DACA recipient Nohemi Salas is enrolled in the dental hygienist program at Community College of Denver and received Colorado state financial aid to help pay for college. 

On Course

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These Afghan women soldiers made it out of Afghanistan. Their next battle is making it in the US.

About 40 members of a special, all-women Afghan platoon that worked alongside the US military barely made it out of Afghanistan last year. Now, they want to put their training to use even though they remain in a legal limbo. But that hasn’t stopped them learning English and getting an education. 

These Afghan women soldiers made it out of Afghanistan. Their next battle is making it in the US.
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DACA could end in federal court. Most of today’s high school graduates can’t get protection from the program anyway. 

DACA could end in federal court. Most of today’s high school graduates can’t get protection from the program anyway. 
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‘The College Tour’ show makes campus tours accessible to immigrants, low-income students

‘The College Tour’ show makes campus tours accessible to immigrants, low-income students
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Analysts: In the face of a high-skilled labor shortage, the US needs to rely more on immigrants

Analysts: In the face of a high-skilled labor shortage, the US needs to rely more on immigrants
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Safe and unsilenced: Afghan scholars find refuge at US universities

Safe and unsilenced: Afghan scholars find refuge at US universities
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Connecticut school district recruits Puerto Rican teachers to help meet bilingual needs

​​​​​​​US schools suffer from a critical shortage of bilingual teachers. But the public schools in Hartford, Connecticut, had a novel idea: recruit bilingual teachers from Puerto Rico with diverse teaching experience.

Connecticut school district recruits Puerto Rican teachers to help meet bilingual needs
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US educators step up to help displaced Ukrainians continue their studies

Several American-based online learning platforms have made their coursework free to Ukrainians whose education has been upended by the war in their country. Students, as well as universities, are embracing the new offerings.

US educators step up to help displaced Ukrainians continue their studies
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200,000 'Documented Dreamers' are literally waiting a lifetime for a green card

Many children who illegally entered the US are protected under Deferred Action Childhood Arrivals (DACA). But those who came legally on their parents’ work visas have no such protections. When they turn 21, even though they have lived in the US nearly all their lives, they are subject to deportation.

200,000 'Documented Dreamers' are literally waiting a lifetime for a green card
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'You hit this glass ceiling': Undocumented US students returned to Mexico struggle to continue their college studies

Young Mexican citizens who return to Mexico — either voluntarily or through deportation — often find it difficult to continue their studies. Some give up, while others have to redo years of coursework just to get back to where they left off in the United States.

'You hit this glass ceiling': Undocumented US students returned to Mexico struggle to continue their college studies
Ginette Derelus is a cook at Manjay Restaurant at The Citadel near Little Haiti, Miami. Duolingo partnered with Haitian restaurants to promote the new language course. Derelus, a Haitian Bahamian, says she and her Haitian husband teach their three childre

A love letter to Haitian Creole: 'Kreyòl pale, Kreyòl konprann'

Language learning app Duolingo will offer a new Haitian Creole course for English speakers. It’s an opportunity to explore how Haitian Creole can sound and feel: sweet and romantic — but also rebellious.

A love letter to Haitian Creole: 'Kreyòl pale, Kreyòl konprann'
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Immigrant students settle with govt over fake university

Six years after ICE revealed a university was a sting operation, the students caught in the middle say they still haven’t fully recovered. 

Immigrant students settle with govt over fake university
María Teresa Navas Mejía, a long-term employee at the University of Colorado Boulder, recently received her green card thanks to Carina De La Torre and students in Colorado Law’s Immigration Defense Clinic.

Colorado law students gain ‘powerful’ lessons providing free legal services to immigrants

Students at the University of Colorado Law School in Boulder are learning the law by providing free legal services to immigrants in the community. Some of them come from immigrant families themselves.

Colorado law students gain ‘powerful’ lessons providing free legal services to immigrants
Aimee Biba teaches a certified nursing assistant course at Portland Adult Education in Maine.

Despite flurry of efforts to recruit immigrants with medical experience, many remain sidelined 

Immigrants to the US, in all sorts of professions, face barriers to getting credentialed. And when it comes to caring for patients, there are good reasons for making sure doctors are qualified. But some health care experts say there’s also good reason to help foreign-trained medical professionals continue their careers in the US.

Despite flurry of efforts to recruit immigrants with medical experience, many remain sidelined 
Prem Pariyar stands in front of Alexander Meiklejohn Hall on the campus of California State University, East Bay.

'Hidden discrimination': California university joins national trend to protect against caste bias on campus

Caste was outlawed decades ago across South Asia. But it still exists and has found its way to American campuses.

'Hidden discrimination': California university joins national trend to protect against caste bias on campus
Alina Yurkiv sits with Dmitry Korkin at his home in Westborough, Massachusetts, on March 16, 2022. Korkin, a computer science professor at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, is using his connections so that whenever Yurkiv's husband, an economist in Ukraine

Echoing WWII rescue efforts, ethnic Russian researchers in the US support Ukrainian scholars

An effort to evacuate and find Ukrainian professors safe havens on US campuses parallels the rescue of European scholars during World War II.

Echoing WWII rescue efforts, ethnic Russian researchers in the US support Ukrainian scholars