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Our new report, “Unlocking Potential: Enhancing Community College Services for Immigrant and Refugee Students,” was featured on The Chronicle of Higher Education. “Nearly one in three community-college students is from an immigrant background, according to a new report from Upwardly Global, a national nonprofit organization that works to help immigrants

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

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

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

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