- Advocacy
A Plea from America's Scholars
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December 17, 2010
It Is Time For Congress To Take Action And Reform Our Nation’s Immigration Laws: A Plea From America’s Scholars
May 1, 2013
The history of America is a history of immigration. Starting with our country’s founding by idealistic newcomers, the waves of immigrants who settled in the United States have continuously added to our culture and national identity. However, America’s immigration system has become out of step with the social and economic needs of our nation and, therefore, we believe policies must change. As university professors from across the United States, we believe that reforming our immigration laws is both the right thing to do and is in our nation’s best interests. As the community responsible for educating the next generation of Americans, we see the harm that a broken immigration system has had on our students and their families.
For immigrant students who have studied and grown up in the U.S., we need to ensure that they have the opportunities to continue their education and settle into their careers in the U.S. Similarly, immigrants with credentials and skills already living in the U.S. should have the opportunity to practice their professions here.
The positive effects that immigrant students have on our education system are manifold. Immigrant students contribute to the diversity of our classrooms, which in turn has a positive impact on all students. Diversity has been shown to be positively associated with students’ cognitive development, satisfaction with their educational experience, and leadership skills.
We are educating these students in the U.S., but the broken immigration system makes it extremely difficult for students to stay and build a life in this country and for U.S. employers to hire them. Immigration reform needs to address these shortcomings. Furthermore, as immigrants are highly likely to start businesses and contribute to innovation at a time when the U.S. economy needs it most, we must ensure that the opportunities for business start-ups and innovative collaboration within the United States are not lost.
More than the contributions that immigrants make through their research and entrepreneurship, they are members of our communities. Congress' failure to pass immigration reform is contributing to the creation of a permanent underclass of marginalized individuals surviving in the shadows of society and facing overwhelming economic and social burdens. It is especially troubling that millions of undocumented children who would have benefited from the DREAM Act – American in spirit but not in law – are now enrolled in U.S. schools, but will not be able to lawfully gain employment at the end of their education.
And increasingly, immigrants are living in mixed-status families, or households where some family members are undocumented, some are citizens, while others immigrated legally. And a decade of enforcement-only immigration policies has separated families and communities through deportation. Our immigrant students are likely to have family members who are undocumented or have been deported, and the deportations of family and community members have lasting consequences for them. Legal, secure families and communities will increase the persistence, graduation rates, and success of students from immigrant and post-immigrant backgrounds. There will be an impressive payoff to this investment in the future of our nation.
With support from all sides, the signs are clear that now is the time for Congress to act on immigration reform. The U.S. is operating with a broken immigration system that is limiting the potential of thousands of immigrant students and blocking millions more immigrants from being able to achieve citizenship in a country they already call home. The current system is damaging to individuals, families, communities, and the economy. We think America is better than this. It is time for Congress to fix this upside-down moral universe and pass comprehensive immigration reform that includes a clear, earned path to citizenship. It is time for Congress to take action and reform our nation’s immigration laws to match our 21st century world.
