A professor from Louisiana Tech University tweeted that every public figure should be accosted for what he views as fascism.&nbsp;<a href="https://andrewcmckevitt.com/">Drew McKevitt</a>, an associate professor of History at LA Tech, <a href="https://twitter.com/drewmckevitt/status/1419480804028203009?s=21">replied</a> to a tweet about a person confronting Fox News host Tucker Carlson at a store, signaling that he deserved to be accosted.<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=17862">[RELATED: &#39;The time has come for &#39;gaytheism&#39;:&#39; library promotes radical, anti-Christian books]</a>&ldquo;For the record *every* public figure should be accosted when their &#39;political persuasion&#39; is fascism,&quot; McKevitt said.<blockquote>For the record *every* public figure should be accosted when their &quot;political persuasion&quot; is fascism <a href="https://t.co/yR58lZ8OJa">https://t.co/yR58lZ8OJa</a>&mdash; Drew McKevitt (@drewmckevitt) <a href="https://twitter.com/drewmckevitt/status/1419480804028203009?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 26, 2021</a></blockquote>McKevitt declined to tell Campus Reform whom else he considers a fascist.On July 20, McKevitt, in a since-deleted tweet said&nbsp;&quot;Where do I donate to Rand Paul&#39;s neighbor&#39;s senate campaign,&quot; according to <a href="https://townhall.com/tipsheet/rebeccadowns/2021/07/21/la-tech-professor-tweets-support-for-rand-pauls-neighbor-n2592919">Townhall</a>.Rand Paul&#39;s neighbor, Rene Boucher, was found guilty of assaulting Sen. Paul in 2017, who suffered broken ribs from the incident. The senator also said that he had pneumonia several times after the incident, and had to have a hernia surgery, according to <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/rand-paul-attacker-sentenced-additional-prison-time-over-yard-assault-n1235013">NBC News</a>.<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=17832">[RELATED: &#39;You may have oppressed somebody:&#39; Prof to White student who said he left his house that day]</a>After deleting the tweet, McKevitt&nbsp;<a href="https://twitter.com/drewmckevitt/status/1418192929261297673">said</a>&nbsp;that the tweet was a &quot;Joke.&quot;<blockquote>Oh there it is! A whole article from one Rand Paul joke? I&#39;ve outdone myself for sure! <a href="https://t.co/Utxf3ILgcf">https://t.co/Utxf3ILgcf</a>&mdash; Drew McKevitt (@drewmckevitt) <a href="https://twitter.com/drewmckevitt/status/1418192929261297673?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 22, 2021</a></blockquote>Campus Reform reached out to LA Tech for comment and the article will be updated accordingly.&nbsp;Follow the author of this article on Twitter:&nbsp;<a href="https://twitter.com/ajmunguia23">@ajmunguia23</a>

A professor at Louisiana Tech tweeted that 'public figure should be accosted when their 'political persuasion' is fascism.'

Prof supports accosting public figures

Emails obtained by Campus Reform show a University of North Carolina dean telling an ABC News reporter to &quot;protect&quot; Nikole Hannah-Jones during her ongoing battle for tenure.&nbsp;In late May, ABC Deputy Political Director <a href="https://www.msn.com/en-us/tv/news/averi-harper-named-deputy-political-director-at-abc-news/ar-BB1efpMi">Averi Harper</a> emailed UNC Journalism and Media Dean <a href="http://hussman.unc.edu/directory/faculty/susan-king">Susan King</a> to ask why Hannah-Jones had not been granted tenure. King told her that the Board of Trustees had declined to consider Hannah-Jones&#39; application package, adding:&quot;Protect Nikole. She deserves it and I&#39;m doing all I can to make this right. We really want her here.&quot;<a href="https://campusreform.org/article?id=17529">[RELATED: EXCLUSIVE: Nikole Hannah-Jones UNC offer letter lists $180,000 yearly salary]</a>Hannah-Jones, author of the &quot;1619 Project&quot; and sought-after college guest speaker, was being considered for a tenured position despite having never taught a college course.&nbsp;<img src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/campus.reform//17917sja8tsScreenshot.png" class="fr-fic fr-dii">King told Harper, &quot;She deserves tenure. Her package is perhaps the best I&#39;ve ever seen.&quot;&nbsp;<a href="https://campusreform.org/article?id=17748">[RELATED: UNC Board of Trustees grants tenure to Nikole Hannah-Jones]</a>Though UNC&#39;s Board of Trustees voted on June 30 to grant tenure, Hannah-Jones <a href="https://campusreform.org/article?id=17768">turned them down</a> and instead accepted a professorship at Howard University, her alma mater.&nbsp;Averi Harper is an alumna of the UNC Hussman School of Journalism and Media.Campus Reform reached out to both Averi Harper and Dean Susan King for comment. This article will be updated accordingly.&nbsp;Follow the author of this article on Twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/AngelaLMorabito">@AngelaLMorabito</a>

'Campus Reform' previously covered UNC's offer of tenure and Hannah-Jones' subsequent refusal of the offer. 

'Protect Nikole': Emails reveal UNC dean asked ABC News for favorable Nikole Hannah-Jones coverage. 

Approximately 80% of Americans oppose late-term abortion, according to a recent University of Chicago survey.&nbsp;In June, researchers at the Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs, which is affiliated with the university,&nbsp;<a href="https://apnorc.org/projects/public-holds-nuanced-views-about-access-to-legal-abortion/">found</a>&nbsp;that 65% oppose abortions in the second trimester and 38% believe abortions should be illegal in the first trimester.&nbsp;Most respondents that support abortion in the second and third trimester identified as Democrat or independent. Additionally, many should be legal in extraneous cases, such as a danger to the mother&rsquo;s health (87%), rape (84%), or serious illness of the fetus (74%).In June, researchers surveyed 1,125 adults from the NORC probability-based panel, which the researchers designed to reflect the diversity of the American population.About half of participants said that it should not be possible to get an abortion in cases where a woman simply does not want to be pregnant.<a href="https://campusreform.org/article?id=17875">[RELATED: Smith College professor wants public universities to provide on-campus abortion pills]</a>Abortion is a hot topic in higher education right now, as professors and universities continuously get more interested in abortion rights on campus.At Smith College, for example, one professor claims that the University&rsquo;s health center should provide abortion pills to students, claiming &ldquo;forcing&rdquo; the students to leave campus for these services is unfair.Last year, several hundred professors and doctors requested that the FDA allow abortion pills to be sent through the mail.&nbsp;<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=17847">[RELATED: Archbishop opposes Biden visit to Catholic university]</a>Last week, Archbishop Dennis M. Schnurr, who presides over the Archdiocese of Cincinnati, opposed President Biden&#39;s visit to Mount St. Joseph University, a Catholic institution.&nbsp;Local pro-life activists and Catholics joined Archbishop Schnurr in denouncing Biden&#39;s trip due to the president&#39;s pro-choice policies.&nbsp;Campus Reform has reached out to the University of Chicago but did not receive a response in time for publication.

