undocumented students

Because I am unDACAmented, I don’t have a reliable income. The only way I have been able to attend UC Berkeley is through financial aid, grants, scholarships and paid opportunities.

It’s unimaginably nerve-wracking to have the most powerful forces in the nation acting against you, but there is also a coalition of institutions fighting to preserve that chance.

This Wednesday, the regents will consider implementing both an increase in tuition for nonresident students and a cap on their enrollment. Although the UC system is a public university that should primarily serve local students, Wednesday’s proposals would not only harm existing students but would also completely contradict the university’s mission statement of promoting educational equity.

Husband and wife and campus alumni, José Luis Bedolla and Lisa García Bedolla, have endowed the Miguel and Elvira Bedolla Scholarship to support undocumented students at UC Berkeley.

The UC Board of Regents will convene at its fall meeting Wednesday and Thursday at UCSF Mission Bay to vote on a new three-year financial sustainability plan and potentially discuss university tuition increases.

Five million dollars in funding for undocumented UC students is set to expire in June, with many urging UC President Janet Napolitano to renew the initiative.

For the first time, undocumented students throughout the UC system can receive financial aid, as the university officially announced Thursday an initial $5 million in funding for the California DREAM Loan Program.