- Patricia A. McManus, Indiana University
- Richard Alba, The City University of New York
- Carola Suarez-Orozco, University of California, Los Angeles
- Cynthia Garcia Coll, Brown University
- Socorro Hernandez-Hinek, Fayetteville State University
- Michael A. Olivas, University of Houston
- Helen B. Marrow, Tufts University
- John S.W. Park, University of California, Santa Barbara
- Donald S. Dobkin, Central Michigan University
- Hirokazu Yoshikawa, Harvard University
- David T. Takeuchi, University of Washington
- Van C. Tran, Columbia University
- Linda Bosniak, Rutgers Law School
- Douglas S. Massey, Princeton University
- Joanna Dreby, University at Albany
- Grace Kao, University of Pennsylvania
- Clara C. Mojica Diaz, Tennessee State University
- Rodolfo Rosales, University of Texas at San Antonio
- Clariza Barbee, The Art Institute of Nashville
- De Ann Pendry, University of Tennessee-Knoxville
- O. Shelley Kemp, Victory University
- Rachel Carmack, Volunteer State Community College
- Eric Melcher, Volunteer State Community College
- Sherryl A. Byrd, Austin Peay State University
- Sandeep Nadiminti, Wichita State University
- Daniel Naujoks, Institute of International Economics
- Filiberto Barajas-López, University of Washington-Seattle
- Jennifer Hinton, Naropa University
- H. Nolo Martinez, University of North Carolina at Greensboro
- Roberto G. Gonzales, University of Chicago
- Milena U. Janiec-Grygo, University of South Florida
- Kirsten F. Nigro, University of Texas at El Paso
- Rachel E. Rosenbloom, Northeastern University
- Cinzia Solari, University of Massachusetts Boston
- Maria Cristina Morales, University of Texas at El Paso
- Zulma Y. Mendez, University of Texas at El Paso
- María Socorro Tabuenca, The University of Texas at El Paso
- Stephanie J. Silverman, York University
- LaToya Tavernier, The City University of New York
- Jason Eyster, Thomas M. Cooley Law School
- Sunita Agrawal, East Carolina University
- Elizabeth Broderick, Boston College
- Jennifer Hochschild, Harvard University
- Pei-te Lein, University of California Santa Barbara
- Dvora Yanow, California State University, East Bay
- Andrew M. Manis, Middle Georgia State College
- Kate Carabalona, Hunter College
- Alexander Caviedes, State University of New York at Fredonia
- Daniel Fulks, Transylvania University
- Roger Waldinger, University of California, Los Angeles
- Jeannett Manzanero, Palm Beach State College
- Michele Johnson, Trinity University
- Kathleen Kim, Loyola Law School
- David A. Shirk, University of San Diego
- Louis DeSipio, University of California, Irvine
- Tom K. Wong, University of California, San Diego
- Karthika Sasikumar, San Jose State University
- Marianne Githens, Goucher College
- Ruben Martinez, Michigan State University
- Rameez Abbas, Johns Hopkins University
- C. David Hollister, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities
- Mark I. Choate, Brigham Young University
- Karla McKanders, University of Tennessee College of Law
- Christine Thurlow Brenner, University of Massachusetts Boston
- Ellen K. Boegel, St. John's University
- Varun Rao Bhamidimarri, Kansas State University
- Inés Valdez, The Ohio State University
- Richard Vengroff, Kennesaw State University
- Cindy Hahamovitch, College of William & Mary
- Vicky Ortiz, Purdue University
- Leila Kawar, Bowling Green State University
- Daniel J. Tichenor, University of Oregon
- Jennifer Lee Koh, Western State College of Law
- Katsuo Nishikawa, Trinity University
- Michael Jones-Correa, Cornell University
- Eva M. Moya, University of Texas at El Paso
- Maria Isabel Ayala, Michigan State University
- Stephanie DiPietro, University of Missouri-St. Louis
- Lilian Shea, University of San Diego
- Jennifer Golden, Yeshiva University
- Sarah Paoletti, University of Pennsylvania
- James Witte, George Mason University
- Jennifer A. Jones, University of Notre Dame
- Paula Amato, Oregon Health and Science University
- Ann Beck, Murray State University
- Stacy Caploq, Brooklyn Law School
