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Hanging in the Balance

Federal legislation may chart new course for states considering whether to grant in-state tuition to undocumented immigrant students.

May 29, 2007

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Perspectives: On Immigration and Black Unemployment, Congressional Black Caucus Remains Silent

Missing from the debate on Capitol Hill about immigration reform is the Congressional Black Caucus, which should be standing up against policies that enable immigrants to compete with Blacks and other low-wage, low-skill workers for housing, health care, education, employment opportunities and goods and services.

May 21, 2007

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Undocumented Students Urge Passage of DREAM ACT

WASHINGTON, DC Illegal immigrants told a sympathetic U.S. House panel on Friday what life is like for immigrants struggling to get a college education with the threat of deportation hanging over their heads. A bill before Congress, the DREAM ACT, offering a path to citizenship, is part of the immigration reform bill the U.S. Senate is set to vote on this week.

May 20, 2007

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New Congress More Amenable to the DREAM Act

A bill to eliminate many higher education barriers for undocumented students may get new life in the now Democrat-controlled U.S. Congress, say advocates who hope to break a six-year stalemate on the issue.

April 18, 2007

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Expanding the Literary Canon

Hispanic literature is growing in popularity, and scholars would like to see it better incorporated into high school, college curriculms.

March 28, 2007

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Expanding the Literary Canon

For most college students, literature courses began in high school and consisted almost entirely of the classics of America and Western Europe…

March 21, 2007

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Research Roundup: Affirmative Action Opponents Not Necessarily Racist

New research suggests that opponents of affirmative action are usually concerned about their own group’s well-being, and not because they’re racist. Another study has found that immigration has led to the decline of interracial and inter-ethnic marriage in the United States.

February 14, 2007

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Georgia Colleges to Stop Giving Tuition Breaks to Undocumented Students

ATLANTA High-performing students who grew up in Georgia but are undocumented immigrants soon won’t qualify for discounted tuition at state colleges.

December 18, 2006

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An Ethnic Studies Evolution

As a student in the Chicana/o studies program at the University of Texas at El Paso…

November 29, 2006

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The True Meaning of Illegal

I feel that many illegal immigrants are taking full control over this issue (see “DREAM Act Becoming Major Mid-Term Battleground,” Sept. 21)…

October 18, 2006

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Columbia University Group Defends Minuteman Speech Protest

NEW YORK The protesters who disrupted a Columbia University speech by the leader of the civilian immigration monitoring group the Minuteman Project stood by their action Monday, handing out an eight-page list of statements supporting their position.

October 9, 2006

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Children of Immigrants More Likely To Study Math, Science Than U.S.-born

The children of immigrant parents are more likely to study science and math in college than are students whose families are multi-generation Americans, according to a study by Dr. Vivian Tseng, a research psychologist and a program officer at the William T. Grant Foundation in New York City.

September 21, 2006