By RACHEL

UndocuScholars in collaboration with TheDream.US, The Presidents’ Alliance on Higher Education and Immigration, the Association for the Study of Higher Education (ASHE) Presidential Commission on Undocumented Immigrants, and UConn’s Neag School of Education, is hosting a series of webinars and Twitter chats this academic year regarding working with and for undocumented students and their families. These events correspond with new research briefs that will be published this year by UndocuScholars. Check out these upcoming events!

Webinar: “Supporting Undocumented Students via Resource Centers: What Institutions can Learn from New Research and Best Practices”

Wednesday, October 10, 2018; 2pm to 3:30pm EST

RSVP by 10/8 at  https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/6975637511177539331

Co-sponsored by TheDream.US, The Presidents’ Alliance on Higher Education and Immigration, and UndocuScholars

Description: The webinar will feature a presentation of new survey results of over 1,000 Dreamer students: “In Their Own Words, Higher Education, DACA & TPS: Results from a National Survey of TheDream.US Scholars”; a presentation by Jesus Cisneros, co-author with Diana Valdivia of a new study examining “Undocumented Student Resource Centers (USRCs): Institutional Supports for Undocumented Students,” and the effective institutional practices campuses can learn from these centers; and a panel with campus program leaders who will discuss their experiences starting, running, and sustaining USCRCs.

Twitter Chat: “Implementation of Public and Institutional Policies for Undocu/DACAmented Students at Higher Education Institutions”

Tuesday, Oct. 16, 2018; 11am – 12pm PST

Coordinated by H. Kenny Nienhusser, Ed.D., @kennynien University of Connecticut, Neag School of Education

RSVP at s.uconn.edu/ResearchSeries

Join the conversation using the hashtag #UndocEdu

More information to come

Co-sponsored by UndocuScholars, the Association for the Study of Higher Education (ASHE) Presidential Commission on Undocumented Immigrants, and UConn’s Neag School of Education.

Description: While tens of thousands of undocumented and DACAmented students are enrolled in U.S. higher education institutions, many higher education institutional agents continue to be largely uninformed of how to best meet the needs of these populations. This Twitter chat will delve into several aspects (e.g., complex policy environments, campus environments, and learning opportunities) related with higher education institutional agents’ implementation of public and institutional policies for undocu/DACAmented students.

Webinar: “The ‘Trump Effect’ and Undocumented And DACA Community College Students”

Tuesday, Oct. 30, 2018; 11am – 12pm PST

Coordinated by Susana M. Muñoz, Ph.D., Colorado State University

RSVP at s.uconn.edu/ResearchSeries

More information to come

Co-sponsored by UndocuScholars, the Association for the Study of Higher Education (ASHE) Presidential Commission on Undocumented Immigrants, and UConn’s Neag School of Education.

Description: The burgeoning research on undocumented and DACA students attending community colleges suggests that barriers to college access and persistence continue to exist despite in-state tuition policies. This webinar will feature panelists who discuss undocumented and DACA students attending community colleges and how the current political climate has influenced undocumented and DACA community college students’ navigation of their educational trajectories. Using the state of Colorado as a case study, issues such as heightened white supremacy, uncertain academic trajectories, and creating supportive spaces at community colleges will be discussed. Other areas that will be discussed are the roles of staff development and institutional messaging/communication as essential components of creating an inclusive campus climate for undocumented and DACA community college students.

Twitter Chat: “Deportation as an Educational Policy Issue: How We Can Fight Back and Why We Must”

Tuesday, Feb, 5, 2019; 12pm – 1pm PST

Coordinated by Genevieve Negrón-Gonzales, Ph.D., University of San Francisco

RSVP at s.uconn.edu/ResearchSeries

Join the conversation using the hashtag #UndocEdu

More information to come.

Co-sponsored by UndocuScholars, the Association for the Study of Higher Education (ASHE) Presidential Commission on Undocumented Immigrants, and UConn’s Neag School of Education.

Description: Often times, the conversation about immigration in higher education focuses on the educational experiences of undocumented students. While this is important, it is only one front of the struggle for just immigration policy.  This Twitter chat will outline the evidence for how deportation is an educational policy issue, and makes the case for how those of us in institutions of higher education need to be activate around this struggle.

Webinar: “Humanizing Research Methodologies With Immigrant and Undocumented Communities”

Wednesday, March 27, 2019; 11am – 12pm PST

Coordinated by Lindsay Pérez Huber, Ph.D., California State University, Long Beach

RSVP at s.uconn.edu/ResearchSeries

More information to come

Co-sponsored by UndocuScholars, the Association for the Study of Higher Education (ASHE) Presidential Commission on Undocumented Immigrants, and UConn’s Neag School of Education.

Description: This webinar will feature education scholars discussing the ways that they have developed and engaged humanizing research methodologies with immigrant and undocumented communities. This panel of scholars will explain how they theoretically ground these methodologies, and the impact these methodological approaches have had on themselves, and with the communities they have worked with.

Rachel is a PhD student in the Social Sciences and Comparative Education at UCLA’s Graduate School of Education and Information Studies where she is a Research Associate for the Civil Rights Project and the Institute for Immigration, Globalization, and Education. She has worked closely with undocumented youth in several regions including California, Massachusetts, and Washington, DC. Rachel has also worked in the higher education sector for Harvard’s Graduate School of Education, MassBay Community College, Bunker Hill Community College, Achieving the Dream, and Jobs for the Future. She received her Masters in Higher Education from Harvard’s Graduate School of Education and her Bachelors in philosophy from the University of Chicago.

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