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Rachel E. Freeman-Wong – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Undocumented youth have been powerful leaders in the undocumented immigrant rights movement to advance a more just society for immigrant communities (Nicholls, 2013; Perez, 2016). Community colleges are important spaces in the higher education sector because most undocumented college students attend community colleges (Teranishi et al., 2011).…
Descriptors: Undocumented Immigrants, Community College Students, Activism, Social Justice
Suh, Emily KyungJin – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Immigrant students access community colleges with increasing frequency (Teranishi, Suarez-Orozco, & Suarez-Orozco, 2011); however, the majority of research focuses on Generation 1.5 students who completed K-12 education in the U.S. Generation 1 learners are defined in this study as adult immigrants (Rumbaut, 2004) and adult learners (Knowles,…
Descriptors: Immigrants, Community Colleges, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Leinbach, D. Timothy; Bailey, Thomas R. – Community College Research Center, Columbia University, 2006
The City University of New York (CUNY) has played a central role in educating minority and immigrant New Yorkers, and Hispanics comprise the largest minority and immigrant populations in the City. To examine the extent to which CUNY provides Hispanic native-born and immigrant students with access and the opportunity for achievement, a study was…
Descriptors: Immigrants, Access to Education, Hispanic American Students, Academic Achievement
Crain, William – Academe, 2003
African Americans were largely absent from a college that was emblematic of democratic opportunity. Established as the Free Academy in 1847, City College had given thousands of poor and working-class students and recent immigrants the chance for a college education they couldn't otherwise afford. But even during the 1960s, the student body of City…
Descriptors: African American Students, Civil Rights, Open Enrollment, Immigrants
Geiman, J. – Center for Law and Social Policy, Inc. (CLASP), 2021
Immigrant students, including Dreamers, face significant barriers in accessing a postsecondary education and have faced increased hardship as a result of the pandemic with little access to additional supports. As part of the ongoing negotiations of the Build Back Better Act, the America's College Promise program, which would have guaranteed two…
Descriptors: Immigrants, Eligibility, Undocumented Immigrants, Barriers
Kent Spanos, Kristin – George W. Bush Institute, Education Reform Initiative, 2022
The Biden Administration expects to resettle 95,000 Afghan evacuees in communities across the United States by September 2022. Some evacuees come to the United States with strong English proficiency and years of experience working as entrepreneurs or community leaders or for the United States military. Others, especially women, have had limited…
Descriptors: Refugees, Land Settlement, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
García, Rosa M.; Banerjee, Asha – Center for Law and Social Policy, Inc. (CLASP), 2020
The COVID-19 pandemic and the economic recession have disrupted the health and economic wellbeing of postsecondary students, families, and the nation's colleges and universities. A college degree can lead to good jobs with benefits--now and during the economic recovery--for students with low incomes, particularly students of color, opportunity…
Descriptors: Pandemics, COVID-19, Low Income Groups, Economic Climate
Illinois Community College Board, 2021
The mission and vision of adult education is to provide every individual in Illinois access to Adult Education and Literacy services. In Illinois, more than 1.15 million adults have less than 12 grades of formal education, approximately 2.8 million Illinois residents speak a language other than English in their home, and more than 350,944…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Literacy, Federal Legislation, Planning