“A lot of people may not realize how important it is strategically for the United States to make sure that we’re welcoming students from around the globe. It’s been a major pillar of our security, our foreign policy and our economic progress,” said Jill Welch, a senior policy adviser at the Presi...Continue Reading
"Miriam Feldblum, executive director of the Presidents' Alliance on Higher Education and Immigration, says the current system makes sense and does not need such a drastic rule change. Her organization represents hundreds of university presidents across the U.S., including the University of Pennsy...Continue Reading
"Jose Magaña-Salgado, director of policy and communications for the Presidents' Alliance on Higher Education and Immigration, told your host that college presidents are preparing for all possible outcomes as they wait for the Supreme Court decision, which is expected later this year, on whether t...Continue Reading
Narivi Roblero, a sophomore at UNC, came to the United States from Guatemala when she was six months old.
“When I was growing up, I didn’t really acknowledge the fact that I was undocumented,” she said. “I knew I was undocumented, but I didn’t know what that meant.”
Roblero explained that since...Continue Reading
The nine U.S. Supreme Court justices heard oral arguments both for and against the ending of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, also known as DACA, on Nov. 12. Their ruling will impact the trajectory of the over 660,000 undocumented young adults in America who are DACA recipients.
DACA star...Continue Reading
Yale University has joined forces with more than 100 other colleges and universities to bolster the legal defense of a pair of federal programs allowing international students in the United States to gain practical workplace training.
On Nov. 21, the schools filed a joint legal brief supporting ...Continue Reading
Today, Lawrence University joins more than 100 public and private universities and colleges in filing an amicus brief in support of a longstanding U.S. immigration program that assists international students in getting practical training with U.S. employers.
The “friend of the court” brief is su...Continue Reading
NEW YORK (November 25, 2019) – A federal district court is considering whether to strike down student experiential learning programs called Optional Practical Training (OPT) and science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) OPT. Over one hundred public and private universities and coll...Continue Reading
The University of Oregon, along with more than 110 other colleges and universities, has joined an amicus brief in support of international students and a federal work program.
The case, Washtech vs. Department of Human Services, involves a legal challenge to the Optional Practical Training progr...Continue Reading
The University of New Hampshire and SNHU, along with dozens of other colleges and universities, are defending a program that has helped attract international students.
The optional practical training work permit program allows international students to temporarily work in the United States after...Continue Reading
A group of U.S. businesses and associations wants a federal judge in Washington to keep in place a training program for foreign nationals with STEM degrees from U.S. colleges and universities.
Amazon.com Inc., Dell Technologies, eBay, Facebook, Google LLC, LinkedIn, Microsoft, and Tesla Inc. are...Continue Reading
Yesterday, the Niskanen Center filed an amicus brief in the WashTech v. DHS case. WashTech questions the legal basis of the Optional Practical Training (OPT) program and alleges that the workers it represents are harmed by it. In our brief, we draw attention to our findings from the research pape...Continue Reading
Duke has joined more than 100 colleges and universities filing an amicus (friend of the court) brief in federal court defending the federal Optional Practical Training (OPT) immigration program.
OPT is a work authorization created in 1992 as part of the F-1 visa program for international students...Continue Reading
MORE THAN A MILLION international students are studying at U.S. colleges and universities. For many of them, the opportunity doesn't end after graduation thanks to the federal Optional Practical Training program, known as OPT, which for decades has allowed them to temporarily work in the U.S.
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More than 100 U.S. colleges signed on to an amicus brief opposing a lawsuit that seeks to end the optional practical training program, which allows international students to work in the U.S. for up to three years after graduating while staying on their student visas.
Colleges say that ending the...Continue Reading
More than 100 colleges and universities are defending a foreign student work program that’s the target of a yearslong federal court battle.
The “Optional Practical Training” program — known widely in education circles as OPT — has taken fire from a West Coast labor union that argues the policy wa...Continue Reading
As thousands of undocumented immigrants and their supporters rallied on the steps of the U.S. Supreme Court on a cold, rainy morning, their fates rested in the hands of nine justices who by some accounts on Tuesday seemed to be leaning toward allowing the protections that have kept the immigrants...Continue Reading
Bloomberg Law, Case and Controversies podcast interviewed Presidents' Alliance on Higher Education and Immigration's Director of Policy and Communications, Jose Magaña- Salgado about the forthcoming SCOTUS hearing on DACA and the Alliance's higher ed. amicus brief.
