Description
This collection comprises materials
collected by California State University, Long Beach Psychology Professor Emeritus John Jung
that document Southeast Asian refugee resettlement efforts during the mid to late 1970s in
California and includes minutes, agendas, handbooks, fact sheets, correspondence,
newsletters, directories, reports, and anthropological survey materials from the US
government and other organizations that were supporting refugee settlement in Southern
California.
Background
John Jung was born to the only Chinese immigrant family in Macon, Georgia in 1937. He moved
with his family to the San Francisco when he was fifteen and remained in the Bay Area while
he completed his BA at the University of California, Berkeley. After earning his PhD at
Northwestern University in Illinois, Jung returned to California as a Professor of
Psychology at California State University, Long Beach where he served as department chair
for several years in the 1970s and published numerous papers, reports, and textbooks on
memory, motivation, research ethics, research methodology and the psychology of alcohol and
other drugs. Additionally, Jung served as Director of Career Opportunities in Research
(COR), a mentoring program for minority students funded by the National Institute of Mental
Health from 1981-2006; Director of, Career Opportunities in Research and Education (CORET)
funded by the National Institute of Mental Health from 1997-2006; and the Faculty Research
Coordinator (1996-2002) for the McNair Scholars Program, funded by the U.S. Department of
Education to mentor low-income students who are first in their families to attend college or
come from underrepresented groups so they may pursue Ph.D. studies. He also became a Western
Psychological Association Fellow in 1995.
Extent
0.4 Linear Feet
(1 box)
Restrictions
Property rights reside with the University of California. Copyrights are retained by the
creators of the records and their heirs. For permission to reproduce or to publish, please
contact the Head of Special Collections and Archives.
Availability
The collection has not been processed but is open for research.