- Joan Wynne, Florida International University
- Larry Milliken, Drexel University
- Jeffrey H. Cohen, The Ohio State University
- Venus Bermudez, Brooklyn Law School
- Joanne Gottesman, Rutgers University
- Susan Hazeldean, Cornell Law School
- Elizabeth J. Kruse, University of Wisconsin-Platteville
- Mark L. Jones, Mercer University
- Nirav Shah, Northwestern Polytechnic University
- Serena Maurer, University of Washington
- Saunjuhi Verma, Duke University
- Suchita Chaudhry, University of Maryland
- Maqsood A. Chotani, The Ohio State University
- Carmen T. Sotomayor, The University of North Carolina at Greensboro
- Sarah Soliman, University of Kentucky
- Natalicia Tracy, University of Massachusetts Boston
- Sylvia Y. Sanchez, George Mason University
- Mary Beth Reardon, Duke University
- Hemanth Jatti, Shippensburg University
- Byju N Govindan, Purdue University
- Priyadarshini Bala, Fairleigh Dickinson University
- Roberto Alvarez, University of California, San Diego
- Evadne E. Ngazimbi, Central Connecticut State University
- Meghan Conley, University of Tennessee
- James W. Austin, University of Missouri-Kansas City
- Alan Desmond , University College Cork
- Guadalupe Herrera-Simpson, California State University, Northridge
- Andrea Ramos, Southwestern Law School
- Yadwinder Deol, The Ohio State University
- Neil Hernandez, Hostos Community College of the City University of New York
- Timothy Sieber, University of Massachusetts Boston
- Arthi Reddy, Texas State University
- Janardhan Kambalapally, Lawrence Technological University
- Shailendra Chandwani, St. Cloud State University
- George J. Gordon, Illinois State University
- Phanikanth Ranga, University of Louisiana at Lafayette
- Alicia Naomi Morgan, West Virginia University
- Kristi Rudelius-Palmer, University of Minnesota
- Wendy Feliz, Johns Hopkins University
- Muralidhar Gubba, Northern Illinois University
- Muralikrishna Kothapelli, Silicon Valley University
- Karthik Ramanathan, University of Massachusetts Lowell
- Sharon Cosh, Ouachita Baptist University
- Kiran Bethina, University of South Alabama
- Nripa Neupane, Wichita State University
- Thaddeus Nzomo, Kent State University
- C. Kothari, Wichita State University
- Harinvamsi Madduri, Long Island University
- Sameer Wadhane, California State University, Chico
- Luis Martinez-Fernandez, University of Central Florida
- Manjuswari Pokharel, Concordia University, Irvine
- Graciela Helguero-Balcells, Florida Atlantic University and Walden University
- Roger Barry, University of Cincinnati
- Katie Herbert Meyer, Washington University in St. Louis
- Randy Albelda, University of Massachusetts Boston
- Arun Yenumula, Western Michigan University
- Kit Johnson, The University of Oklahoma
- Melanie Harper, St. Mary's University
- Rachel Herman, University of Central Missouri
- Laura Jean Palmer-Moloney, University of South Florida
- Marcia Leon, Notre Dame College
- Alvaro Huerta, University of California, Los Angeles
- Shalini Immanni, Louisiana State University of Shreveport
- Debra J. Bolton, Kansas State University
- Dawn S. Bowen, University of Mary Washington
- Swetha Pannala, Western Kentucky University
- Lori Loftis, University of Notre Dame
- Larry Nackerud, University of Georgia
- Christopher M. Bacon, Santa Clara University
- Jen Boyle, Coastal Carolina University
- Altha Cravey, University of North Carolina
- Billy Hall, Florida International University
- Anand Chandra, University of South Carolina
- Sudarshana Sengupta, Harvard University
- K. Jayachandran, Florida Institute of Technology
- Satyasai Vaddadi, University of Memphis
- Yousof Whetzel Nesari, Bridgewater College
- Manish Sharma, Kansas State University
- Pranojit Chanda, Villanova University
- Peggy Bristol-Wright, John F. Kennedy University
- Somiranjan Ghosh, Howard University
- Girija Shivaji Shinde, Volunteer State Community College
- Satish Gupta, Montgomery College
- Linda A. Brandmiller, University of the Incarnate Word
- Satish Kumar Nagula, New York Institute of Technology
- Vandana Patidar, Purdue University
