Quoted In: Still Pushing for DREAM (Inside Higher Ed)

"This week, news reports have suggested that Congressional Democrats are pushing ahead to take up immigration reform legislation, which would most likely include measures aimed at putting students who spend at least two years in college on a path to permanent residency,"Inside Higher Ed reports. "It was with this sense that such change might finally be in the offing, after close to a decade of false starts, that the National Forum on Higher Education for the Public Good, based at the University of Michigan, and the Kellogg Fellows Leadership Alliance convened for ‘Challenges and Opportunities: Future Pathways Towards Immigration and Higher Education,’ a three-day conference designed to build support for policies aimed at helping college students who are also undocumented residents of the United States. … Josh Bernstein, immigration director for the Service Employees International Union, encouraged administrators and faculty to target their own legislators by ‘find[ing] a student to be emblematic’ of the need for immigration reform. Justin Draeger, vice president for public policy at the National Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators, said the same in a discussion on how the national higher education associations could work in favor of immigrants. ‘It’s at the institutional level, putting pressure on individual members of Congress, that is always done locally.’"

You can read the complete April 28, 2010 Inside Higher Ed article on-line.