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Sacramento State Creates Nation's First Black Honors College
By Jamal Watson | Diverse | Feb. 15, 2024 | Photo Courtesy of SACtoday Staff Sacramento State — home to the largest number of Black students within the California State University (CSU) system — is launching what will become the nation’s first-ever Black Honors College. Slated to begin operating in ... -
Si constituyeran un país, latinos en EU serían la quinta economía del orbe
Por Fernando Camacho Servín | La Jornada | Feb. 24, 2024 | Foto Cortesia de Danny Johnston Si se considerara como un país aparte, la población de origen latino que vive en Estados Unidos –y muy particularmente la mexicana– significaría la quinta economía de todo el mundo, debido a que ... -
‘No allies left’: Dreamers, DACA recipients are left out amid rightward shift on immigration
DACA recipients once had political leverage and hopes for legalizing their status, but they were a glaring omission in the failed border deal. By Suzanne Gamboa | NBC News | Feb. 10, 2024 | Photo By Saul Loeb Young undocumented immigrants known as "Dreamers" once had the political leverage to ... -
Presidents’ Alliance Steering Committee’s Letter to White House and Congress For Inclusion of Relief for ...
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UCLA doubles down on ethnic studies expansion amid fraught national politics
By Teresa Watanabe | Los Angeles Times | Feb. 5, 2024 | Photo By Mel Melcon More than five decades ago, Morgan Chu was taught a version of American history that all but ignored the experiences of Asian Americans like him. Chu, an attorney who grew up in New York ... -
Yet another FAFSA problem: Many noncitizens can't fill it out
By Sequoia Carrillo & Janet W. Lee | NPR | Feb. 13, 2024 | Photo by John Lamb Most days, Vanessa Cordova Ramirez wakes at 6 a.m. to take care of her little brother, walk the puppy, make breakfast, and tidy up her family's Queens apartment before heading to school. ... -
UC won’t hire its immigrant students without legal status, work permits
By Teresa Watanabe | Los Angeles Times | Jan. 26 2024 | Photo By Jay. L Clendenin University of California regents declined Thursday to move forward on a bold plan to hire immigrant students who lack legal work authorization, crushing the hopes of thousands of young people seeking to escape ... -
UC enrolls record number of California undergrads in fall 2023, cuts out-of-state students
By Teresa Watanabe | Los Angeles Times | JAN. 19, 2024 | Photo By Jay L. Clendenin The University of California enrolled a record number of California undergraduates in fall 2023, reducing the number of students from other states and countries as it met public and political demands to give ... -
Bipartisan DACA legislation could help employment in Wisconsin for needed areas, but could stall in ...
By Ricardo Torres | Milwaukee Journal Sentinel | JAN. 16, 2024 | Photo By Jovanny Hernandez Wisconsin desperately needs nurses, and Pamela Rubalcava is planning to graduate in the spring with a degree in nursing from Carroll University. But Rubalcava might not be able to get a license because she ... -
Senate unanimously passes DACA-related bill to help ‘Dreamers’
Originally Published By Tacoma Weekly | JAN. 17, 2024 | Photo By Johnathan Ernst Nearly a decade after the Republican-led Senate Majority Coalition Caucus unveiled its REAL Hope Act to support education opportunities for Washington’s "Dreamers” – people who were brought into the United States illegally as minors – the ...
