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The World is covering the challenges that immigrants -- as well as non-native English speakers -- face in accessing higher education in the United States. On June 19, as part [...]

As Ana Chavarin cleaned strangers' homes, scrubbed dishes in restaurants and vacuumed offices at night as an undocumented immigrant in Tucson, she craved the chance to get an education. Her [...]

When Jin Kyu Park, 22, found out he was among 32 students in the United States to be awarded the prestigious Rhodes Scholarship, he said he shared the emotional moment [...]

Until recently, Maria Geneva Reyes's plan seemed pretty straightforward. She would finish her last semester at Skyline College in San Bruno, California, and transfer this fall to a California State [...]

Mariana Hernandez wore a wreath of artificial flowers around her graduation cap, an homage to the late artist Frida Kahlo. Then she walked onto the stage, shook hands with her [...]

To listen to this broadcast, click here: http://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/cdn.pri.org/sites/default/files/segment-audio/06032016_02.mp3 Have you ever seen a beating heart, pulsing on its own for hours, outside of the body? I got to see one [...]

To listen to this broadcast, click here: http://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/cdn.pri.org/sites/default/files/pris-world/segment-audio/0505201603.mp3 Let's say you're an undocumented high school senior, but you're temporarily protected from deportation because of the Barack Obama administration's Deferred Action [...]

To listen to this broadcast, click here: http://cdn.pri.org/sites/default/files/110620132.mp3 Colorado, Minnesota and Oregon this year became the latest states to offer in-state tuition rates for undocumented students, bringing the national tally [...]