LACCD’s goal of focusing on higher education and DACA students
Los Angeles Community College District Board President Steve Veres said students and DACA are LACCDs main focus for growth at the DACA/Immigration Task Force Meeting via Zoom.
Los Angeles Community College District Board President Steve Veres said students and DACA are LACCDs main focus for growth at the DACA/Immigration Task Force Meeting via Zoom.
East Los Angeles College Academic Senate unanimously approved a motion to create an ad-hoc committee, to acknowledge the first native inhabitants that resided on ELAC’s present site.
East Los Angeles College will receive a refund from the district and has set student needs as its priority for the 2021 Spring semester budget.
Changes are proposed to both current immigration laws in the form of the United States Citizenship Act of 2021, and public charge rules. Julie Mitchell, managing attorney at the Central American Resource Center (CARECEN), said the Trump administration made public charge much more confusing by changing the definition.
The LACCD board of trustees held a meeting to discuss student housing and money that is being lent by the government for the COVID pandemic. Senior Policy Adviser for the law firm Holland and Knight Leslie Pollner, was the first to speak in the meeting.
East Los Angeles College is allowing students to access the school Wi-Fi on campus as a result of COVID-19.
President Joseph R. Biden’s day-one executive orders and the proposed U.S. Citizenship Act of 2021 provide a path to citizenship for many undocumented students, but the order faces some legal challenges. East Los Angeles College’s Dream Resource Center and the Central American Resource Center (CARECEN) held a meeting covering both executive orders and the proposed act on Wednesday.
East Los Angeles College will receive a refund from the district and has set student needs as its priority for the 2021 Spring semester budget.
Current Interim President Alberto J. Roman was unanimously elected as East Los Angeles College’s next permanent president by the Los Angeles Community College District Board of Trustees on Dec. 16. Roman is set to begin on Jan. 1, 2021.
Remote learning classes at East Los Angeles College are expected to be extended into the fall semester of 2021. Since April, classes at ELAC have been online as COVID-19 pandemic continues to go on.