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Webinar: Uplifting Campus Resources: Effective Practices to Support Refugee Students in Higher Ed, PART 2: Building On Campus Support for Refugee Students
Posted: December 07, 2022
Modified: December 08, 2022
On Wednesday, December 7, 2022, the Presidents’ Alliance hosted a webinar, Uplifting Campus Resources: Effective Practices to Support Refugee Students in Higher Ed, PART 2: Building On Campus Support for Refugee Students.
Uplifting Campus Resources: Effective Practices to Support Refugee Students in Higher Education provided an overview of resources and effective practices for campuses to enroll and support refugee students, focused specifically on refugee students on F1 student visas and humanitarian parole. The webinar series covered a broad range of topics that set the stage for future more in depth workshops and communities of practice.
In Part 2, leading campus and organizational experts shared resources and models on 1) Campus Collaboration 2) Expanding Access to Legal Services 3) Creating Cohorts and Community and 4) Foster Migration & Trauma Informed Campuses:
Find the Google Drive folder that contains the speakers’ bios, and our Partner resources here.
Speakers Included:
- Grace Bech, Student, Dartmouth College
- Adam Brown, New School Trauma and Global Mental Health Lab
- Erin Fitzgerald, Director of the Center for Global Education and Fellowships, Salve Regina University
- Michele Pistone, Professor of Law, Villanova University, and Founder of VIISTA: Villanova Interdisciplinary Immigration Studies Training for Advocates
- Asabe Poloma, Associate Provost, Office of Global Engagement, Brown University
- Danielle Riou, Associate Director, Human Rights Project, Bard College
Recording and resources from Part 1, on November 9th, focused on enrolling students and leveraging resources is available here.
If you have any questions or have an interest in learning more about a particular topic, please feel free to contact Laura Wagner, Director of Refugee Student Initiatives, laura@presidentsalliance.org.
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