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California Law Allows Undocumented College Students to Receive Private Financial Aid

July 25, 2011, 8:57 pm

California’s governor signed into law today a measure that will allow undocumented students who are eligible for in-state tuition to compete for private financial aid available through the state’s public college and university systems, according to news reports. The bill, AB 130, is one segment of a two-part legislative package known as the “California Dream Act.” The second bill, AB 131, which is still pending in the State Senate, is more controversial. It would make undocumented students eligible for state-supported financial aid.

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  • HeSaid1

    This is a common misconception. There may be private scholarships/grants involved, but AB 130 also includes Board of Governors (BOG) Fee Waiver, and Institutional Student Aid: Student aid program administered by the attending college or university (i.e. State University Grant, UC Grant).

    I’m just setting the facts straight as the rhetoric leans towards this being NOT using PUBLIC FUNDS, while, in fact, it does. This comes directly from CA Assemblyman Gilbert Cedillo’s DREAM Act memos:

    http://as.ucsd.edu/council-old/act_attachments/Attachment%20120110216181738.pdf

    And as for AB 131 only being assigned to ILLEGAL ALIENS after US citizens are handled is misleading. Lori Nehzurah, Governmental Relations staff of the California Student Aid Commission, has been misquoted in perpetuating in this matter: EGPnews.com

    “On behalf of the California Student Aid Commission, I am requesting a correction to a quote attributed to me, Lori Nezhura, Legislative Director for the California Student Aid Commission, in the “Trying to Keep the Dream Alive” article posted on July 14, 2011.It is imperative that your readers be informed that the number of High School Entitlement Cal Grants and Transfer Entitlement Cal Grants are unlimited and available to all students meeting financial need, GPA, and other eligibility criteria. Therefore, if passed, Dream Act students will be able to receive these awards if they meet the same requirements.Conversely, the number of Competitive Cal Grants is limited. However, the bill stipulates that Dream Act students may
    only receive one of these awards provided funds remain after all eligible non-AB 540 California residents are awarded. Since approximately only 1 in 10 eligible applicants currently receive a Competitive Cal Grant, it is likely that there will be no fiscal impact to the State with respect to this particular program.”

    So, where is this money supposed to come from? 

    I am now voting Republican on every issue and candidate so that this can be repealed and deportations en masse may start.  We have allowed ourselves to be inundated with ILLEGAL ALIENS who take our jobs, ruined our education system by catering to them, and now, have pushed out LEGAL IMMIGRANTS and US CITIZENS from receiving their entitled share of these monies.  If AB 131 passes and gets signed, I fear that many people will not wait until the next election to rectify this self-hatred Californians seem to have for themselves and their own children.

  • julie_beck

    What great, great news..would be wonderful if other states would follow.  Thank you California.
    Julie Beck, College Consultant
    Eugene, ORegon

  • 11122741

    get a life Julie, really.

  • _perplexed_

    Oh great, “deportations en masse.”  Think guards with automatic weapons, boxcars, and dogs straining on their leashes.  How else do you relocate millions of people against their will?

    AB 130 and 131 will hardly improve matters for higher education in California, but I will not condone mass deportation and the police state required to implement such actions as an alternative policy.

  • akprof

    If you are voting Republican on every issue, you are voting against your own economic self-interest – and at least part of your reason for doing so is that you want to punish people who were brought here by their parents when they were too young to be invovled in the decision, who were then integrated into American society, often excelling in school – you want to punish them? How fair-minded of you.

  • chandrak

    It is a sad day that California Governor has signed this measure into law.   California is in a bad shape and the Governor has signed this measure into law.  Most probably, AB 131 may be signed into law.  The Governor is a democrat and a liberal.  He doesn’t care about the country or the people. 

  • cp3242

    Attack the argument, not the person. 

  • Emmadw

    That’s what I thought, too …

    I had been following https://twitter.com/Genny_Spencer – which was her real diary, but that’s not updated for a while judging by the current view. Perhaps her diary ran out!

  • http://fungibleconvictions.com/ Andrew Whitacre

    You’re probably right. It’s one of those things where you’d yell “But this is a perfect use of your platform!” at Facebook should FB take it down.

  • ahirshon

    Surely FB has many better things to worry about than whether a project that was clearly done for educational purposes is an invasion of a dead man’s privacy, especially when the heirs have given permission to use the name, images and history for this purpose.   Given the repeated problems FB has had with privacy issues, this one has to rank as an issue only for the beyond-the-purists.  This sort of project is creative and deserves to be commented upon and appreciated for being a great idea.  Let’s friend joe1915 rather than worry about academic policy concerns. 

  • lindsay07

    I’m curious as to others’ thoughts too. Where is the line drawn in what can violate TOS for an institution? Right now, I’m trying to convince our school’s mascot that it needs to be a fan page rather than a profile… Things like this, while cool, kind of undermine my authority to say that the TOS must be followed.

  • apeters1

    Here at the University of Texas at San Antonio Libraries, we maintain a Twitter feed based on the diary of James Redford, Sr., an item within our special collections. Redford moved from Canada to Texas in 1877 at the age of 54 to homestead 160 acres in Sandy, Texas. His concise descriptions of the daily goings-on at the homestead—weather conditions, crop yields, livestock, and family and community matters—lend themselves nicely to Twitter’s 140-character limit. @RedfordDiaries:twitter

  • http://twitter.com/shack_poet jonas lamb

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