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- September 7, 2023
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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- September 6, 2023
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
- Topics: News, News Coverage
- August 28, 2023
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
- Topics: Afghan Response, News, News Coverage
- August 21, 2023
Upwardly Global was featured in a video entitled “New Afghans to the United States have played an important role in the country’s economy”, by Voice of America. The piece is in Dari, one of the two official languages of Afghanistan. In an interview, Upwardly Global President and CEO Jina Krause-Vilmar
- Topics: Afghan Response, News Coverage
- August 18, 2023
Empowered by Upwardly Global, Farzana reignites a cause-driven career in New York City nonprofits 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