1,720 (81%) Applicants who were awarded TheDream.US National Scholarship have accepted. Thank you for your efforts in making this our most successful round since our beginning!

You can see your New Scholars by running your PC Scholar Report in your ISTS Portal: https://clients.applyists.net/dream

New Scholar Onboarding:

Over this summer, we will send our New Scholars a series of 5 onboarding emails containing key information to help orient them to our Program. The emails will be sent every two weeks on Mondays, starting May 22^nd. Here is the email we sent to New Scholars today.

Save the date! New Scholar Welcome

As part of our annual tradition, we will be hosting a virtual New Scholar Welcome event on August 10^th at 2:00 pm ET. We encourage you to host your own orientation on campus on or around this date.

If you have any questions, please feel free to contact your Relationship Manager.

Does your institution want $15,000 (per program year) to fund inclusive fellowships for your Scholars?! Participate in TheDream.US Experiential Fellowship Program to provide inclusive, paid fellowships to TheDream.US Scholars! The extended deadline to sign up to participate is Friday, July 14.

Steps to Participate in TheDream.US Experiential Fellowship Program:

1. Watch Webinar Recording and review Program’s Concept Paper and OneDrive Folder
2. Determine a Primary Program Point of Contact (POC) and a Secondary Program POC

a)       Required: At least 1 POC must be a TheDream.US Liaison (i.e. Scholar Advisor, Career Liaison, etc.)

1. Craft a 1-2 Concept Paper outlining your Program (this will be uploaded as part of the application). 

• Components that must be included in your Concept Paper can be found on page 2 of our Program’s Concept Paper

1. Primary POC completes PC Fellowship Program Participation Application by EOD Friday, July 14

Within 1 Week of Submitting Application: Kickoff Email will be sent to Primary and Secondary POC. Once Kickoff Email is received, PC can start promoting this program.

Questions? Email nicole.wesley@thedream.us.

Join us Tuesday, May 30th at 2 pm ET for our next PC Power Hour, where we will provide you a sneak peek of our new website and programming for New Scholars as well as information about Scholarship Renewals!

We will discuss:

1.   New Website Sneak Peek: Where to find Scholar and PC resources. 

2.   New Scholar Engagement

3.   Scholarship Renewals: Maximizing timely submissions

4.   Open Forum: Your questions, concerns, and feedback

This session is geared towards Partner Colleges with new and current Scholars. 

We look forward to seeing you there.

Tues. May 30th

11 am PT/ 1 pm CT/ 2 pm ET

Link to join (no need to register)

Graduation ceremonies are in full swing! We appreciate all of our Partner Colleges helping us celebrate our graduating Scholars.

We encourage you to check out the PC Facebook group to see photos and what some of our graduating Scholars are saying in their private Scholar Facebook group.

Attorney Dan Berger will answer Scholar questions regarding Immigration-related matters. In the second half, we will have "Know Your Rights" training led by Jocelyn Aranda-Ortiz from the Illinois Coalition of Immigrant Refugee Rights.

Please encourage Scholars to attend this last Spring session:

Thursday, May 25th

2 pm PT/ 4 pm CT/ 5 pm ET

One link for all sessions (no registration)

1,428 Responses so far! Target: 2,800

Every year we ask our Scholars to:

Pay it forward by providing feedback through our annual surveys in May, and renew their scholarship before the deadline in June.

Right now we are in the #GivebackMonth of May. Please encourage your Scholars to complete their survey by June 1st. The Qualtrics invitation can be found in their inbox from hyein.lee@thedream.us. 

Here is the email that we sent to Scholars last week. Please use this language to share with your Scholars.

Questions – please reach out to Hyein.Lee@thedream.us

To help address the many inquiries and concerns from our Florida Scholars about the new anti-immigrant bill, we hosted a virtual "Lunch and Learn" Zoom session last Friday.

We presented the session in both English and Spanish, with 20 minutes dedicated to each language, and questions answered throughout.

You can view the recording here.

We invite eligible Scholars to apply for Teach for America’s Ignite Fellowship for the fall 2023 semester! Ignite is a virtual, paid, part-time tutoring fellowship sponsored by Teach For America.

The fellowship is open to all TheDream.US Scholars who have an ITIN or SSN (work authorization is not required), have at least a 2.5 GPA, and meet other eligibility criteria. Fellows receive $1,200 per semester. All majors are welcome.

Here is the email we sent to all current Scholars. The deadline to apply is June 7th.