central office.