The City University's Creation To Provide Education For The Children Of Immigrant

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The City University’s Creation to Provide Education for the Children of Immigrant
Introduction
The increased population of immigrants and their children in the United States is stretching the countries resources across the social, political, and economic sectors through which the government attends to the needs of its citizens. Among the sectors whose challenges arise from the increasing immigrant population in the United States is the nation’s higher education sector. The country boasts of one of the most coveted educational systems around the world with outstanding achievements in fields such as science and technology as well as research and development. However, the accessibility of higher education to immigrants and their dependents poses a challenge to the educational system especially the institutions of higher learning. Immigrants and their children find it difficult to access the crucial higher education through which they can elevate themselves and become resourceful members of American society. The inaccessibility to higher education for the immigrant youth contradicts the nation’s principles of freedom, equality and liberty for all as it denies them the primary tenet of equal educational opportunities, which is among the key ingredient for living one’s dreams in the United States. Nevertheless, colleges and universities around the nation are putting up measures to increase the accessibility to higher education for the immigrant youth who are locked out of their dreams of acquiring college or university education.
Background Information
The United States of America’s belief in the democratic principles and ideologies of liberty, freedom, and equality for all forms the basis for the nation’s envied success across various sectors. The nation’s democratic principles provide equal opportunity for all its citizens to achieve their dreams of prosperity and enhancing their lives through personal and community development. The perceived success of American society and the possibilities of changing one’s life by actualizing their dreams makes the nation a target for immigrants from all over the world. A nation that is characteristic of an immigrant background owing to the cultural diversity of its citizens is currently facing a challenge from the influx of immigrants and asylum-seeking individuals from different countries around the world. Providing higher education to the children of immigrant functions to help in the nation’s integration and integration of individual from the diverse cultural backgrounds characterizing the American community as a whole. A report by the National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM), for instance, highlights the positive impact of availing higher education for the immigrants as being an essential factor for the nation’s sustainable growth and development across the social, political, and economic sectors CITATION Nat15 \l 1033 (National Academy of Sciences). An overview of some of the statistics on immigrants in the United States provides a framework for analyzing the situation or the educational differences or lack thereof between the native-born citizens and ...