Here’s the one action we need you to take NOW to help in the fight for in-state tuition for all NC students. Send a letter to Senator Apodaca explaining who you are, and why you urge him to support tuition equity now. Click here for a great sample letter to give you an idea of how […]
Free Webinar: Holistic Support for Undocumented Students in a Rapidly Changing Policy Environment
FREE WEBINAR Tuesday, February 10, 2015 | 2:00-3:30pm (EST) The Community College Consortium for Immigrant Education (CCCIE), the Undocumented Student Program (USP) at the University of California, Berkeley, the National Forum on Higher Education for the Public Good and the National Center for Institutional Diversity (NCID) at the University of Michigan invite you to participate […]
Student Action with Farmworkers’ Levante Leadership Institute
Recognized among most effective in nation at increasing Latino Student Success Student Action with Farmworkers (SAF) was selected from among 217 competitors from 26 states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico as one of 14 Finalists for the 2014 Examples of Excelencia award. Conceived and run by Excelencia in Education, this is the only national initiative to systematically […]
The White House Initiative on Educational Excellence for Hispanics
Addie Bean-Thompson is a summer intern with Student Action with Farmworkers. She attended the forum along with other members of the Adelante Education Coalition. Here are her thoughts about the day long event. You can find out more information about the Initiative here: http://www.ed.gov/edblogs/hispanic-initiative/. Last week I attended the White House Initiative on Educational Excellence for […]
Tuition Equality: Good For Our Students, Good For Our State
Let’s Learn NC! Today marks the launch of a new campaign seeking college tuition equality for all North Carolina students. Let’s Learn NC is all about fairness, opportunity and equal access to education. We advocate for the same college tuition for all North Carolina students, because higher education should be equally accessible to all state […]
Annual “No Room at the Inn” Speech
The Adelante Coalition, the North Carolina NAACP and Rev. Dr. William J. Barber, II welcome all of our allies to stand together to speak out in support of all young people in North Carolina being able to study and follow their dreams of higher education. Creating financial and administrative hurdles to higher education for undocumented […]