Opening the Door to the American Dream: Increasing Higher Education Access and Success for Immigrants

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dc.contributor.authorErisman, Wendyen
dc.contributor.authorLooney, Shannonen
dc.date.accessed2017-10-18en
dc.date.accessioned2018-05-07T19:35:13Zen
dc.date.available2018-05-07T19:35:13Zen
dc.date.issued2007-04-01en
dc.description.abstractThis report describes the demographic and educational characteristics of the U.S. immigrant population and discusses barriers faced by legal immigrants seeking to enroll in postsecondary education. The report focuses on older immigrants, who confront significant challenges in understanding and gaining access to the U.S. system of higher education because they did not attend American primary and secondary schools. It also examines the characteristics of and the barriers to persistence and completion faced by immigrant students who do enroll in collegeā€”a group that makes up twelve percent of the U.S. undergraduate population but has received relatively little attention in the public policy arena.en
dc.description.sponsorshipInstitute for Higher Education Policyen
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdfen
dc.identifier.sourceurlhttp://www.ihep.org/sites/default/files/uploads/docs/pubs/openingthedoor.pdfen
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10919/83113en
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherInstitute for Higher Education Policyen
dc.rightsCreative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internationalen
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0/en
dc.subjectaccess to higher educationen
dc.subjectimmigrantsen
dc.subjectReadiness for schoolen
dc.subjectcollege enrollmenten
dc.subjectundergraduate studentsen
dc.titleOpening the Door to the American Dream: Increasing Higher Education Access and Success for Immigrantsen
dc.typeReporten
dc.type.dcmitypeTexten

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