- Pramod Bellamkonda, City College of New York
- Ruchi Grover, New York University
- Abdul W. Zarrar, Gannon University
- Royce Bernstein Murray, University of the District of Columbia
- Gaurav Bhatti, Wayne State University
- Uday Madireddy, State University of New York at Buffalo
- Frances Rizo, University of North Texas
- Ronak Goswami, Lamar University
- Katherine Punteney, Monterey Institute of International Studies
- Aurelia Lorena Murga, University of Texas at El Paso
- Marcia Magnus, Florida International University
- Margaret Singer, University of Dayton
- Susan Constantine, Keystone College
- Tiffany Joseph, Stony Brook University
- Rebecca S. Powers, East Carolina University
- Adrienne Douglass, George Mason University
- Arunabh Chattopadhyay, University of California, Los Angeles
- Michael Blumenthal, West Virginia University
- Mohamed Abdussalam, University of Arkansas
- Kristy A. Watkins, University of Massachusetts
- Veera Kumar Vuppu, University of Kentucky, Lexington
- Carolyn Trachtova, Webster University
- Sadhak Sengupta, Boston University
- Srikanth Gali, Texas A&M University
- Vamshi Kodthivada, University of Minnesota
- Kristin Sziarto, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
- Pradeep Challa, Alabama A&M University
- Jagannath Valaiyapathy, Texas Tech University
- Jeff Unsicker, School for International Training Graduate Institute
- John Ungerleider, School for International Training Graduate Institute
- Swapnil M. Shah, Georgia Institute of Technology
- Sora H. Friedman, School for International Training Graduate Institute
- Ardeen Top, Campbellsville University-Louisville
- Prasanna Jayakumar, Florida International University
- John Crow, University of Arizona
- Chris Strunk, Augustana College
- Jessica Smith Bobadilla, San Joaquin College of Law
- Mary Ann Tesoroni, Ramapo College
- Jessica Feinberg, Mercer University
- Guillermo Yrizar-Barbosa, City University of New York
- William Hanna, University of Maryland
- Jerry D. Campbell, Claremont Lincoln University
- Jennifer Rotman, Lewis & Clark Law School
- Kenneth Barger, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis
- Michelle V Rowley, University of Maryland
- Rebekah B. Rodriguez, South Texas College of Law
- Linda Allegro, Oklahoma State University
- Bob Bussel, University of Oregon
- John Willshire Carrera, Harvard University
- Margaret McCormick, Loyola University
- Ryan Allen, University of Minnesota
- Laura F. Bachman, University of Tulsa
- Amy Weismann, University of Iowa
- Sarah Faville, University of Colorado
- David T. Ritchie, Mercer University
- Ronald W. Luna, University of Maryland at College Park
- Alicia Re Cruz, University of North Texas
- Alonso Reyna Rivarola, University of Utah
- Careen Shannon, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law
- Randy Ontiveros, University of Maryland
- Scott Titshaw, Mercer University
- Antonio Espinoza, Virginia Commonwealth University
- Avi Poster, University of Illinois
- David Robinson, Duke University
- Chris Rodgers, Creighton University
- Luis Fernando Restrepo, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville
- Shavit Yarden, The City University of New York
- Matthew I. Hirsch, Widener University School of Law
- Andrés Consoli, San Francisco State University
- Robert C. Milla, Chicago-Kent College of Law
- Alene Bryson, University of Arkansas
- Kate Aschenbrenner, Barry University
- Seamus Finn, Oblate School of Theology
- G. David Gearhart, University of Arkansas
- Lisa Melendez, Suffolk Community College
- Marjorie S. Zatz, Arizona State University
- GianCarlo Soto, Grand Rapids Community College
- Fred Bemak, George Mason University
- Emily Crawford, University of Missouri-Columbia
- Ilana Etkin Greenstein, Northeastern University
- Moneque Walker-Pickett, Saint Leo University
- Bill Schwab, University of Arkansas
- Roxanne Lynn Doty, Arizona State University
- Marta Maria Maldonado, Iowa State University
- Lauris Wren, Hofstra Law School
- Allert Brown-Gort, University of Notre Dame
