Asian Americans Fast Becoming Dominant Face of Elite Campus Evangelicalism
Top U.S. Campuses Seeing Rise of Asian American Evangelicals
By Lillian Kwon
Christian Post Reporter
Thu, May. 24 2007

On many of the nation's elite university campuses, Asian American evangelicals have increasingly become exemplars of evangelical piety. They're fast dominating Christian campus groups and campus fellowship leaders say they're just touching the tip of the ethnic group.

Asian Americans make up 4.4 percent of the U.S. population. At Ivy League colleges like Yale, Harvard, and Columbia, they constitute more than 15 percent of student enrollment and over 40 percent at UC Berkeley, UCLA and UC Irvine, according to Rebecca Y. Kim, author of God's New Whiz Kids?.

And many of the Christian fellowships on campus that were predominantly white are now predominantly Asian American. There are 50 evangelical Christian groups at UC Berkeley and UCLA alone, and 80 percent of their members are Asian American, Kim wrote. the rest