About 50% of respondents said they do not support abortion being used as a form of birth control. 

Nearly all Americans oppose late-term abortion, UC survey finds 

California&rsquo;s 2021-2022 <a href="http://www.ebudget.ca.gov/2021-22/pdf/Enacted/BudgetSummary/HigherEducation.pdf">budget</a> includes &ldquo;increase of $5.6 million&quot; for &quot;systemwide anti-racism initiatives,&quot; which will fund last year&#39;s ethnic studies mandate.&nbsp;Democratic Governor Gavin Newson signed the bill on July 16. Its multi-million-dollar appropriation for &quot;anti-racist&quot; activities adds provides the resources necessary to enforce the requirement that undergraduate students take an ethnic studies course.&nbsp;In August 2020, Newsom signed <a href="https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB1460">Assembly Bill 1460</a>, which makes one course in ethnic studies a graduation requirement for all baccalaureate candidates at a California state-funded colleges.<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=17818">[RELATED: No diploma for CA students not versed in &#39;ethnic studies&#39;]</a>&quot;Commencing with students graduating in the 2024&ndash;25 academic year, the California State University shall require, as an undergraduate graduation requirement, the completion of, at minimum, one three-unit course in ethnic studies,&quot; the 2020 bill states.California state universities are working with the California State University Council on Ethnic Studies and Academic Senate of the California State University to <a href="https://www2.calstate.edu/impact-of-the-csu/diversity/advancement-of-ethnic-studies">develop</a> the &ldquo;core competencies&rdquo; that will be met by students taking ethnic studies courses.<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=17788">[RELATED: Updated CSU course requirement replaces focus on &#39;global awareness&#39; with &#39;equity and inclusion&#39;]</a>The California State University Council on Ethnic Studies is a <a href="https://ethnicstudies.sfsu.edu/council">self-described&nbsp;</a>council focused on being a &ldquo;Collaborative forum for addressing the varied needs on each campus &ndash; both those with fully established departments as well as those in the process of developing new ethnic studies programs and curricula.&rdquo;The California State University Council on Ethnic Studies or the Academic Senate of the California State University did not respond to requests for comment from Campus Reform.

The money will fund the implementation of a 2020 law  requiring all undergraduate students at public four-year institutions to take an ethnic studies course. 

Ethnic studies, 'anti-racist initiatives' cost CA taxpayers over $5 million

Indiana University recently committed student fee money to the creation of a massive mural on the school&#39;s main campus.&nbsp;The mural, unveiled July 8, was painted on one of the most trafficked streets on IU&rsquo;s campus, Jordan Avenue, and simply reads &ldquo;Black Lives Matter,&rdquo; as <a href="https://crimsonpostiu.com/student-fees-used-pay-massive-blm-mural/">reported</a> by The Crimson Post.The project was conceived by Joa&rsquo;Quinn Griffin when he was a member of the IU Student Government Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion committee during the previous IUSG presidential administration. Initially, Griffin, who now leads the DEI committee under the new administration, wanted to pursue the project in partnership with the student government.<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=16205">[RELATED: UMass-Boston hosts inaugural &lsquo;Black Lives Matter Day,&rsquo; unveils BLM mural]</a>Griffin then partnered with a group at IU referred to as <a href="https://www.blackcollegians.com/">Black Collegians</a>, which is led by IU Tiera Howleit. Together they brought a project proposal before the IU Funding Board, an organization tasked with distributing student fees to groups on campus.&nbsp;According to a student who wishes to remain anonymous, the board approved the proposal, allotting student fees to commission three professional artists to design the mural and to pay for paint and other required supplies.&nbsp;Notably, a number of other BLM displays were already present at IU, including a large flag outside the student union and multiple exhibits within the union. When asked why his project was necessary given these other showings of support for BLM on campus, Griffin told The Crimson Post that he didn&rsquo;t feel the other displays were visible or substantial enough.&nbsp;<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=16559">[RELATED: DC faces First Amendment lawsuit after allowing BLM mural, but not students&#39; pro-life mural]</a>Although it only references Black Americans, both Griffin and <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/CQ_6XC9lV5I/">Black Collegians</a> branded the mural as &ldquo;<a href="https://twitter.com/BCollegians/status/1412810983467257857">all inclusive</a>.&rdquo; Additionally, despite the controversial and divisive nature of the Black Lives Matter name, as well as the recent controversies surrounding the organization, including their recent <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/CRU5kYYp-UU/">statements</a> of support for the communist regime in Cuba and founder Patrisse Cullors&rsquo; <a href="https://nypost.com/2021/04/10/inside-blm-co-founder-patrisse-khan-cullors-real-estate-buying-binge/">multi-million dollar real estate dealings</a>, Griffin told The Crimson Post that he stands by his decision to use the money for the mural and hopes to work on similar projects across the country.<blockquote>For the past year, our President and Founder <a href="https://twitter.com/officialtiera?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@officialtiera</a> co-lead an initiative with <a href="https://twitter.com/joa_quinng?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@joa_quinng</a> to create an all inclusive mural at Indiana University. The mural is now complete, please stop by to check it out!! Thank you to everyone involved! ✊🏾<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/blacklivesmatter?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#blacklivesmatter</a> <a href="https://t.co/NoMDDi80xw">pic.twitter.com/NoMDDi80xw</a>&mdash; Black Collegians (@BCollegians) <a href="https://twitter.com/BCollegians/status/1412810983467257857?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 7, 2021</a></blockquote>While Indiana University <a href="https://twitter.com/IUBloomington/status/1413219770896457728">praised</a> the project, thanking &ldquo;the Black Collegians group for bringing this mural to life on our campus,&rdquo; some students weren&rsquo;t as ecstatic.<blockquote>Black Lives Matter. Thank you to the Black Collegians group for bringing this mural to life on our campus. <a href="https://t.co/jzHQnOTxJm">pic.twitter.com/jzHQnOTxJm</a>&mdash; IU Bloomington (@IUBloomington) <a href="https://twitter.com/IUBloomington/status/1413219770896457728?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 8, 2021</a></blockquote>Shelby Fugate, the events coordinator for IU&rsquo;s Turning Point USA chapter, told&nbsp;Campus Reform that she feels using student fees to fund the project was &ldquo;wrong.&rdquo;&ldquo;I think it&rsquo;s incredibly wrong that the campus is using student funds to paint political messages throughout the university. We all know BLM, the organization is a socialist group,...they state this on their website. Indiana University supporting this and using student fees as funding is a significant problem.&rdquo;Fugate continued, &ldquo;Indiana University needs to worry about the education their students are receiving and less about politics and indoctrinating students.&rdquo;<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=15326">[RELATED: University earmarks $1 million for COVID-19 hardships of &lsquo;Black and Hispanic&#39; students]</a>The campus&rsquo;s Young Americans for Freedom chapter told Campus Reform that YAF &ldquo;opposes the use of student fees for the BLM mural on Jordan, particularly at a time when tuition rates are rising even during a global pandemic.&rdquo;&ldquo;Indiana University should instead focus on making the institution more accessible and keeping tuition rates low to show that they truly believe what this mural should demonstrate. Instead, it aligns them with an avowedly Marxist organization and the left-wing mob and does nothing to help people of any race on campus,&rdquo; the chapter concluded.Campus Reform reached out to Indiana University and the mural&rsquo;s creators; this article will be updated accordingly.

