Title | Dreams Deferred and Dreams Denied |
Publication Type | Article |
Year of Publication | 2010 |
Authors | Díaz-Strong, Daysi, Christina Gómez, María E. Luna-Duarte, and Erica R. Meiners |
Newspaper/Magazine | Academe |
Volume | 96 |
Number | 3 |
Publisher | American Association of University Professors |
Publication Language | eng |
http://www.aaup.org/AAUP/pubsres/academe/2010/MJ/feat/diaz.htm
"Undocumented students need both access and services to succeed--and often, they get neither.
Luz came to the United States from Mexico at eleven months old with her mother. She graduated from a suburban Chicago high school in 2007 with an ACT score of 29 (out of a possible 36). Accepted by all four universities to which she applied, she selected a private college in Chicago that offered her a generous scholarship. Even with the scholarship, however, Luz had to leave the college after one semester for a much more affordable community college." ...