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Immigrant students make up nearly one-third of the student population in community colleges Upwardly Global, the national nonprofit working to support immigrants and refugees with international credentials to restart their careers in the United States, released a new report titled “Unlocking Potential: Enhancing Community College Services for Immigrant and Refugee
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Our new report, “Unlocking Potential: Enhancing Community College Services for Immigrant and Refugee Students,” which discusses community colleges and the impact of their service offerings on immigrant and refugee students, was recently featured on Inside Higher Ed. The report’s findings, written in collaboration with the Lumina Foundation and the National
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Upwardly Global President and CEO Jina Krause-Vilmar spoke with the Daily Mail about the continued legal limbo faced by some 78,000 Afghan newcomers who arrived after the U.S. withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan. “‘We have a long history in the United States of using humanitarian parole in the context of
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Afghan women’s rights advocate escapes Taliban rule, restarts cause-driven career in New York City As a young woman in Afghanistan, 27-year-old Farzana stood out. “I was one of those strange girls,” she says. Throughout her upbringing, she pushed her conservative family to support her educational pursuits, which Afghan women had
CHICAGO — Upwardly Global today commends Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker’s signing of two key pieces of legislation that help eliminate licensing barriers for internationally trained doctors to practice medicine in the state, a groundbreaking step to alleviate critical labor shortages in the healthcare sector. Upwardly Global, the leading organization promoting
- Topics: Healthcare, News, Policy