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LBUSD Jon Mayer: New Board President selected based on experience
By: LB Post - Jul. 19, 2020 Last week the Long Beach Unified School District Board of Education voted unanimously to elect Diana Craighead as its president, and Megan Kerr as its vice president. Later in the week, the board received a letter signed by nearly fifty leaders of the Latinx community expressing their ... -
CMSC-CHRCL to file class-action lawsuit against US Dept. of Education & Secretary Betsy DeVos
The California-Mexico Studies Center (CMSC) is working with the Center for Human Rights and Constitutional Law (CHRCL) to file a potential class-action lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Education and Secretary Betsy DeVos’ discriminatory exclusion of DACA, TPS, and other immigrant students from the CARES Act benefits for colleges and universities. While the bill ... -
Cal State Stands Alone
As many colleges line up to say they'll be reopening campuses, California State University is planning for most courses to be online. What makes the system different? By: Lilah Burke, Inside Higher Ed – May 14, 2020 The California State University system is planning for the worst. The system's chancellor ... -
California community colleges sue U.S. for denying COVID-19 funds to undocumented students, others
By: NINA AGRAWAL, Staff writer, Los Angeles Times – May 13, 20206:15 PM The nation’s largest community college system is suing the federal government for denying coronavirus relief funds to more than a half-million California students, including DACA recipients and many of those from low-income families. California Community Colleges Chancellor Eloy ... -
Undocumented Students in Higher Education: How Many Students Are in U.S. Colleges and Universities and ...
By: New American Economy and President's Alliance April 15, 2020 As SCOTUS decision looms, 87% of DACA-eligible students are enrolled in undergraduate programs, 13% are enrolled in graduate-level programs In partnership with the Presidents’ Alliance on Higher Education and Immigration, NAE released a new report, Undocumented Students in Higher Education: How Many ... -
DeVos bars undocumented college students from emergency aid
By MICHAEL STRATFORD, POLITICO - APRIL 21, 2020 The new guidance prevents undocumented students from accessing the money, although the law includes no explicit restrictions on which students could receive the grants. The Trump administration on Tuesday prohibited undocumented college students from receiving emergency federal cash assistance for expenses like food, ... -
Recordando a Benito Juárez
Por Juan Carlos Mendoza Sánchez, Tiempo de Laredo ~ March 21, 2020 Hace 214 años, el 21 de marzo de 1806, nació en el pueblo de Guelatao, en el Virreinato de la Nueva España, Benito Juárez García; un indio zapoteca quien se convertiría en el más grande estadista que ha ... -
Firma el Cecut convenio para la difusión de la cultura chicana
Por: Redacción, El Imparcial – 20 Enero 2020 Tijuana, BC.- Con el objetivo de propiciar el intercambio artístico binacional e impulsar proyectos conjuntos, el Centro Cultural Tijuana, organismo de la Secretaría de Cultura del Gobierno de México, y el Centro de Estudios California-México, suscribieron un convenio de colaboración. La directora general del Cecut, ... -
Firma el CECUT convenio de colaboración para la difusión de la cultura chicana
Unen esfuerzos los titulares del Centro Cultural Tijuana y el Centro de Estudios California-México de la Universidad de California en Long Beach. Publicado por Centro Cultural Tijuana - CECUT, 20 Enero 2020 TIJUANA, B.C.- Con el objetivo de propiciar el intercambio artístico binacional e impulsar proyectos conjuntos, el Centro Cultural ... -
Keeping the Dream Alive: Shifting the Undocumented Narrative from Surviving to Thriving
This Monday, Dec. 2nd, 2019, the California-Mexico Studies Center (CMSC) Team had the honor to participate and present at Sacramento State's 4th Annual Keeping the Dream Alive Conference, an event dedicated to enable educators and professionals to become agents of change in their respective institutions and advance the educational success ...