What Matters to Me & Why: Jonathan Wang 10/6/2021

“What Matters to Me and Why” represents a creative solution to an important and often unrecognized problem in the university setting: the separation of intellectual life from personal and spiritual issue. The people who shape USC, who teach students the ways of their particular disciplines, and who help them develop marketable skills also have a great deal to pass on in terms of worldly wisdom, moral guidance, and sources of spiritual strength.
Jonathan Wang joined the USC Division of Student Affairs as the Assistant Director for Asian Pacific American Student Services in 2012 and went on to serve as the Center Director. Additionally, he now serves as a manager with Student Equity & Inclusion Programs. He also teaches for Rossier's M.Ed. PASA program. Jonathan has served in leadership positions within NASPA, conducted various research projects, published articles focused on marginalized student populations and international higher education, and has continued to present at both regional and national conferences. His dissertation focused on the well-being of Asian American college students at elite universities and was awarded the Rossier School of Education Dissertation of Distinciton.