Migrant Students Return to Communities with Lessons

More than a dozen migrant farmworkers' sons and daughters -- now UC Davis students -- will spend their mornings teaching in Sacramento-area classrooms and their afternoons tutoring in migrant camps this summer, after having assisted this spring in K-12 classrooms. They aim to provide supplemental educational services to students from preschool to the 12th grade and to help migrant communities. The UC Davis students involved are part of the California Mini-Corps, a program funded jointly by UC Davis and state migrant funds. To teach in the program, UC Davis students must be former migrants, interested in teaching as a profession, and bilingual in Spanish, Portuguese, Tagalog or Punjabi, among other requirements. A few of the college students will teach about health issues and drug prevention as well as career awareness and the importance of a college education.