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Program to assist undocumented in North Carolina to study in Mexico

Alexandra Vilchez

Charlotte (Carolina del Norte), 3 mar (EFE).- Aunque todavÃ*a los estudiantes indocumentados de Carolina del Norte no pueden asistir a...


03/03/2009 | EFE.-Alexandra Vilchez

Charlotte (Carolina del Norte), 3 mar (EFE).- Unlike it has always been the undocumented students can not get help now within the university system,, a new program offers them the opportunity to take classes on line.

This is owing to the interest of the Lenoir-Rhyne University, a private institution affiliated with the Lutheran Evangelical Church of the Americas located in Hickory, in the north of the state, for the creation of initiatives to respond to the educational necessities of the growing Hispanic Community which has given birth to the Latino Association.

The educational institution is soliciting help at the local community organization Centro Latino to identify students without immigration status who have graduated or are about to graduate who want to continue studies at the university level.

According to Crystal Massey, director of the after school program of Cento Latino already the initiative has prepared three students to take their courses online offered by the Universitario TecMilenio an affiliate of the Monterrey PolyTechnic University System, one of the most prestigious universities in Mexico .

On this past August the Community College system of North Carolina decided not to continue to permit the undocumented alumni to get assistance at which ever center including even if they pay out of state tuition.


It is not acceptable to completely take away the access to education of other wise qualified youth that have passed the majority of their lives here. They have had to wait and hope more than eight years for their situation to change. With this initiative we can give them some help. affirms Ms. Massey.

Massey explains that a professor at Lenoir-Rhynne assisted at the Center two times a week to teach classes in the improvement of Spanish to the youth they could speak basic conversational Spanish but could not write at the university level.

The objective is that they will have ten other students and so that we will continue running this in order to have this option, she empasizes

Duane Kirkman special assistant for program development of Lenoir-Rhynne told this reporter today that very soon they will have access to computers, library cards and a place to meet on the university campus.

The immediate goal of the program is to find organizations and individuals willing to donate economic funds so that other students can study here as well. We need this help points out Kirkman who is also former superintendant of the Hickory Public School system.

According to Massey a matriculant of a course of three credit hours in TecMilenio is less than $300 dollars in comparison with $600 dollars for each credit in the private universities in the state. It is even cheaper now with the decline in the peso

Some students that were in the community college sytem are dropping out on account of the regulation. Now they are seriously considering a four year dgree in other institutions including the options offered by TecMilenio, say Massey..

Without exception other North Carolina Hispanic institutions have not given up and continue to fight so that undocumented Hispanics are permitted to study in the universities where they are living.

Rubén Campillo, of the Coalición Latinoamericana in Charlotte, told this reporter from EFE today that this week a group of Latinos are meeting in the capitol with a delegation of North Carolina Congress and Senate legislators to find help in passing the DREAM Act.

We have not lost hope that passage of this law will permit the youth without legal immigrant status to complete their dreams of completing college education. We have new leaders in the state and we hope that they will vote in our favor, said Campillo..

Campillo together with the student group Adelante, are disseminating the information among secondary schools of the option of taking a university career on line and other available options.

We are seeking government change there are a lot of youth who want to succeed points out Campillo.

Mean while the North Carolina based anti immigrant group ALIPAC Americanos por la Inmigración Legal Pac (ALIPAC), sent out in an email to its members to be ready to initiate a campaign to be ready to counter whatever poroposals might benefit the undocumented including acess to universities and colleges.

We have learned from the lessons of the past. We need to send out the largest number of letters, faxes messages to Congress when they are presenting pro illegal projects.. Therew are going to be alerts affirmed William Gheen,president of ALIPAC.

The joint leadership of the Community College System are going to know soon the preliminary results of a study about the costs and the impact undocumented students have on the centers of superior education. Whew!

EFE

This is a program that would permit Mexican citizens living illegally in North Carolina to do their studies on line with a university in Northern Mexico. I will translate bit by bit.

The program allows high school graduates to get college education and degrees on their computers.

Hmmm....we have a program they are starting for adults to get their GED by studing the Mexican schools programs. Which then maybe might get them to be able to eventually learn English.

Just don't know how this works........can't be assured at all that the classes are even close or even what exactly they're teaching. Not to mention, if this is college, how comparable are their standards to ours?

I am sicker than sick. Why does government ignore the undocumented illegals?

The program allows high school graduates to get college education and degrees on their computers.

Sure hope it's not for Dr.s and such......there are times when hands on is definately needed and book learning alone isn't enough.

Is it for anyone, or just hispanic illegals?

Thank you very much for the translation Richard. Great work!

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