Tag: daca

Center for DREAMers outreach efforts support DACAmented students in Wisconsin

In October 2021, with a grant through the Baldwin Wisconsin Idea Endowment, the University of Wisconsin Law School launched a new center to support Wisconsin’s DREAMers, an all-encompassing term describing individuals who have lived in the United States without official lawful status since coming to the country as a minor. Now, five months later, the …

UW-Madison’s new Center for DREAMers builds a unified space for DACA recipients

Navigating college can be confusing. But being undocumented or a DACA recipient while in college can make things even more complicated. Read the full article.

Social Work Students to Serve Clients at New Center for DREAMers

A new center at UW–Madison will help DREAMers in Wisconsin access and coordinate legal representation, mental health and social services, educational and career counseling, and provide a place of community. The Sandra Rosenbaum School of Social Work is delighted to partner with the new Center for DREAMers on this important project. Clients of the center will …

UW Law School Clinical Professor Erin Barbato receives grant to launch Center for DREAMers

The UW Law School will launch a new center to support Wisconsin’s DREAMers, an all-encompassing term describing individuals who have lived in the United States without official lawful status since coming to the country as a minor. The Center for DREAMers was awarded a grant through the Baldwin Wisconsin Idea Endowment, a competitive grant program …

WIDA’s Erika Rosales Wins $110K WI Idea Grant to Help DREAMers

The School of Education’s Wisconsin Center for Education Research is delighted to congratulate Erika Rosales on her two-year, $110,000 grant from the Baldwin Wisconsin Idea Endowment to create the Center for DREAMers at UW with Erin Barbato, director of the Immigrant Justice Clinic at UW Law School. Barbato, a clinical professor, will be co-project leader and …

UW–Madison outlines policies on immigrant students, faculty and staff

In recent weeks, many around campus, and in the broader community, have expressed concerns about the future of undocumented or international students, staff, and faculty and their families.  This includes those students who presently benefit from the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program. The University of Wisconsin–Madison is a diverse place, with students, faculty …