The Jack Kent Cooke Foundation is offering up to $40,000 per year to students transferring from two-year and community colleges. Each award will help students cover a significant share of their educational expenses – including tuition, living expenses, books and required fees –… Read More ›
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The Jack Kent Cooke Foundation Scholarship: Open to undocumented high school seniors
The Jack Kent Cooke Foundation College Scholarship Program is open to high school seniors with financial need who seek to attend college/university. Selected from a nationwide pool of applicants, up to 40 students will become Jack Kent Cooke Scholars and have… Read More ›
Los Otros Dreamers: Must-read book on undocumented young adults
Los Otros Dreamers (The Other Dreamers), by Jill Anderson and Nin Solis, is a book that features the experiences, dreams, challenges, achievements (and much more) of undocumented youth who grew up in the United States and have either been deported, or… Read More ›
Intern-Scholarship opportunity open to undocumented students in the Bay Area, CA
The Marcus Foster Education Fund (MFEF) is excited to announce a new intern-scholarship opportunity for local Bay Area college students to gain first-hand experience in a unique education non-profit and leading agency in the Bay. MFEF seeks to hire a… Read More ›
Scholarship opportunity for undocumented students in Illinois
The Anhelo Project is a non-for-profit organization in Chicago, which seeks to support undocumented students, who despite growing up in the United States and earning a high school diploma, continuously face challenging road blocks when pursuing a post-secondary education. As undocumented students, the… Read More ›
Traveling abroad with DACA: Alexis’ experience, advice, and timeline!
By ALEXIS (Interviewed by Jairo) Alexis was born in Lagos de Moreno, Jalisco, México. He immigrated to the U.S. in 1996 with his parents at age two. Alexis grew up on a farm in Stockton CA, and graduated from his high… Read More ›
Undergraduate Mentoring Program for Under-represented Students
The Richards Center at Pennsylvania State University is sponsoring a FREE summer program for undergraduate students from historically underrepresented backgrounds who have an interest in pursuing doctoral study in history or a dual-title PhD in history and African American Studies…. Read More ›
UC Berkeley Scholarship opportunity: IIS Undergraduate Merit Scholarship Application
The Institute of International Studies (IIS) Undergraduate Merit Scholarship supports undergraduate research in any area of international studies. Scholarship awards are $2000 each, with the opportunity to win additional prizes at the Junior Scholars Conference in May 2016. This scholarship opportunity… Read More ›
Professors as Personal Champions
By JAIRO We overcome incredible obstacles as undocumented students to arrive at the university. Admission is certainly a high achievement, but it also sets off a new range of challenges. How do I access financial resources? What must I do now… Read More ›
Scholarship opportunity open to undocumented students with DACA or TPS
Golden Door Scholars is a nonprofit that provides undocumented students with college scholarships and internship/career opportunities. They currently have a scholarship opportunity open to undocumented who are eligible for DACA or TPS. Golden Door Scholars recipients who attend one of their partner… Read More ›
2016 Ford Foundation Pre-Doctoral Fellowship
The Ford Foundation is currently accepting applications for its 2016 Pre-Doctoral Fellowship opportunity! Please note that this fellowship is one of the few out there that are open to students with Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals so I would definitely… Read More ›
Meet UndocuGrad Beni, PhD in Sociology from UC Merced
By BENI (Interviewed by Carolina) Beni was born in Patzcuaro Michoacan, Mexico. He is currently a first year doctoral student in Sociology at UC Merced. He is interested in researching the experiences of undocumented students in higher education. Beni graduated from Sonoma… Read More ›