Tag: Immigrants: Page 22

African-American

HBCUs once a haven for Jewish refugee scholars

Based on a book and film, the Museum of Jewish Heritage presents: “Beyond Swastika and Jim Crow: Jewish Refugee Scholars at Black Colleges”

October 28, 2009

Latinx

Minority Lawmakers: No Census Citizenship Question

A coalition of Black, Latino and Asian lawmakers oppose a proposal that would require next year’s census forms to ask about the status of a person’s citizenship.

October 25, 2009

Community Colleges

Stalled Pursuit of Higher Learning

Undocumented students across the country have been hampered in their quests for higher learning by the dismal economy and restrictive state legislation targeted at immigrants.

October 15, 2009

Community Colleges

DERAILED : ECONOMIC DOWNTURN AND RESTRICTIVE STATE LEGISLATION STALL UNDOCUMENTED STUDENTS

As a founder of the University Leadership Initiative, an advocacy group for undocumented students in Texas, Julieta Garibay sorts through the numerous e-mails her organization receives daily.

October 14, 2009

Students

Family, Education Struggles Motivate Immigration Reform Activism

Latino students, including Georgetown University freshman Alma Huerta, are seeking to revive national immigration reform debate.

October 13, 2009

Community Colleges

NC Community Colleges to Enroll Undocumented Students

RALEIGH, N.C.  _ North Carolina’s community college system voted Friday to admit undocumented immigrants at its campuses next year, a move unlikely to bring an immediate surge in undocumented students given a requirement that they pay higher tuition.

September 21, 2009

Community Colleges

Undocumented Immigrants Spend Millions Extra on Tuition

More than two years after Arizona voters passed a law denying in-state college tuition and other state-funded benefits to undocumented immigrants, thousands of people are still applying for those services and being turned away.

August 9, 2009

HBCUs

Ex-Nova Southeastern University janitors testify on firings

Several former janitors who worked at Nova Southeastern University testified before a federal labor judge Tuesday, saying that they were fired because they worked to have a union at the school three years ago.  According to the Miami Herald, this National Labor Relations Board case involves six workers, the Service Employees International Union and the […]

August 4, 2009

Home

DREAM Act Rally Provides Visual Reminder of What’s at Stake for Undocumented Students

The commencement ceremony on this hot Washington, D.C., afternoon was an emotional one for many of the students gathered.

June 25, 2009

STEM

The Browning of U.S. Higher Education

Changing student demographics may prove the most formidable ever for American colleges and universities as well as for public K-12 school systems, scholars say.

June 10, 2009

Home

National Immigration Forum Launches New Immigration Reform Campaign

The National Immigration Forum, an immigration advocacy organization, along with a diverse coalition of labor union leaders, religious groups and civil rights organizations is challenging President Barack Obama to expeditiously pass immigration reform legislation with the launch of a new immigration reform campaign.

June 3, 2009

Latinx

HSIs, Others Look to Census for Aid to Schools, Communities

Advocacy groups are seeing to it that the U.S. Census Bureau has the necessary resources to count all U.S. residents effectively.

May 27, 2009