The university subsequently praised the street mural on its official social media. 

IU uses student fees to paint BLM mural 


Northern Illinois University reversed course on its COVID-19 vaccine mandate in June, &nbsp;after the school asserted in May that it would not impose a mandate.In February, <a href="https://www.niu.edu/clas/polisci/about/faculty-staff/streb.shtml">Matthew Streb</a>, chief of staff to Northern Illinois University President Lisa Freeman, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BdTLlohx8os&t=">informed</a> students during a <a href="https://northernstar.info/83738/news/university-health-department-answer-covid-19-vaccine-questions/">panel</a> event that the school lacked legal authority to enforce a vaccine mandate as long as the shots remained under emergency use authorization. According to an archived version of the school&rsquo;s COVID-19 vaccine webpage, which was live as late as May 31, Northern Illinois University <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20210531154208/https://www.niu.edu/protecting-the-pack/health/vaccine/index.shtml">affirmed</a> that it &ldquo;cannot require&rdquo; students to get the shot.<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=17839">[RELATED: WATCH: Citing diversity, BYU denies vaccine exemption for student with rare syndrome]</a>On June 23, however, the university <a href="https://www.niu.edu/protecting-the-pack/communication/messaging/6-23-21-important-vaccine-requirement-information-students.html">announced</a> that it would require all students to receive vaccinations; it also opened exemptions for documented health or religious reasons. According to the school&rsquo;s current COVID-19 <a href="https://www.niu.edu/protecting-the-pack/health/vaccine-student/index.shtml">webpage</a>, exemptions will only apply &ldquo;until vaccines transition from emergency use authorization status to full approval by the Food and Drug Administration.&rdquo;Daniel Nuccio, a doctoral student at the university, spoke with&nbsp;Campus Reform over concerns that students &ldquo;will have to choose between vaccination and losing whatever time and money they have invested into their college education.&rdquo;Nuccio holds master&rsquo;s degrees in psychology and biology from Illinois State University and Northern Illinois University, respectively. He has previously completed &ldquo;neurophysiology, microbiology, and computational biology projects,&rdquo; making him &ldquo;uniquely qualified to serve as the lead graduate student on a collaboration between a microbial pathogen lab in [his] department and a behavioral neuroscience lab in the psychology department.&rdquo;Any future accomplishments, however, may be limited by Northern Illinois University&rsquo;s vaccine policy.&ldquo;For a period of time, I actually came to take some pride in being able to be involved on this kind of project,&rdquo; he told Campus Reform. &ldquo;But following NIU&rsquo;s vaccine mandate, I have come to realize that I will soon have to step back and assume a lesser role on this project or move on to an unrelated one assuming I am allowed to remain in my program at all.&rdquo;&nbsp;<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=17842">[RELATED: CSU squeezes in vaccine mandate before new state law takes effect]</a>If not allowed to continue with the doctoral program, &ldquo;it would be very unlikely that I will be able to operate my own lab at a university in the future given that having a PhD is usually one of the minimum requirements for doing so,&quot; he said.&nbsp;Other students share Nuccio&rsquo;s concerns.Nuccio &nbsp;explained, &ldquo;Their reasons range from having natural immunity after recovering from natural infection, to concerns about the long-term effects of the COVID vaccines, to concerns about having to relinquish a certain amount of bodily and medical autonomy to the university.&rdquo;&ldquo;Within my department, however, I feel there is an immense social pressure to not question or disobey public health guidelines or the science they&rsquo;re supposedly based on,&rdquo; Nuccio continued. &ldquo;Before vaccines were widely available, I heard stories of students being publicly or privately castigated by professors for acknowledging they&rsquo;d frequented bars or coffee shops. Since they&rsquo;ve become available, I&rsquo;ve heard stories of professors scolding students for being reluctant to get vaccinated. I know students personally who think it&rsquo;s unconscionable to turn down a COVID vaccine.&rdquo;<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=17846">[RELATED: CDC, universities are paying students to be vaccine influencers]</a>&ldquo;Overall at this point, I get the impression there just seems to be this assumption that everyone will get their jabs. That being said, I also know students in my department who largely disagree with our school&rsquo;s policies on COVID in general or the vaccine mandate specifically, but remain silent either because of social pressure or because they don&rsquo;t want to be seen being insensitive or causing trouble, especially if they&rsquo;re close to finishing their degree.&rdquo;Nuccio observed that beyond Northern Illinois University, there is &ldquo;little tolerance in our society&rdquo; over individual medical choices related to COVID-19.&ldquo;From a PR or legal standpoint, mandates also give universities some cover in the event of an outbreak,&rdquo; he described. &ldquo;Yet, at least early on, many were uncertain whether they had the legal authority to mandate COVID vaccines given their EUA status, and wanted some kind of cover for that too before moving ahead with mandates.&rdquo;&ldquo;Over the last several months, the growing number of major universities mandating COVID vaccination, along with the failure of initial legal challenges to mandates, gave the universities the cover they were looking for.&rdquo;Campus Reform reached out to Northern Illinois University for comment; this article will be updated accordingly.

The student described prevalent intolerance among faculty for those individuals not wishing to be vaccinated. 