- Ron Gleason, Faulconer Scholarship Program
- Kenneth A. Mayeaux, Louisiana State University
- Walter H. Ruehle, Cornell Law School
- Dedriah Collin, Ephesus Baptist Bible College
- Troy James Perdue, East Tennessee State University
- Ellen Weber, University of Denver
- Allan Wernick, Baruch College
- Dowell Myers, University of Southern California
- Hany S. Brollesy, Fairleigh Dickinson University
- Katie Christophersen, University of St. Thomas
- Harriett Romo, The University of Texas San Antonio
- Michael Indergaard, St. John's University
- Yung-Wei Lin, University of Maine
- Rebecca Hamlin, Grinnell College
- Deborah M. Weissman, University of North Carolina
- Tanya L. Domi, Columbia University
- William P. Kelly, City University New York
- Louise Antony, University of Massachusetts Amherst
- Mari Castaneda, University of Massachusetts Amherst
- Kimberly A. Hart, Northern Illinois University
- Sarah Blalock, University of North Texas
- Jose E. Hernandez, University of North Carolina Wilmington
- Gloria Aquino Sosa, Saint Mary's College
- Judith A Ryder, St John's University
- David Hernandez, Mount Holyoke College
- Robert P. Marlin, Harvard University
- Sherry Dorris, Clemson University
- Kasie C. Reyes, Old Dominion University
- Linda Carroll, Santa Rosa Junior College
- Cristina Brinkerhoff, University of Massachusetts Boston
- Thomas Chen, Tufts University
- Lilian Chavez, Arizona State University
- Rajiv Ramnath, The Ohio State University
- Paul Gorski, George Mason University
- Philip Kretsedemas, University of Massachusetts-Boston
- Yue Zhuo, St. John's University
- Gabriel Lomas, Western Connecticut State University
- Sancha Medwinter, Duke University
- P. Zitlali Morales, University of Illinois at Chicago
- EJ Sampsn-Boyarin, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
- Xochitl Castaneda, University of California, Berkeley
- Guillermo Cantor, Georgetown University
- Necip Berme, The Ohio State University
- Roberta Villalon, St. John's University
- Karen Tejada, University of Hartford
- Marcus Hammack, Purdue University
- Alberto Castillo, The University of Texas-Pan American
- Lynn Marcus, University of Arizona
- Erin O'Meara, University of Massachusetts Amherst
- Sharon Winslow, Purdue University
- John Mollenkopf, City University of New York
- Joe Potts, Purdue University
- Kimberlee Ratliff, American Public University System
- Violeta Raquel Chapin, University of Colorado Law School
- Jill Esbenshade, San Diego State University
- Jose Villalba, Wake Forest University
- David Forbes, Brooklyn College
- Jo Hittner, Winona State University
- Amy Lutz, Syracuse University
- Clare Merlin, College of William & Mary
- Cassandra A. Storlie, Kent State University
- Ming Hsu Chen, University of Colorado
- Anthony Vital, Transylvania University
- Katy Swalwell, George Mason University
- Amy Carroll, George Mason University
- Susannah Coaston, Northern Kentucky University
- Esther V. John, Seattle Central Community College
- Samantha Spinney, George Mason University
- Kristien Zenkov, George Mason University
- Rachael Goodman, George Mason University
- Diane Ward, University of California, Los Angeles
- Libby M. Grammer, University of Virginia
- Ramon R. Collazo, North Carolina State University
- Jill E. Family, Widener University
- Laura M. Gonzalez, University of North Carolina at Greensboro
- Jerome Krase, Brooklyn College
- Tiffany Joseph, Harvard University
- Antonio Polo, DePaul University
- James Frank Smith, University of California, Davis
- Daniel Kanstroom, Boston College
- Margaret Abraham, Hofstra University
- David Jenkins, Emory University
- Charles Nieman, University of Pittsburgh
- Joe Costanzo, George Mason University
- Anne M. Wiley, Greenfield Community College
- Patricia F. First, Clemson University
- Richard Milligan, University of Georgia
- Karen Musalo, University of California, Hastings
- Michael Gould-Wartofsky, New York University
- Miriam Nunez, University of California, Los Angeles
- Hernan Ramirez, Florida State University
- Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo, University of Southern California
- Paul McDaniel, Immigration Policy Center
- Jennifer Sloan, City University of New York
- Catherine Fisk, University of California, Irvine
- Renee Domeier, College of St. Benedict/St. John's University
- David Bensman, Rutgers University
- Dan Selter, Transylvania University
- Norma Stoltz Chinchilla, California State University Long Beach
- David C. Koelsch, University of Detroit Mercy
- Ana Hontanilla, University of North Carolina at Greensboro
- Tatyana Kleyn, The City College of New York
- Karina Sternin, North Seattle Community College
- Lisa Gring-Pemble, George Mason University
- Gloria Vaquera, John Carroll University
- Maria DeGuzman, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- Jacqueline Leavitt, University of California, Los Angeles
- Milena Hurtado, Fayetteville State University
- John Martinez, Seattle Central Community College
- Martha Gehringer, Transylvania University
- Claudia Cabello, University of North Carolina, Greensboro
- Ariana Valle, University of California, Los Angeles
- Fernando Lozano, Pomona College
- Miriam Feldblum, Pomona College
- David Gerber, University at Buffalo
- Miliann Kang, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
- Patrick Van Inwegen, Whitworth University
- Louisa Holmes, University of Southern California
- Heather Mauney, Florida State University
- Eva Serrano, Aurora University
- Geraldo Cadava, Northwestern University
- Eric Jones, University of North Carolina at Greensboro
- Juan Quevedo, California State University, Northridge
- Karen A. Woodrow-Lafield, University of Maryland, College Park
- James Paxton, Moravian College
- Nancy Plankey-Videla, Texas A&M University
- Brent White, University of Arizona
- Heikki Lempa, Moravian College
- Dennis Conway, Indiana University
- Dina C. Castro, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- Cristina Ioana Dragomir, State University of New York
- Leonie J. Brooks, Towson University
- F. Daniel Siciliano, Stanford University
- Lynn Stephen, University of Oregon
- Susan Roll, California State University, Chico
- Michael Malahy Morris, University of New Mexico
- Cathy Lisa Schneider, American University
- James M. Bergquist, Villanova University
- Michelle Wenk, University of Southern California
- Carol Schmid, Guilford Technical Community College
- Sharlene Simon, North Carolina State University
- Sandra Aguilar, Moravian College
- Anita Waters, Denison University
- Bascom Guffin, University of California, Davis
- Ed Williams, University of Arizona
- Rachel Settlage, Wayne State University
- Susan Eaton, Harvard University
- Gary Deaton, Transylvania University
- Jack Furlong, Transylvania University
- Kathryn A. Lee, Whitworth University
- Alan Hyde, Rutgers University
- Stephen Yale-Loehr, Cornell University
- Valerie Francisco, University of Portland
- Syed H. Imam, Hamdard University
- Brian L. Rich, Transylvania University
- Carolina Sternberg, DePaul University
- Jeanette E. Sherbondy, Washington College
- David Brundage, University of California, Santa Cruz
- Robin Catmur, University of Georgia
- Laura Murray-Tjan, Boston College
- Daniela Pila, University at Albany
- Patricia Gándara, University of California, Los Angeles
- Barbara Hines, University of Texas
- Valerie Stokes, Northwestern College
- Roger Velasquez, Duke University
- Bruce Cohen, Worcester State University
- Kent Wong, University of California, Los Angeles
- Enid Trucios-Haynes, University of Louisville
- Robin Burnette, Ohio University
- Francesca Degiuli, College of Staten Island
- Christina Borysthen-Tkacz, Boston University
- Tom Ancona, University of Chicago
- Elizabeth Fussell, Washington State University
- Julie Stewart, University of Utah
- Norma Fuentes-Mayorga, Princeton University
- Shana Alex Lavarreda, University of California, Los Angeles
- Marc Schenker, University of California at Davis
- Pamela K. Sertzen, Syracuse University
- Joanna Dreby, University at Albany
