MPI TO HOST EVENT ON IN STATE TUITION FOR ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS

In-State College Tuition for Unauthorized Immigrants?: Leading Law Professors Debate at MPI

When:

Friday, April 6, 2007
9:00 am to 11:00 am

Where:

MPI Conference Room
1400 16th Street, NW
Suite 300 (Third Floor)
Washington, DC, 20036

Speakers:

Kris W. Kobach, Daniel L. Brenner Scholar and Professor of Law, University of Missouri-Kansas City;

Michael A. Olivas, William B. Bates Distinguished Chair of Law and Director, Institute of Higher Education Law & Governance, University of Houston Law Center

Moderator:

Daniel M. Kowalski, Editor-in-Chief, Bender's Immigration Bulletin


This event is being sponsored by Bender's Immigration Bulletin, the College Board, and the Migration Policy Institute.

While the DREAM Act and Student Adjustment Act are pending in Congress, state legislatures are struggling to decide whether to extend or deny in-state tuition to unauthorized immigrant students. Since 2001, ten states have extended in-state tuition status to unauthorized immigrants, while three have restricted access. Please join us as two leading legal experts debate the merits of proposed federal immigration legislation, the DREAM Act, and in-state college tuition for unauthorized immigrant students.

Professor Kris W. Kobach is the Daniel L. Brenner Scholar and Professor of Law at the University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Law, where he teaches courses on Constitutional Law and Immigration. He has served as trial counsel in immigration-related cases in Kansas, California, and Pennsylvania, where he has brought challenges to residency tuition status for unauthorized immigrants and defended local immigration ordinances. He also served in the Department of Justice as chief advisor on immigration law and border security and counsel to Attorney General John Ashcroft.

Professor Michael A. Olivas, is the William B. Bates Distinguished Chair of Law and Director of the Institute of Higher Education Law & Governance at the University of Houston Law Center, where he teaches Higher Education Law and Immigration Law. He has written about in-state residency plans for many years, drafted several such plans (including the first one, Texas HB 1403), and has served as expert witness and consultant to states seeking to enact and defend such plans. He is also the author of The Law and Higher Education casebook, in its third edition.

If you have any questions, please email Lisa Dixon at events@migrationpolicy.org or call 202-266-1929.

Date: Friday, April 6, 2007
Time: 9:00 AM - 11:00 AM

If you'd like to attend this event you can RSVP online.

http://contact.migrationpolicy.org/site/Calendar?view=Detail&id=3061#RSVP