EXCLUSIVE: Vaccine policy switch may put doctoral student's future in jeopardy

Campus Reform Campus Profiles evaluate individual American college campuses based on liberal bias, speech codes, and other relevant policies and factors.University of Nevada Reno is a public university within the Nevada System of Higher Education. Around 17,000 undergraduate students are enrolled at the university. Official Political Student Organizations: <img src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/campus.reform//17869jinaagNevadaReno.jpg" class="fr-fic fr-dii"> Conservative Organizations:&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;Turning Point USA&nbsp; Liberal Organizations:&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;Freedom Alliance of Culturally Empowered Students&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;Fused&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;Gender, Race, and Identity Club&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;Young Democrats of University of Nevada Reno&nbsp;OpenSecrets Data on University of Nevada Reno Employee Political Donations:In the 2020 election cycle, 94.6% of University of Nevada Reno employee donations went to Democratic candidates in federal elections, while 3.1% of donations went to Republican candidates in federal elections, according to data from<a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/university-of-nevada/totals?id=D000030676">&nbsp;OpenSecrets. <img src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/campus.reform//17869f4l75gNevadaReno.jpg" class="fr-fic fr-dii"></a>Foundation for Individual Rights in Education Rating:University of Nevada Reno has been given a<a href="https://www.thefire.org/schools/university-of-nevada-reno/">&nbsp;yellow light</a> speech code. According to FIRE, this is due to &ldquo;at least one university ambiguous policy that too easily encourages administrative abuse and arbitrary application.&rdquo; FIRE also notes that a yellow light policy at a public institution is unconstitutional.&nbsp;<img src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/campus.reform//17869jo8wd7.png" class="fr-fic fr-dii"> COVID-19:The University of Nevada, Reno is <a href="https://www.unr.edu/coronavirus/vaccine">NOT</a> requiring a COVID-19 vaccine mandate for students.&nbsp;Stories by Campus Reform about University of Nevada, Reno: <a href="https://campusreform.org/article?id=17244">&lsquo;Anti-racist journey&rsquo; prompts UNR lecturer to apologize for teaching &lsquo;Jingle Bells,&rsquo; &lsquo;Baa Baa Black Sheep&rsquo;</a>After discovering the tenets of what is referred to as &quot;anti-racism,&quot; one University of Nevada-Reno professor will stop teaching songs like &ldquo;Jingle Bells&rdquo; and &ldquo;Baa Baa Black Sheep.&rdquo;&nbsp; <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=17254&_gl=1*oybzw4*_ga*MjA5OTI4NTAwLjE2MjQ0Nzg0OTQ.*_ga_52173W50DL*MTYyNTMzMTk3MS4zLjEuMTYyNTMzMjMzMy42MA..">Students and alumni want statue of Colin Kaepernick on campus</a>Students and alumni want a statue of former NFL quarterback Colin Kapernick installed at the University of Nevada-Reno. <a href="https://campusreform.org/article?id=17685">Nevada university will not remove Gutzon Borglum&rsquo;s statue from its campus</a>As student activism fell flat from initial uproar in 2020, University of Nevada, Reno, decided not to remove a controversial statue connected to Mount Rushmore.

University of Nevada Reno is a public university within the Nevada System of Higher Education. Around 17,000 undergraduate students are enrolled at the university.

CAMPUS PROFILE: University of Nevada, Reno

Campus Reform Campus Profiles evaluate individual American college campuses based on liberal bias, speech codes, and other relevant policies and factors.James Madison University is a public university under the auspices of the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia. Around 21,000 undergraduate students are enrolled at the university. Official Political Student Organizations: <img src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/campus.reform//178714njtlqJMU.jpg" class="fr-fic fr-dii">Conservative Organizations:&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;College Republicans&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;Young Americans for Liberty&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;Turning Point USA at James Madison University Liberal Organizations:&nbsp;College DemocratsEnvironmental Club ManagementNextgen JMUPlanned Parenthood Generation Action at JMUShades of PrideYoung Democratic Socialists of America of James Madison UniversityNational Association for the Advancement of Colored People OpenSecrets Data on James Madison University Employee Political Donations:In the 2020 election cycle, 92.94% of James Madison University employee donations went to Democratic candidates in federal elections, while 7.06% of donations went to Republican candidates in federal elections, according to data from<a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/james-madison-university/recipients?id=D000070210">&nbsp;OpenSecrets.&nbsp;</a><img src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/campus.reform//17871apkc6.png" class="fr-fic fr-dii">Foundation for Individual Rights in Education Rating:James Madison University has been given a<a href="https://www.thefire.org/schools/james-madison-university/">&nbsp;yellow light</a> speech code. According to FIRE, this is due to &ldquo;at least one university ambiguous policy that too easily encourages administrative abuse and arbitrary application.&rdquo; FIRE also notes that a yellow light policy at a public institution is unconstitutional.&nbsp;<img src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/campus.reform//178715t0fqb.png" class="fr-fic fr-dii"> COVID-19:James Madison University is <a href="https://www.jmu.edu/stop-the-spread/healthcenter/covid-vaccine-faq.shtml#fall-2021-vaccination-requirement">requiring</a> a COVID-19 vaccine mandate for students.&nbsp;Stories by Campus Reform about James Madison University: <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=7064">A cappella group banned from singing Christian song at &lsquo;unity tree&rsquo; ceremony</a>Due to secularism, a Christian acapella group was denied their request to sing a religious song at the annual unity tree lighting.&nbsp; <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=10314">University bribing faculty to take &#39;inclusivity&#39; training</a>James Madison University bribed faculty members with a $250 stipend for participation in a semester-long inclusivity and diversity training course.&nbsp; <a href="https://campusreform.org/article?id=11333">JMU scholars assemble &lsquo;feminist scholarship&rsquo; fellowship</a>James Madison University is tasking recipients of a &quot;feminist scholarship&quot; fellowship with maintaining a &quot;feminist scholarship community.&quot; The university told applicants to &quot;briefly describe what you think makes scholarship feminist and how your project(s) fits that description.&quot;

James Madison University is a public university under the auspices of the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia. Around 21,000 undergraduate students are enrolled at the university.

CAMPUS PROFILE: James Madison University

In a <a href="https://www.ocpathink.org/uploads/assets/pdfs/2021-06-25-MTD-filed-by-Lindsey-Gray-Walton-and-Kyle-Walton.pdf">motion</a> to dismiss a lawsuit from former player Kylee McLaughlin, OU volleyball coaches argue in favor of policing speech, saying the former player&#39;s social media posts were &quot;detrimental to the team atmosphere.&quot;&ldquo;A player&rsquo;s speech that potentially disrupts, distracts from, or hurts &lsquo;team unity,&rsquo; &lsquo;sportsmanship,&rsquo; or the &lsquo;cohesiveness of the team,&rsquo; is subject to a coach&rsquo;s remedial action,&rdquo; the motion states.&nbsp;<a href="https://soonersports.com/sports/volleyball/roster/kylee-mclaughlin/14166">Kylee McLaughlin</a> has sued her coaches and university, alleging that she was kicked off the team because her coaches and teammates don&#39;t accept her conservative views. McLaughlin is suing &ldquo;for a minimum of $75,000 for each of five complaints, including an infringement on her First Amendment rights,&rdquo; says a <a href="https://tulsaworld.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/former-ou-volleyball-player-sues-over-exclusion-from-team-because-of-political-views/article_df4c4f04-c48d-11eb-9489-23b1831448e5.html">local news outlet</a>.&nbsp;In June 2020, McLaughlin commented with two emojis, a clown and skull and crossbones, on an ESPN Instagram post about the University of Texas possibly changing their fight song.This March, a University of Texas <a href="https://www.kvue.com/article/sports/ncaa/longhorns/eyes-of-texas-lyrics-song-controversy-history/269-667db797-b482-444b-82a5-bb8982e80f5e">inquiry&nbsp;</a>found no &quot;racist intent&quot; behind &quot;The Eyes of Texas,&quot; the school fight song at the center of the controversy.&nbsp;After complaints from team members, Head Coach <a href="https://soonersports.com/sports/general/roster/coaches/lindsey-gray-walton/33">Lindsey Walton</a>, one of the defendants in the suit, asked McLaughlin to evaluate her &ldquo;white allergies&rdquo; and &ldquo;privilege,&rdquo; and to delete the post. McLaughlin complied.&nbsp;<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=17668">[RELATED: Free speech for all? National trends show a one-sided story]</a>The next day, <a href="https://soonersports.com/sports/volleyball/roster/coaches/kyle-walton/525">Kyle Walton</a>, an assistant coach, spoke to McLaughlin about the comment.&nbsp;&ldquo;Not sure I can coach you anymore,&rdquo; he said.McLaughlin pointed out in her suit that many of the other players had previously posted controversial content, with no punishment.&ldquo;Plaintiff retorted that several other players (1) posted videos of them drinking in the locker room, (2) were caught cheating on tests, and (3) writing racial comments, all without sanction or reprimand,&rdquo; the suit states. &quot;Nonetheless, Plaintiff was told that she did not fit into the culture of the team and that her teammates could not trust her based on comments she made in the past and her ESPN post.&quot;McLaughlin&rsquo;s teammates continued to call her &ldquo;racist&rdquo; and &ldquo;homophobe,&rdquo; which led Coach Walton to &ldquo;believe that disrupted the cohesion of the team, which would undermine its ability to win,&rdquo; says the suit.In July 2020, Walton gave McLaughlin three options, <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Lora; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline !important; float: none;">all three requiring McLaughlin to cease competing on the OU volleyball team. One option was transferring to another school.<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=17787">[RELATED: OU prof responds to FIRE: Speech in classroom is &#39;different than freedom of speech&#39;]</a>McLaughlin chose to &ldquo;redshirt,&rdquo; but was required to complete DEI training. She has now <a href="https://olemisssports.com/news/2021/2/15/volleyball-adds-oklahoma-transfer-kylee-mclaughlin.aspx">transferred&nbsp;</a>to the University of Mississippi to finish her final year in athletics. &nbsp;In October, the university contacted McLaughlin about her DEI &ldquo;growth plan&rdquo; which included &ldquo;online trainings on classism, ableism, trans and homosexual negatives, and sexism.&rdquo;McLaughlin concluded from her interactions that she was kicked off the team for her political beliefs, since she considers herself &ldquo;a political conservative, and Christian who expresses her Christian faith through word and deed.&rdquo;In their motion, lawyers for the two coaches admit that she is correct, but that they cannot be held accountable since they have the power to punish players for their political beliefs.&nbsp;&ldquo;Coach Walton was within her rights to cultivate a winning &lsquo;team atmosphere&rsquo; by ensuring the players that &lsquo;trust&rsquo; each other would be on the court,&rdquo; the motion states.The University of Oklahoma did not respond to a request for comment before publication.

