October Symposium
How Immigration Developments Are Impacting Campus Community Members: Strategies & Resources for Residential and Campus Life
Residential life plays a crucial role in fostering a sense of safety and belonging among immigrant and international students. This session will address the latest immigration developments affecting students and employees on campus. Participants will have the opportunity to discuss strategies and resources for residential and campus life teams. Topics will include preparing for increased immigration enforcement on campus, supporting detained and deported students, dealing with shifting international student enrollments, the need for new flexibilities, navigating complex immigration policies, and understanding methods for noncitizen students and staff to pursue employment-based immigration options.
This program is being offered in collaboration with the Presidents’ Alliance on Higher Education and Immigration.
Takeaways:
- Participants will engage in peer-to-peer discussion and strategic planning to reimagine how residential life can support immigrant and international students’ rights and navigate shifting immigration policies in various state contexts
- Participants will share campus-specific approaches for dealing with changing international student enrollments and the need for new flexibilities
- Participants will leave with concrete examples of protocols to address immigration enforcement and best practices on how to support detained students
- Participants will learn about employment-based immigration pathways, and resources that noncitizen students and staff can use.
Rates
Includes lunch on October 23, 2025
| Status | Rate |
|---|---|
| Members | $149 |
| Non-Members | $199 |
| Grad Students* | $99 |
Speakers
Monica Andrade
Director of State Policy and Legal Strategy
Presidents’ Alliance on Higher Education and Immigration
Monica Andrade is the director of state policy and legal strategy for the Presidents’ Alliance on Higher Education and Immigration, where she coordinates its state policy agenda related to undocumented students and other immigrant populations in higher education. Prior she was the immigrant rights staff attorney at the ACLU of Michigan, where she litigated high-impact civil rights cases focused on immigrants’ rights in state and federal courts and advocated for policies to protect such rights. Andrade earned a bachelor’s degree from Northern Arizona University, where she majored in social work and a law degree from Michigan State University College of Law. Her passion for immigration advocacy stems from her own journey navigating higher education as an undocumented student.
Miriam Feldblum, Ph.D.
Co-Founder & Executive Director
Presidents’ Alliance on Higher Education and Immigration
Miriam Feldblum is a national expert on the intersection of immigration and higher education. She has written extensively and delivered presentations on undocumented, international, and refugee students, immigration policy and higher education, and highly skilled labor in the United States. She is a non-resident fellow at the Migration Policy Institute and author of Reconstructing Citizenship: The Politics of Nationality Reform and Immigration in Contemporary France. Feldblum previously served as vice president for student affairs, dean of students, and professor of politics at Pomona College, as special assistant to the president, faculty research associate, and senior director at the California Institute of Technology, and as an assistant professor at the University of San Francisco. She received a BA in political science from Barnard College, and MA, MPhil, and Ph.D. degrees in political science from Yale University.
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