- Arlene Dallalfar, Lesley University
- Leisy Abrego, University of California, Los Angeles
- Ruben A. Lopez, Fullerton College
- Maureen A. Sweeney, University of Maryland
- Hilton Cordoba, Florida Atlantic University
- Karthick Ramakrishnan, University of California, Riverside
- Tanya Nieri, University of California, Riverside
- Elizabeth G. Kennedy, University of California, Santa Barbara and San Diego State University
- Nik Heynen, University of Georgia
- Marion Coddou, Stanford University
- Peter Kivisto, Augustana College
- Theo J. Majka, University of Dayton
- Nancy Foner, City University of New York
- Mehdi Bozorgmehr, City University of New York
- Cornelia Butler Flora, Iowa State University
- Maryann Bylander, University of London
- Julia Gelatt, Princeton University
- Paul Wallace, University of Missouri-Columbia
- Mike Amezcua, Northwestern University
- Carina Bandhauer, Western Connecticut State University
- Laura Enriquez, University of California, Los Angeles
- Pat Rubio Goldsmith, Texas A&M University
- Elizabeth Aranda, University of South Florida
- Hugo Ceron-Anaya, Lehigh University
- Emilio A. Parrado, The University of Pennsylvania
- Stephanie A. Bohon, University of Tennessee
- Jennifer Wyse, Virginia Tech
- Michael A. Rodriguez, University of California, Los Angeles
- Walter Ewing, Immigration Policy Center
- Steven P. Wallace, University of California, Los Angeles
- Katie Dingeman-Cerda, University of California, Irvine
- Elvia Ramirez, California State University, Sacramento
- Marc R. Settembrino, University of Central Florida
- Stephen Ruszczyk, City University of New York
- Hector Carrillo, Northwestern University
- Lisa M. Martinez, University of Denver
- Sonia P. Bettez, University of New Mexico
- Miren Uriarte, University of Massachusetts Boston
- Saskia Sassen, Columbia University
- Kimberly Mahaffy, Millersville University
- Silvia Pedraza, University of Michigan
- Mark Dawson, Texas A&M University
- Tamar Diana Wilson, University of Missouri, St. Louis
- David Cook-Martín, Grinnell College
- José A. Muñoz, California State University San Bernardino
- Daniel Olmos, California State University Channel Islands
- Veronica Montes, University of California, Santa Barbara
- William J. Haller, Clemson University
- Shawna Avila, Florida International University
- Ariela Schachter, Stanford University
- Barbara D. Riess, Allegheny College
- Catherine Ceniza Choy, University of California Berkeley
- Shannan Mattiace, Allegheny College
- Carmen Martinez-Calderon, University of California Berkeley
- Lydia Mihelic Pulsipher, University of Tennessee
- Altha J. Cravey, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- Christine Trost, University of California at Berkeley
- Robin Datel, California State University Sacramento
- Ron Hayduk, Queens College
- Roberto Cortez Gonzalez, University of Texas at El Paso
- Cybelle Fox, University of California Berkeley
- Doris Marie Provine, Arizona State University
- Willow Mata, University of California Berkeley
- Kathleen Coll, Stanford University
- Nora Hamilton, University of Southern California
- Patricia Seo, Stanford University
- Rubén Martinez, Michigan State University
- Whalen Dillon, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
- Dawn M. Richardson, Portland State University
- Elizabeth Falconi, Wellesley College
- Tanya Golash-Boza, University of California, Merced
- Esther Cho, University of California Berkeley
- Elizabeth Shockey, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
- Robert Eric Barde, University of California, Berkeley
- Mina Barahimi, University of California, Berkeley
- Shannon Gleeson, University of California, Santa Cruz
- Sarah Song, University of California, Berkeley
- Michael Danielson, American University
- John G. Bretting, University of Texas at El Paso
- Ronald Schmidt, Davidson College
- Denise Gilman, University of Texas
- Maria C Figueroa, Cornell University
- Elizabeth Cantu, Arizona State University
- Martin R. Arford, Saginaw Valley State University