The student athlete, now at the University of Mississippi, had filed a suit for $375,000 total.

OU coaches assert right to police athletes' speech in student lawsuit 

Stanford University&rsquo;s &ldquo;Community Board on Public Safety&rdquo; released its first set of campus safety reform recommendations, which if enacted would limit the use of armed personnel to emergency situations.The board recently <a href="https://president.stanford.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2021/07/CBPS-Report-July-2021.pdf">suggested</a> that the university create &quot;two units&quot; of campus police officers, sworn police officers, and non-sworn police officers.Sworn police officers, as recommended by the report, would only respond be activated when a &quot;emergency response unit&quot; is needed, and would handle &quot;threats of violence, significant property damage on campus, calls for service for a felony (or other comparable situations).&quot;The sworn officers would also respond to situations where &quot;only a sworn officer is legally required to handle a situation.&quot;For &quot;all other situations,&quot; the board states that an &quot;enhanced cadre&quot; of non-sworn officers would act as the first responders, but will have sworn officers ready for &quot;back-up&quot; if needed.The body was officially sanctioned by Stanford&rsquo;s <a href="https://president.stanford.edu/university-governance/community-board-on-public-safety/">Office of the President</a> and announced following the death of George Floyd. Its mission concerns &ldquo;identifying and making recommendations to improve public safety at Stanford, and the subjective sense of safety among students, staff, and faculty.&rdquo;<a href="https://campusreform.org/article?id=17716">[RELATED: Stanford U prof, Antifa leader plans &#39;broad, visible and loud network&#39; against campus conservatives]</a>According to its first official report on July 12, the Board has &ldquo;informally characterized its work as &lsquo;re-imagining&rsquo; public safety.&rdquo; Among its proposed changes was the decrease in reliance upon armed officers, particularly in student-centered areas of the community. In return, the board suggested adopting a &ldquo;deployment policing model&rdquo; for armed police &mdash; for example, through an emergency response unit.On the weekends and other high-traffic events, the board states that &quot;hybrid deployments&quot; of sworn and non-sworn officers would be acceptable as well.In addition to the deployment of mental health professionals in certain circumstances, the board recommended that &ldquo;anti-bias and de-escalation education&rdquo; be provided for all security services and members of the Stanford community.&ldquo;The Board acknowledges that SUDPS [Stanford University Department of Public Safety] &nbsp;currently undergoes anti-bias and de-escalation training, and would recommend a review of that training in light of the broader holistic approach to education addressed in this recommendation,&rdquo; the report stated. &ldquo;The Board acknowledges that training and education of this sort has its shortcomings; however, on balance it is believed to be a critical piece of a holistic approach to effective change.&rdquo;<a href="https://campusreform.org/article?id=17678">[RELATED: Stanford staffers&#39; complaint states the university&#39;s DEI series casts Jews as supporters of White supremacy]</a>As quoted by <a href="https://news.stanford.edu/today/2021/07/21/community-board-public-safety-issues-first-annual-progress-report/">Stanford Today</a>, Stanford President <a href="https://president.stanford.edu/">Marc Tessier-Lavigne</a> said that the university will &ldquo;be working next to review the recommendations and begin designing implementation steps in response.&rdquo; Among other areas for future study, according to the outlet, are the higher numbers of interactions between police and racial minorities.&nbsp;Campus Reform reached out to Stanford University for comment; this article will be updated accordingly.Follow <a href="https://twitter.com/BenZeisloft">Ben Zeisloft</a> on Twitter

Stanford University’s 'Community Board on Public Safety' unveiled a set of recommendations for campus police reform, which would see fewer armed officers responding to calls. 


Fewer officers and more experts? 'Re-imagining' of campus safety is underway at Stanford.


A new Ohio State University survey found that nearly twice as many students were experiencing &quot;burnout&quot; at the end of the 2020-21 academic year than at the beginning of the fall semester.&nbsp;71% of students &nbsp;experienced &quot;burnout&quot; in April 2021 while 40% felt &quot;burnout&quot; in August 2020, according to the July 26&nbsp;<a href="https://wexnermedical.osu.edu/mediaroom/pressreleaselisting/survey-anxiety-depression-burnout-rising-among-college-students">survey</a>.&nbsp;During that same time period, unhealthy eating habits were up by 4%, consumption of alcohol was up by nearly 3%, and use of tobacco and vaping was up by 2%.Likewise, &quot;increased physical activity&quot; fell from 35% to 28% over the time period.<a href="https://campusreform.org/article?id=17855">[RELATED:Judge approves IU vaccine mandate, Purdue implements &#39;choice model&#39;]</a>Additionally, the rate of students screening positive for anxiety and depression was also up by around 4%, according to a press release, while the number of students seeing a mental health counselor increased from 13% to 22%.<a href="https://campusreform.org/article?id=17846">[RELATED: CDC, universities are paying students to be vaccine influencers]</a>Bernadette Mazurek Melnyk, the vice president for health promotion at the OSU office of the chief wellness officer, told Campus Reform&nbsp;that the unhealthy behaviors can be directly attributed to the impact of the coronavirus on students daily lives.&quot;This past year has been very challenging on so many people, including our students,&quot; &nbsp;<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Lora; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline !important; float: none;">&nbsp;Melnyk said. &quot;Our data is similar to that being reported across the United States yet our depression findings are lower than what other universities are reporting, which is good, but still is a large percentage of students who may be struggling,&quot;&nbsp;&quot;We are doing all that we can to intensify our efforts to help our students, faculty and staff,&quot; the vice president stated.&nbsp;Follow the author of this article on Twitter:&nbsp;<a href="https://twitter.com/ajmunguia23">@ajmunguia23</a>

A new survey released by Ohio State University shows that the coronavirus and lockdowns have negatively impacted the mental and physical  health of students.