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The California State University system, including CSU, Chico, joined over 164 colleges and universities from across the country this month in signing an amicus brief supporting the roughly 700,000 young immigrants who came to the United States as children and who hold Deferred Action for Childhoo...Continue Reading
As the new school year starts, many campuses may be experiencing another year of declining new international student enrollments, feeling pressure to invest more resources in international recruitment and their international student support services, putting in place new efforts and programs to a...Continue Reading
Brookhaven’s Oglethorpe University is supporting young immigrants who came to the U.S. as children under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals initiative as the U.S. Supreme Court is set to decide on President Donald Trump’s decision to end the program.
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During this Supreme Court term, the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) policy is on the docket. Moravian College, along with 165 other colleges and universities, joined an amicus brief "urging" the Court to protect DACA. PBS39 News Tonight speaks with Moravian's president to learn why ...Continue Reading
Tufts announced that it has joined 164 other public and private universities and colleges in signing an amicus brief to the U.S. Supreme Court supporting the roughly 700,000 young immigrants who came to the United States as children and who hold Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) statu...Continue Reading
Colorado Mountain College President and CEO Carrie Hauser issued the following statement today on the filing of an amicus brief in support of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals and the consolidated cases in front of the U.S. Supreme Court, urging the court to stand in support of DACA recipien...Continue Reading
An unprecedented array of hundreds of higher education institutions, educators, parents, health care professionals, law enforcement officials, business leaders, elected leaders, states, cities and counties, national security leaders, civil rights organizations, former government officials, academ...Continue Reading
A total of 165 colleges and universities have signed a statement supporting the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals Act as a friend of the court. One of those is Whitman College in Walla Walla.
“We value every student and it is my sincere hope that all students, regardless of citizenship, wil...Continue Reading
The University of Colorado system has signed an amicus brief urging the U.S. Supreme Court to protect the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) immigration policy.
CU is among 165 public and private universities and colleges from 32 states and the District of Columbia that united in supp...Continue Reading
Westminster College in Utah has joined 165 colleges and universities nationwide to support the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program.
The academic institutions signed an amicus brief that urges the Supreme Court to also support an estimated 700,000 DACA recipients, who were brought to t...Continue Reading
The Colorado State University system is one of 165 colleges and universities that have signed on to an amicus brief in support of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program ahead of its U.S. Supreme Court hearing.
The brief, filed Oct. 4, argues that DACA has allowed “tens of thousands o...Continue Reading
Uzair, Erik, and “Isabel,” three TheDream.US Scholars, shared their stories of growing up in America and the power of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program in an amicus brief filed this week and coordinated by The Presidents’ Alliance on Higher Education and Immigration on beh...Continue Reading
More than 150 universities joined an amicus brief filed Friday in the upcoming U.S. Supreme Court case about Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, the Obama-era program that has allowed about 17,000 Coloradans and hundreds of thousands of others brought to the country illegally as children to h...Continue Reading
MSU Denver is one of 165 colleges and universities that filed an amicus brief, a document that recommends a position to the court in support of DACA ahead of the hearing, according to an Oct. 8 news release from the Presidents’ Alliance on Higher Education and Immigration.
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On October 4, Ithaca College joined 164 colleges and universities from across the country in signing an amicus brief supporting the roughly 700,000 young immigrants who came to the United States as children and who hold Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA).
This “friend of the court” br...Continue Reading
Since the Trump administration announced in 2017 that it was ending DACA, the Nevada System of Higher Education (NSHE) said it would continue to provide DREAMers access to college and support them. On Thursday, NSHE joined an amicus brief supporting University of California regents who are suing ...Continue Reading
While the U.S. public-charge rule has existed since the 1990s, the new version recently published has far-reaching implications for immigrant and international students and their families.
The rule requires individuals seeking to enter the U.S. either as immigrants or nonimmigrants to show th...Continue Reading
How often are you dealing with immigration-related matters on your campus? Even as an increasing number of Americans agree with the statement that immigration and immigrants benefit our country, immigration also has become one of the most salient and divisive political issues nationally. Miriam F...Continue Reading
It is likely that undocumented immigrant students were among those graduating from central Ohio high schools in the past few weeks.