- César Cuauhtémoc García Hernández, Capital University Law School
- Lisa Melendez, Suffolk County Community College
- Mary Brigid Gregory, Saint Catharine College
- Amy Davidow, New Jersey Medical School
- Patricia M. Juarez, University of Texas at El Paso
- David D. Long, University of Wisconsin
- Mark Lisk, University of Texas at El Paso
- Zulaika Quintero, University of Florida
- Jeff Popke, East Carolina University
- David G. Anderson, John Carroll University
- Hiromi Ishizawa, George Washington University
- Jill Tiefenthaler, Colorado College
- Eric Sheppard, University of California, Los Angeles
- Eva M. Moya, University of Texas at El Paso
- Vincent H. Melomo, William Peace University
- Mark Noferi, Brooklyn Law School
- Kathleen Staudt, University of Texas at El Paso
- Robert J Kolesar, John Carroll University
- Ian Condry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Chris Zepeda-Millan, Loyola Marymount University
- Sallie M. Ives, University of North Carolina in Charlotte
- Maceo Crenshaw Dailey, Jr., University of Texas at El Paso
- Dennis Bixler-Márquez, University of Texas at El Paso
- Aurelia Lorena Murga, University of Texas at El Paso
- Eric J. Fournier, Samford University
- Shoba Sivaprasad Wadhia, Pennsylvania State University
- Joan T. Wynne, Florida International University
- Eric Popkin, Colorado College
- Monica W. Varsanyi, City University of New York
- Lisa M. Dorner, University of Missouri
- Erasmo Gamboa, University of Washington
- Gloria Marvic García, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
- Janice Fine, Rutgers University
- Laura Roselle, Elon University
- Luis H. Zayas, University of Texas
- Cynthia Williams Barnett, Murray State University
- Ernesto Castañeda, University of Texas El Paso
- Aurolyn Luykx, University of Texas at El Paso
- Tom I. Romero, University of Denver
- Susanne Jonas, University of California, Santa Cruz
- Josiah Heyman, University of Texas at El Paso
- Erika M. Sutherland, Muhlenberg College
- Donna R. Gabaccia, University of Minnesota
- Anthony Polanco, University of Texas at Arlington
- Anna Ochoa O'Leary, University of Arizona
- Rosalee Gonzalez, Arizona State University
- Debra J. Bolton, Kansas State University
- Judith Brady, Fordham University
- Bill Ong Hing, University of San Francisco
- Donald C. Hubin, The Ohio State University
- Dave Colnic, California State University, Stanislaus
- Megan Walsh, University of the Pacific
- Patrick Henry Smith, The University of Texas at El Paso
- Marie D Price, George Washington University
- Alejandro Morales, University of Missouri
- Nancy Newton, Montgomery College
- Edward M. Olivos, University of Oregon
- Sarah Rogerson, Albany Law School
- Katherine Fennelly, University of Minnesota
- Rose Marie McKain, ECPI University
- Mary C. Waters, Harvard University
- Rika Gorn, New York University
- Jennifer Jones, University of Notre Dame
- Amalia Pallares, University of Illinois at Chicago
- Meredith Cummings, University of Alabama
- Susanne Jonas, University of California, Santa Cruz
- Holly Cooper , University of California, Davis
- Deborah M. Weissman, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- Philip Kasinitz, City University of New York
- Robert Courtney Smith, Baruch College
- Tomás R. Jiménez, Stanford University
- Cecilia Menjivar, Arizona State University
- David Landry, University of Louisiana at Lafayette
- Dustin W. Dyer, South University
- Peggy Bristol-Wright, Contra Costa College and Humphrey's College of Law
- Laura F. Bachman, University of Tulsa
- Jonathan Benson, S.J. Quinney College of Law
- Sarah Morando, University of California, Los Angeles
- Susan Ewing, George Washington University
- Gretchen McDaniel, Samford University
- Joshua L. Bearden, Gadsden State Community College
- Kim Nguyen, University of Chicago
- Megan Klein Hattori, University of Massachusetts Boston
- John Scott, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- Chang Won Lee, University of Maryland
- Genevieve Negrón-Gonzales, University of California, Berkeley