OSU survey: More students are  burned out, unhealthier

Campus Reform Campus Profiles evaluate individual American college campuses based on liberal bias, speech codes, and other relevant policies and factors.Chapman University is a private university in California. Around 7,500 undergraduate students are enrolled at the university.Official Political Student Organizations:<img src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/campus.reform//17877o7m33k.png" class="fr-fic fr-dii">Conservative Organizations:&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;Chapman University Republicans Liberal Organizations:&nbsp;Chapman FeministsChapman University Young DemocratsQueer and Trans People of Color CollectiveQueer Student AllianceStudents for Justice in Palestine OpenSecrets Data on Chapman University Employee Political Donations:In the 2020 election cycle, 79.21% of Chapman University employee donations went to Democratic candidates in federal elections, while 20.79% of donations went to Republican candidates in federal elections, according to data from<a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/chapman-university/recipients?id=D000032488">&nbsp;OpenSecrets.&nbsp;</a><img src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/campus.reform//17877uzu7b.png" class="fr-fic fr-dii"> Foundation for Individual Rights in Education Rating:Chapman University does not have a FIRE rating. COVID-19:Chapman University is <a href="https://cusafelyback.chapman.edu/chapman-issues-updated-guidance-on-covid-19-vaccination/#:~:text=Based%20on%20the%20recent%20discussions,or%20file%20a%20personal%20declination.">requiring</a> a COVID-19 vaccine mandate for students.&nbsp;Stories by Campus Reform about Chapman University: <a href="https://campusreform.org/article?id=17647">Chapman University hosts racially segregated &#39;cultural graduation celebrations&#39;</a>&#39;There is no separate graduation for exceptional academic achievement, but one for someone&rsquo;s skin color,&#39; remarked one student. The upcoming ceremonies in July and August still drew criticism for not capitalizing the &#39;d&#39; in the &#39;disability Graduation Celebration.&#39; <a href="https://campusreform.org/article?id=16524">Chapman University professor under fire for joining Trump&rsquo;s legal team</a>A Chapman University law professor is under fire by faculty members after representing President Donald Trump in one of his election lawsuits. At least 159 faculty members at Chapman signed a statement saying the professor&#39;s actions are an &quot;attack on American democracy.&quot; <a href="https://campusreform.org/article?id=6433">Reagan, Thatcher busts defaced at Chapman University</a>The defaced busts included Ronald Reagan, Margaret Thatcher, Milton Friedman, Ayn Rand, and Albert Schweitzer. Students at Chapman University in Orange, California awoke Wednesday morning to find statues of various political figures defaced and accused of crimes including &quot;racism,&quot; &quot;homophobia,&quot; and &quot;neo-liberalist ideology.&quot;

Chapman University is a private university in California. Around 7,500 undergraduate students are enrolled at the university.

CAMPUS PROFILE: Chapman University

Texas Woman&#39;s University&#39;s new <a href="https://twu.edu/ws/courses/upcoming-course-descriptions/">course</a>, &ldquo;Womanist Spiritual Activism: Social Justice Theories for Wellness &amp; Holistic Transformation,&rdquo; explores radical and queer feminism.&nbsp;<a href="https://twu.edu/ws/faculty-and-staff/analouise-keating-phd/">AnaLouise Keating,</a> a professor in the public university&rsquo;s Multicultural Women&#39;s and Gender Studies Department, will teach the class using an &ldquo;inclusive approach to individual wellness and social change, one enacted by women, men, and nonbinary people of many racial/ethnic backgrounds.&rdquo;<a href="https://campusreform.org/article?id=17343" target="_blank">[RELATED: UC Santa Barbara unveils new &lsquo;feminist studies&rsquo; degree program]</a>According to her faculty <a href="https://twu.edu/ws/faculty-and-staff/analouise-keating-phd/">profile</a> on Texas Woman&rsquo;s University&rsquo;s website, Keating&#39;s work primarily focuses on &ldquo;transformation studies and &nbsp;U.S. women-of-color theories.&rdquo;&nbsp;The three-credit course, which will <a href="https://twu.edu/bursar/tuition-fees/">cost</a> in-state students $702, is inspired by <a href="https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/gloria-e-anzaldua">Gloria Anzald&uacute;a</a>&#39;s &ldquo;theory-praxis of spiritual activism&rdquo; and <a href="https://www.wellesley.edu/albright/about/faculty/layli-maparyan">Layli Maparyan</a>&rsquo;s &ldquo;womanist ideas,&rdquo; according to the course description.Other courses in the women&rsquo;s studies department that will be offered this fall include &ldquo;Art, Activism and Social Justice&rdquo; and &ldquo;Women of Colors.&rdquo;&nbsp;<a href="https://campusreform.org/article?id=17343" target="_blank">[RELATED: UC Santa Barbara unveils new &lsquo;feminist studies&rsquo; degree program]</a><a href="https://texaswomans.academia.edu/PatriciaStukes">Patricia Stukes</a>, Visiting Assistant Professor of Sociology and Women&rsquo;s Studies, will teach a course titled &ldquo;Sexualities and Identities.&#39;&#39; According to the course description, students will &ldquo;review the challenges of trans and intersex identity in defining traditional categories and expectations of gender and sexuality.&rdquo;Campus Reform reached out to Texas Woman&#39;s University and Keating for comment; this article will be updated accordingly.Follow the author of this article on Twitter:&nbsp;<a href="http://twitter.com/ameliascarponi">@ameliascarponi</a>

Students will learn an 'inclusive approach to individual wellness and social change, one enacted by women, men, and nonbinary people of many racial/ethnic backgrounds.'

