The National Forum has released a comprehensive report funded by the Texas Guarantee Loan Corporation (TG) examining institutional behavior related to state and federal policies regarding undocumented students. “We created a survey examining institutional behaviors regarding undocumented students.  Our partners at the American Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers (AACRAO) and the National Association [...]

Researchers working on the immigration initiative at the National Forum have been hard at work presenting at numerous conferences around the country.  Researchers at the National Forum presented at the seventh annual national conference of the American Association of Hispanics in Higher Education (AAHHE), and at the GSCO/BET conference.  This year’s AAHHE conference took place [...]

Kimberly Reyes, Graduate Student Research Assistant, represented the National Forum at “My Life as an Undocumented Immigrant: A Policy Perspective.”  The event took place on February 21st at the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy at University of Michigan.  “The presentation explored public policy related to undocumented immigrants, specifically with regard to the personal [...]

The Coalition for Interdisciplinary Research on Latino Issues (CIRLI) presents Dr. Efren Perez’s speech “COLLATERAL DAMAGE?  XENOPHOBIC RHETORIC AND ITS POLITICAL EFFECTS ON LATINOS.”  The event is co-sponsored by the Latina/o Studies Program, the National Forum on the Higher Education for the Public Good, and Political Scientists of Color.  CIRLI is a Rackham-funded interdisciplinary workshop. Dr. Efron Perez will be speaking [...]

The National Forum is partnering with scholars around the nation to produce three research papers on undocumented students in higher education. “The Forum identified gaps in the literature regarding higher education officials’ response to the crisis regarding undocumented students,” says Angela Vidal-Rodriguez, leader of the Higher Education Access research team at the National Forum.  “After [...]

The National Forum is partnering with scholars around the nation to produce three research papers on undocumented students in higher education. “The Forum identified gaps in the literature regarding higher education officials’ response to the crisis regarding undocumented students,” says Angela Vidal-Rodriguez, leader of the Higher Education Access research team at the National Forum.  “After [...]

The National Forum will partner with the Carnegie Foundation to perform a strategic communications and network analysis with KFLA (Kellogg Fellows Leadership Alliance). Amy Puffenberger, Project Manager at the National Forum, reports that KFLA uses algorithm-based social networking to map communications trends.  According to Amy, KFLA will contact the members of the National Forum’s network [...]