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Latinx

With Dream Act Shelved, Immigrants Look to 2012

The undocumented immigrants who more than a decade ago were just teens hoping to forge a legal path to citizenship are vowing to make the Dream Act a campaign issue come 2012.

December 15, 2010

Students

Adults Blame Parents for Education Problems

Blaming teachers for low test scores, poor graduation rates and the other ills of American schools has been popular lately, but a new survey wags a finger closer to home.

December 12, 2010

Home

Colin Powell, Educators Focus on High School Dropout Epidemic

America’s Promise Alliance, a Washington-based advocacy group released a new report Tuesday on the U.S. high school dropout crisis, which is considered a major dilemma for the Obama Administration’s college-completion agenda.

November 30, 2010

Students

Study: Scholarship Athletes Still Pay for School

A report by Ithaca College researchers and an athletes’ advocacy group shows that the average “full scholarship” Division I athlete winds up having to pay $2,951 annually in school expenses not covered by grants-in-aid.

October 26, 2010

Community Colleges

Think Tank Program Focuses on Nontraditional Learners

Center for Postsecondary and Economic Success advocates for policies and funding for low-income adults.

October 25, 2010

Students

Latino College Completion Campaign Moves Forward With Collaboration Strategy

Excelencia in Education spearheads collaboration among advocacy groups to improve Hispanic college attendance and graduation rates.

September 27, 2010

Students

Advocates Urge Quick Action on Rules Governing For-profits

For-profit postsecondary Institutions account for 10 percent of enrolled U.S. college students but 44 percent of student loan defaults.

July 20, 2010

Students

Undocumented Students Hold D.C. ‘Teach-In’ to Push DREAM Act

A coalition of student immigrant advocacy groups in Massachusetts, Colorado and California on Wednesday launched a makeshift school in the nation’s capital, reminiscent of the “teach-ins” of the 1960s, to encourage a path to citizenship for illegal immigrants through college enrollment.

July 15, 2010

Students

Health Care Debate Carries Implications for College Students

While pundits in Washington, D.C., assess the effect of the Massachusetts Senate outcome on the future of health care reform, college leaders also are focusing on another stumbling block to final action: how the government will treat health plans for 3 million college students.

January 24, 2010

Students

ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES : The Internationalist

Count Dr. Michael K. Dorsey as a scholar whose experience as an advocate on behalf of poor and marginalized peoples is as formidable as the expertise he demonstrates while teaching and conducting research in his capacity as an assistant professor of environmental studies at Dartmouth College.

January 6, 2010

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

Report Highlights Growing Recognition of Nontraditional Students at Hispanic-Serving Institutions

Treating nontraditional students as an asset rather than as a liability has marked stellar leadership among presidents at Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSIs), according to “Leading in Changing America: Presidential Perspectives from Hispanic-Serving Institutions,” a report released this week by the advocacy group Excelencia in Education.

June 4, 2009