'Womanist spiritual activism' training costs TX students over $700

Last week, Hillsdale College announced the rollout of &ldquo;The Hillsdale 1776 Curriculum,&rdquo; a cost-free learning tool that helps K-12 students appreciate America&#39;s &ldquo;unprecedented&rdquo; achievements.In response to Nikole Hannah-Jones &quot;1619 Project,&quot; Hillsdale states that the <a href="https://k12.hillsdale.edu/">curriculum</a> was created &nbsp;by &quot;teachers and professors&mdash;not activists, not journalists, not bureaucrats,&rdquo; &nbsp;and recognizes America as &ldquo;an exceptionally good country.&rdquo;Topics include &ldquo;American Founding&quot; and the &quot;Civil War,&quot; with future units on the &quot;Progressive Era&quot; and &quot;Modern America&quot; planned, the AP <a href="https://apnews.com/press-release/pr-newswire/hillsdale-3ca9a96de3367751bf51981aa9fb07fc">reported</a> on July 21.&nbsp;<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=17616">[VIDEO: 1776 Commission vice-chair sounds the alarm on teaching revisionist history in schools]</a>In the syllabus, Hillsdale President <a href="https://www.hillsdale.edu/staff/larry-p-arnn/">Larry Arnn</a> writes that the <a href="https://k12.hillsdale.edu/k12/media/Documents/An-Introduction-The-Hillsdale-1776-Curriculum-2.pdf?ext=.pdf">project</a> contains a &ldquo;loving study of the history and principles of our country&rdquo; with hopes to &ldquo;cultivate in students the knowledge and virtue necessary to live good lives as citizens.<a href="https://www.hillsdale.edu/hillsdale-blog/k12-classical-education/bcsi-staff-spotlight-dr-kathleen-otoole/">Kathleen O&rsquo;Toole</a>, assistant provost for K-12 education at Hillsdale, told Campus Reform that the 1776 Curriculum was &ldquo;developed over decades,&rdquo; and has been consistently taught in their college classrooms.&nbsp;&ldquo;The curriculum is a reflection of what is already taught at Hillsdale College and in Hillsdale-affiliated classical schools across the country. The curriculum has been developed over decades,&rdquo; O&rsquo;Toole said.&nbsp;<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=15720">[EXCLUSIVE: History prof rips New York Times&#39; 1619 Project for not telling &#39;the whole story&#39;]</a>Referencing slavery and the Civil War, O&rsquo;Toole added that the curriculum gives &ldquo;the average American teacher and parent the tools to study our history thoroughly and responsibly, acknowledging both the tragedies and the triumphs in our past&hellip; To help teachers share with American students the truth about their country.&rdquo;Follow the author of this article on Twitter:&nbsp;<a href="https://twitter.com/_addisonsmith1?lang=en">@_addisonsmith1</a>

A Hillsdale professor told 'Campus Reform' that the curriculum aims to ‘help teachers share with American students the truth about their country.’ 


Hillsdale's '1776 Curriculum'
 is a patriotic response to the '1619 Project'


States are weighing bans to Critical Race Theory in their school systems.As Campus Reform higher education fellow and former Department of Education press secretary Angela Morabito explains, Critical Race Theory is an academic framework that insists that &ldquo;America is institutionally racist and that people are inherently oppressive or oppressed based on skin color.&rdquo;<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=17653">[RELATED: Critical Race Theory 101 with Angela Morabito]</a>The left-wing ideological framework &mdash; which argues that white people belong to an &ldquo;oppressor&rdquo; class that subjugates &ldquo;oppressed&rdquo; racial minorities through structural racism &mdash; has grown in popularity since the death of George Floyd in 2020 and subsequent activism.Campus Reform frequently reports on the influence of Critical Race Theory in university systems. Administrators spend millions to ensure that professors are trained in the ideology.<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=17765">[RELATED: California university pays faculty to attend CRT training sessions]</a>The arguments of Critical Race Theory heavily influence primary and secondary education &mdash; even as early as preschool.<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=17501">[RELATED: Smith on &lsquo;anti-racist&rsquo; day care: &lsquo;Let them have a childhood, and stop trying to teach them about racial identity politics&rsquo;]</a>In response, legislators in the United States have introduced legislation to purge their states&rsquo; education systems of critical race theory.&nbsp;Campus Reform assembled a map to monitor states&rsquo; progress in proposing and enacting Critical Race Theory bans for both K-12 schools and university systems.<iframe title="Critical Race Theory Bans" aria-label="Map" id="datawrapper-chart-e7zg5" src="https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/e7zg5/1/" frameborder="0" width="600" height="650" style="max-height:none !important; border:none;"></iframe>States marked with a green pin have passed their legislation, while states with a red pin have not. Yellow pins denote a resolution rather than a bill.&nbsp;By hovering over each state, readers will be able to tell whether the state&rsquo;s legislation is relevant to K-12 schools, universities, or both.Follow the author of this article on Twitter:&nbsp;<a href="http://twitter.com/BenZeisloft">@BenZeisloft</a>

'Campus Reform's' map to monitors state bans on Critical Race Theory for both K-12 schools and university systems.


MAP: Critical Race Theory bans by state

Campus Reform Campus Profiles evaluate individual American college campuses based on liberal bias, speech codes, and other relevant policies and factors.East Tennessee State University is a public university within the Tennessee State University System. Around 11,000 undergraduate students are enrolled at the university.Official Political Student Organizations: <img src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/campus.reform//17866sjq1lh.png" class="fr-fic fr-dii"> Conservative Organizations:&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;Conservative Coalition Liberal Organizations:&nbsp;College Democrats of East Tennessee State UniversityDiversity EducatorsETSU EcoNutsSAGAThe People&rsquo;s UnionYoung Democratic Socialists of America ESTU OpenSecrets Data on University of East Tennessee State University Employee Political Donations:In the 2020 election cycle, 85.75% of East Tennessee State University employee donations went to Democratic candidates in federal elections, while 14.25% of donations went to Republican candidates in federal elections, according to data from<a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/east-tennessee-state-university/recipients?id=D000070214">&nbsp;OpenSecrets.&nbsp;</a><img src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/campus.reform//17866xm14f.png" class="fr-fic fr-dii">Foundation for Individual Rights in Education Rating:East Tennessee State University has been given a<a href="https://www.thefire.org/schools/east-tennessee-state-university/">&nbsp;yellow light</a> speech code. According to FIRE, this is due to &ldquo;at least one university ambiguous policy that too easily encourages administrative abuse and arbitrary application.&rdquo; FIRE also notes that a yellow light policy at a public institution is unconstitutional.&nbsp;<img src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/campus.reform//17866ws4nb9.png" class="fr-fic fr-dii"> COVID-19:East Tennessee State University is <a href="https://www.etsu.edu/coronavirus/health-and-safety/vaccine.php#:~:text=More%20details%20about%20the%20decision,the%20University%20Health%20Center%20website.">NOT</a> requiring a COVID-19 vaccine mandate for students.&nbsp;Stories by Campus Reform about East Tennessee State University: <a href="https://campusreform.org/article?id=7446">ETSU students berate Newt Gingrich while accusing him of incivility</a>Eastern Tennessee State University accused him of being &ldquo;racist, sexist, [and] anti-gay&rdquo; while demanding that he &ldquo;go away.&rdquo;

East Tennessee State University is a public university within the Tennessee State University System. Around 11,000 undergraduate students are enrolled at the university.

