On Wednesday, February 28th, 2024, the Institute on Immigrant Integration Research and Policy, hosted The Role of Higher Education Institutions in Immigrant Integration webinar. This webinar explores promising models within the State University of New York (SUNY) and the City University of New York (CUNY) systems that enable immigrant-origin students to achieve integration at the academic, social, professional, and communal levels. These high-performing institutions build and maintain coordinated and integrated community-wide support systems that address immigrant-origin students’ needs through services, which include tutoring, academic guidance and support, mentoring, coaching, case management, and proactive advisement.
Speaker Bios: https://rockinst.org/rig-events/webinars/2024-webinars/the-role-of-higher-education-institutions-in-immigrant-integration/
►[00:00:53] Introductions
🗣 Guillermo Martinez, Deputy Director & Intergovernmental Liaison, Institute on Immigrant Integration Research and Policy
🗣 Dina Refki, Executive Director, Institute on Immigrant Integration Research and Policy
►[00:06:36] Keynote Presentation
🗣 Diya Abdo, Lincoln Financial Professor, English and Creative Writing, Guilford College
[00:30:48] Panelist Presentation | Immigrants, Refugees, and Undcoumented Students: Barriers to Accessing Higher Education
🗣 Tsveta Dobreva, Immigrant Integration Fellow, Institute on Immigrant Integration Research and Policy
[00:43:09] Panelist Presentation | CUNY Undocumented and Immigrant Student Programs
🗣 Cynthia Nayeli Carvajal, Director, Undocumented and Immigrant Student Programs, City University of New York
[01:04:03] Panelist Presentation | CUNY Undocumented and Immigrant Student Programs
🗣 Ali Schaeffing, Assistant Professor of Geography, and Director, Service Learning & Community Engagement, Russell Sage College
🗣Catherine Willis, Every Campus a Refuge Coordinator, Hudson Valley Community College, SUNY
►[1:27:35] Closing Remarks
🗣 Dina Refki, Executive Director, Institute on Immigrant Integration Research and Policy