But often, their peers don’t know their status, and what’s next for them isn’t as flush with opportunity as it is for their friends who were born in the United Stat...Continue Reading
As chancellor of Rutgers University – Newark and president of Illinois Institute of Technology, we have witnessed firsthand the phenomenal contributions that Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program recipients, Dreamers and Temporary Protected Status (TPS) students make each and ever...Continue Reading
Chancellor Dorothy Leland made her way to Capitol Hill this week for the first convening of the Presidents’ Alliance on Higher Education and Immigration.
Leland is a founding member of the alliance, which spent Monday engaging with immigration policy analysts, coalition leaders, resear...Continue Reading
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March 18, 2019
Under the Trump administration, DACA protections for undocumented children brought to the U.S. by their parents are set to expire. Jose Magaña-Salgado, DACA Recipient and policy & communications director for the Presidents' Alliance on Higher Education and Immigrati...Continue Reading
When Moshe Schulman’s then fiancee visited the United States consulate in Casablanca, he believed that she would leave her interview – for a K-1 visa – with permission to return to New York and they could finally stop conducting their relationship long-distance.
The Guardian March 19, 20...Continue Reading
By Keerthi Vedantam | Cronkite News
Tuesday, March 12, 2019
WASHINGTON – House Democrats unveiled legislation Tuesday that would provide a pathway to citizenship for an estimated 2 million immigrants protected under the Deferred Action on Childhood Arrivals, Temporary Protected Status and other ...Continue Reading
President Trump signed the spending bill on Feb. 15, which keeps the government open through the end of the fiscal year. Included is about a quarter of the funding he sought for a border wall. That’s not nearly enough to effectively improve border security in any real way.
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For many New Jersey young people, getting a driver’s license is a critical on-ramp to their road to success. With 420,000 college students statewide but dormitories less than half of all campuses, ours is a state where access to educational opportunity for hundreds of thousands of students can de...Continue Reading
As a nation, we are at a pivotal crossroads for immigration policy. And as chancellor at the University of California, Merced, I am acutely aware of the impact that federal immigration policy has on the nearly 600 undocumented students on our campus — the highest percentage of enrollment at any U...Continue Reading
In 2019, immigration advocates expect that higher education institutions will be at the forefront of US immigration policy debates.
From the uncertainty around the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program to the Trump administration’s new planned changes for student visas and work authoriz...Continue Reading
A number of colleges and higher education groups have registered their opposition to a proposed rule by the Trump administration that would redefine how the government determines an immigrant or nonimmigrant visitor is likely to become a “public charge” and thus ineligible for a green card or oth...Continue Reading
For the first time ever, a Dreamer is a Rhodes Scholar. Jin Kyu Park of Harvard is among the 32 American Rhodes Scholars named in early November. His story is the latest evidence of the extraordinary achievements of Dreamers in American higher education. According to TheDream.US, the largest scho...Continue Reading
International and first- and second-generation immigrant students make up an average of 30 percent of undergraduate populations in the U.S. . . . The stakes are higher than ever for colleges to support immigrant students on their campuses and in their communities," said Miriam Feldblum, Executive...Continue Reading
“Openness to underserved students in our country, as well as to the talents brought by international students, are at the heart of our mission as institutions of higher education. Today, recognizing the heritage of immigrants to this country, and making sure that we continue to be open to the fut...Continue Reading
I think we need to look in two different directions. We need to continue to advocate and lobby for a permanent legislative solution, but we also need to think ahead about how can we best protect our students if that doesn’t happen,”said Dorothy Leland, chancellor of the University of California, ...Continue Reading
A group representing the top executives of more than 200 colleges wrote to Congressional leaders on Thursday asking for a “narrowly tailored solution” to the possible lapsing of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program.
Chronicle of Higher Education, January 11, 2018Continue Reading
More than two dozen university and college presidents are joining forces to urge legal protection for undocumented “Dreamers” brought to the United States as children. The Presidents’ Alliance on Higher Education and Immigration includes top officials from the California State University system a...Continue Reading
