ISSUES
WEBINAR: How to Create Non-Employment Based Fellowships and Other Funding Opportunities for Undocumented Students
Posted: April 30, 2020
Modified: November 01, 2020
ISSUES
Posted: April 30, 2020
Modified: November 01, 2020
This in-depth webinar helped college administrators and faculty explore options to create non-employment-based fellowships and other funding options for undocumented students. Speakers addressed support for undocumented students, funding options, research and teaching fellowship structures, internship opportunities, and other initiatives. Following overviews on funding options and types of fellowship structures, administrators and faculty at public and private institutions discussed programs they have set up and lessons learned.
Speakers
Lauren Cardenas, Assistant Director, Marshall Undergraduate Career Services, University of Southern California
Angela Chen, Director, Dream Center, University of California Irvine
Miriam Feldblum, Executive Director, Presidents’ Alliance on Higher Education and Immigration
Marissa Hill-Dungre, Director, Immigration Response Team, and Assistant Director, Co-Head Employment Based Visas, International Student & Scholar Services, University of Minnesota
Nancy Jodaitis, Director, Higher Education, Immigrants Rising
Abel Valenzuela, Professor of Urban Planning and Chicano Studies, University of California Los Angeles