A College for Undocumented Students Created in California

Associated Press. Last year, Georgia lawmakers mulled a bill that would have barred undocumented immigrants from attending college. A group of college professors then banded together to offer those students an education.
Now a similar effort to Freedom University, as it was called, is going national.
A project called National Dream University, mirrored after the Georgia effort, is being formed in California. It’s a collaboration between the University of California, Los Angeles Center for Labor Research and Education and the National Labor College.
It aims to offer online courses for college credit to young immigrant and labor rights activists who want to attend college.
The project was inspired by an effort last year in Georgia to reach out to undocumented immigrant students barred from area universities and President Obama's decision to grant temporary work permits to many young undocumented immigrants.
 In Georgia, five professors offered to teach a rigorous, once-a-week seminar that would have mirrored courses taught at academically-rigorous Georgia schools. It was meant for Georgia students who graduated from high school but barred from attending a top state school because of Georgia state education policy, which was later dropped. More...