The Collegian

Dream Success Center Peer Mentor program is underway

By Francisco J. De León • Sep 13, 2016

Click here to read this story in Spanish. Dreamers, Dream students and AB 540 students are all terms for a specific population at Fresno State, and, according to Gabriela D. Encinas, coordinator of...

El Dream Success Center pondrá en marcha un programa de mentores

By Francisco J. De León • Sep 13, 2016

Click here to read this story in English. Dreamers o estudiantes AB 540 son dos términos para una población especÃfica en la Universidad de Fresno State y de acuerdo con Gabriela D. Encinas, coordinadora...

Fresno State launches fund drive for Dream Center

By Razi Syed • Feb 28, 2016

Fresno State launched a fund drive and a plan to establish an endowment for the university’s Dream Outreach and Success Program on Feb. 16. The program is designed to help undocumented students enter...

Undocumented, but not unemployed

By Troy Pope • Feb 8, 2016

For most people, finding a job is as simple as looking in the want ads or walking into a business with a resume in hand. For students who are undocumented, it’s not that easy. For one thing, undocumented...

Immigration addressed at symposium

By Haley Lambert • Apr 18, 2013

Immigration was the topic of discussion at the 2013 Roger Tatarian Journalism Symposium. The event took place at Fresno State’s Satellite Student Union on Wednesday. The event was cosponsored...

California DREAM Act under debate

By Luke Shaffer • Nov 7, 2011

Gov. Jerry Brown has signed into law the California Development, Relief and Education of Alien Minor Act, also known as the DREAM Act. Opponents of the law have raised questions of the cost and effect of the bill.

Undocumented student survey results

By Danielle Gilbert • May 11, 2011

Public attitudes about undocumented students have been at a divide between those opposed and those in support of Assembly Bill 540 and the DREAM Act.

@issue: Are student-run newspapers biased? What is their role on campus?

By Neil Obrien • May 9, 2011

Have you ever had the chance to read The student-tuition-funded Collegian supplementary insert titled La Voz De Aztlan? This newspaper insert is intended to be used as a cultural appreciation and or awareness supplement. However, recent issues have been filled with articles unrelated to the publication’s intended purpose. In an effort to celebrate “La Semana de La Raza” (week of the race) here on campus, I’d like to share a perspective with those curiously inclined to learn what’s really going on!”

@issue: Are student-run newspapers biased? What is their role on campus?

By Ana Mendoza • May 9, 2011

Journalism’s main purpose is to inform society of vital information that will enable people to actively participate in a democratic government. A democracy heavily depends on the information given by journalists, which has given the media the responsibility to overlook our system of government and our society.

Film addresses the unknown future of undocumented students

By Ana Mendoza • May 3, 2011

The goal of all college students is to one day hold a degree that would lead to a much desired job. But for undocumented students with a degree, acquiring a job is against the law.

Pedro in the news

By Tony Petersen • Jan 19, 2011

While Fresno State students have been away on winter break, Associated Students, Inc. President Pedro Ramirez, whose revelation to The Collegian that he was an undocumented immigrant made national news, has remained in the news for good and not so good reasons.

House passes DREAM Act

By Danielle Gilbert • Dec 9, 2010

Pedro Ramirez, president of the Associated Students, Inc., at Fresno State provided this statement in reaction to the House of Representatives approval of the DREAM Act, which now goes to the U.S. Senate today: