Hello, everyone! Welcome to our briefing on First and Second Generation Immigrants in higher education, co-hosted by the Presidents’ Alliance on Higher Education and Immigration and the Community College Consortium for Immigrant Education. Today’s webinar is being recorded and will be distributed afterward. You can find resources from today’s webinar here: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1C--pdAuaeW9kwJh9nZRg1AVQ0UUOKlqv?usp=sharing

Our briefing today will focus on our recent report, “Immigrant-Origen Students in U.S. Higher Education.” You can find the report in our Google Drive:https://drive.google.com/file/d/10wWuRYzxuxaVvbcrSKhnD1ZiiPpojiAx/view?usp=sharing

You can find more information about our speakers in our Google Drive folder:https://drive.google.com/file/d/1zWrYy65r4e3BJI9iY4SLgYtpuC_HA0sB/view?usp=sharing

www.migrationpolicy.org/research/immigrant-origin-students-us-higher-education

For those of you just joining us, welcome! We’re so excited to have you here. We’re recording today’s briefing and will distribute it afterward. You can find resources from today’s briefing, include speaker bios, here: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1C--pdAuaeW9kwJh9nZRg1AVQ0UUOKlqv?usp=sharing

“Direct expenditures by international students on education-related consumption has amounted to a $40B export market”: https://www.nafsa.org/policy-and-advocacy/policy-resources/nafsa-international-student-economic-value-tool-v2#trends_reports

“One in four privately-held billion-dollar US companies were founded or co-founded by someone who initially came to the country as an international student”: https://www.nafsa.org/sites/default/files/ektron/files/underscore/ie_julaug16_frontlines.pdf

You can find more information about our speakers in our Google Drive folder:https://drive.google.com/file/d/1zWrYy65r4e3BJI9iY4SLgYtpuC_HA0sB/view?usp=sharing

Here’s the NYTimes article we’ve mentioned: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/15/us/immigrant-families-students-college.html

Thank you to our three panelists! Such a powerful presentation.

Here is a link for the MPI report Ur mentioned: https://www.migrationpolicy.org/research/us-immigration-system-changes-trump-presidency

Great twitter thread from MPI on the Public Charge rules:https://twitter.com/MigrationPolicy/status/1160927075932540929

You can find Jose’s speaker remarks in our Google Drive: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1J0FaxKPILRwLIps_HLRDA_U9ZJ2OknW8/view?usp=sharing

You can find the report in our Google Drive:https://drive.google.com/file/d/10wWuRYzxuxaVvbcrSKhnD1ZiiPpojiAx/view?usp=sharing

Muchas gracias!