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Mercy Sosa CalMatters While witnessing a rise in deportations across the country, college-bound high school seniors with immigrant parents in California had to decide this spring whether to submit a federal financial aid application. Their fear: The federal government will use sensitive personal information from the application to identify...
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Los terapeutas están intensificando sus esfuerzos para ayudar a los estudiantes indocumentados a lidiar con el miedo generalizado generado por las continuas redadas de ICE de la administración Trump. El grupo Immigrants Rising ofrece una línea gratuita de consejería para estudiantes indocumentados en California de entre 18 y 45...
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Therapists are stepping up to help undocumented students deal with the pervasive fear created by the Trump administration’s ongoing ICE raids. The group Immigrants Rising offers free online counseling to undocumented students in California, ages 18 to 45. Mayra Barragan-O’Brien is a licensed marriage and family therapist, and the...
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Tara García Mathewson CalMatters Los estudiantes ya no tienen los mismos incentivos para hablar con sus profesores -o incluso con sus compañeros-. Chatbots como ChatGPT, Gemini y Claude les han abierto un nuevo camino hacia la autosuficiencia. En lugar de pedir ayuda a un profesor sobre el tema de...
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Tara García Mathewson CalMatters Students don’t have the same incentives to talk to their professors — or even their classmates — anymore. Chatbots like ChatGPT, Gemini and Claude have given them a new path to self-sufficiency. Instead of asking a professor for help on a paper topic, students can...
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With federal protections for immigrant students threatened, California has a lifeline: the California Dream Act Application (CADAA). Last spring, the California Student Aid Commission (CSAC) — the state agency responsible for distributing over $3 billion in financial aid — reported a 38% drop in CADAA applications and a 14%...
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Grupos defensores de los derechos de los migrantes están considerando emprender acciones legales para restablecer una ley de Texas que permite el pago de matrículas estatales a estudiantes universitarios indocumentados. La medida se produce después de que el Departamento de Justicia demandara a Texas, y en cuestión de horas,...
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Immigrant rights groups have said they are considering legal action to restore a Texas law allowing in-state tuition rates for undocumented college students. The move comes after the Department of Justice sued Texas and within hours, state officials complied without a fight. According to the U.S. attorney general, federal...
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Mikhail Zinshteyn CalMatters Esta primavera, los Institutos Nacionales de Salud comenzaron silenciosamente a cancelar programas en numerosas universidades que preparaban a prometedores estudiantes universitarios y de posgrado para obtener títulos de doctorado en ciencias. Al menos 24 campus de la Universidad de California y la Universidad Estatal de California...