CAMPUS PROFILE: East Tennessee State University

As college students prepare to go back to school, universities that are requiring students to be vaccinated against COVID-19 are on a collision course with lagging vaccination rates just weeks before the fall semester.Campus Reform&nbsp;looked at student vaccination rates at other major universities that are requiring students to get a COVID vaccine. We found multiple colleges where significant numbers of students have not yet complied with the mandate, even with deadlines approaching quickly.&nbsp;Virginia Tech University students must get the <a href="https://ready.vt.edu/vaccinations.html">vaccine&nbsp;</a>and upload proof by August 6. However, as of July 26, only 67% of students have <a href="https://ready.vt.edu/vaccinations/vaccination-dashboard.html">reported&nbsp;</a>to the university that they are fully vaccinated.&nbsp;<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=17729">[RELATED: Indiana University students sue school over vaccine mandate]</a>In short, one out of every three Virginia Tech students has less than two weeks to get themselves fully vaccinated, or else they will <a href="https://ready.vt.edu/vaccinations.html">not be allowed&nbsp;</a>to attend classes in the fall. Since the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines require two doses, spaced several weeks apart, a student who has not yet received the first dose as of this writing will not be fully vaccinated by the deadline.&nbsp;Emory University<a href="https://www.emory.edu/forward/covid-19/dashboard/index.html">&nbsp;says</a> that 77.5% of their students are vaccinated, which leaves more than one in five students that need to comply before the school&#39;s August 1 <a href="https://studenthealth.emory.edu/immunization/index.html">deadline</a>. Those who do not comply with the policy may <a href="https://studenthealth.emory.edu/immunization/index.html">lose</a> their ability to register for classes or to change their existing class schedule.&nbsp;The University of Connecticut has <a href="https://studenthealth.uconn.edu/updates-events/coronavirus/">set</a> a July 31st deadline for all students to be either vaccinated or exempted on religious or medical grounds. As of July 28, 87% of residential students at the university&#39;s main campus have <a href="https://coviddashboard.uconn.edu/">gotten</a> at least one dose of the vaccine.&nbsp;Based on the timing of that data, the remaining 13% of students who have not received any doses lack sufficient time between July 28 and the July 31 deadline to be fully vaccinated with either the Pfizer or Moderna vaccines. The university&#39;s vaccination policy <a href="https://policy.uconn.edu/2021/06/04/covid-19-immunization-record-requirement-for-students/">states</a> that &quot;failure to comply...may result in a loss of privilege and/or sanctions.&quot;<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=17857">[RELATED: Religious exemption? Some colleges are requiring notes from clergy.]</a>The University of Michigan in Ann Arbor is <a href="https://record.umich.edu/articles/covid-19-vaccine-to-be-required-for-students-who-live-on-campus/">requiring</a> students who live on campus to be vaccinated before they move in to campus housing. As of July 26, the University <a href="https://campusblueprint.umich.edu/dashboard/">reports</a> that 79% of the student body, regardless of where they live, are fully vaccinated.&nbsp;Though the deadline for students to submit documentation of their vaccine was July 16, The university is still <a href="https://campusblueprint.umich.edu/vaccine/#unable-to-meet-July-16-deadline-self-report-vaccination-status-header">permitting</a> students to upload their vaccine documentation late and holding upcoming vaccine clinics to encourage compliance.&nbsp;U.C. Berkeley has <a href="https://uhs.berkeley.edu/requirements/covid19">set</a> an August 4 deadline for all students to receive the COVID-19 vaccine, but so far, the school<a href="https://coronavirus.berkeley.edu/dashboard/immunization/">&nbsp;estimates</a> that slightly over half of returning undergraduate students are vaccinated.&nbsp;The California university does allow partially-vaccinated students to return to campus so long as they get the second dose of their vaccine, and on the condition that they wear masks in public places and submit to weekly testing until they are fully vaccinated.With vaccination rates still lagging as college deadlines approach, colleges will be forced to confront the fact that a significant portion of their students are likely to be unvaccinated at the time the Fall semester begins. Students who do not comply with the vaccination policies will be forced to confront consequences from their universities, including losing access to campus buildings and being unable to attend classes.Follow the author of this article on Twitter:&nbsp;<a href="http://twitter.com/AngelaLMorabito" style=" text-align: start;">@AngelaLMorabito</a>

'Campus Reform' surveyed a number of private and public universities across the country to see where student vaccination rates stand weeks ahead of the fall semester. 

Universities are running out of time on their own vaccination deadlines

Campus Reform Campus Profiles evaluate individual American college campuses based on liberal bias, speech codes, and other relevant policies and factors.University of Central Florida is a public university within the State University System of Florida. Around 61,000 undergraduate students are enrolled at the university.&nbsp;Official Political Student Organizations:<img src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/campus.reform//17861stf8ls.png" class="fr-fic fr-dii"> Conservative Organizations:&nbsp;College RepublicansKnights for IsraelTurning Point USAYoung Americans for FreedomYoung Americans for Liberty&nbsp;Liberal Organizations:&nbsp;Adaptive and Inclusive ClubAmerican Association of University WomenAmnesty InternationalCampus Peace ActionCollege Democrats at UCFDefend Our FutureDreamers at UCFEmpowered Women of ColorFor Florida&rsquo;s FutureIntellectual Decisions on Environmental Awareness Solutions for UsKilljoy SocietyKnights for SocialismKnights go GreenLGBTQ+ ServicesNational Organization for Women at UCFOne at UCFPlanned Parenthood Generation ActionPride Graduate Student AssociationPride Student AssociationProgressive Action at UCFSocial Justice and AdvocacyStudent Labor Action ProjectStudent Center for the Public TrustStudents for Justice in PalestineThe Multicultural Partnership of Organizers Working for Equity and ResilienceWe are Here @ UCFWomen&#39;s Student UnionKnights for Inspiring ConsciousnessYoung Democratic Socialists of America at UCFWomxn Everywhere&nbsp;OpenSecrets Data on University of Central Florida Employee Political Donations:In the 2020 election cycle, 92.22% of University of Central Florida employee donations went to Democratic candidates in federal elections, while 7.78% of donations went to Republican candidates in federal elections, according to data from<a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/university-of-central-florida/recipients?id=D000030648">&nbsp;OpenSecrets.&nbsp;</a><img src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/campus.reform//17861ha9nr.png" class="fr-fic fr-dii">Foundation for Individual Rights in Education Rating:University of Central Florida has been given a<a href="https://www.thefire.org/schools/university-of-central-florida/">&nbsp;yellow light</a> speech code. According to FIRE, this is due to &ldquo;at least one university ambiguous policy that too easily encourages administrative abuse and arbitrary application.&rdquo; FIRE also notes that a yellow light policy at a public institution is unconstitutional.&nbsp;<img src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/campus.reform//17861pqjn99.png" class="fr-fic fr-dii"> COVID-19:University of Central Florida is <a href="https://www.ucf.edu/coronavirus/vaccines/#:~:text=There%20is%20no%20requirement%20for,our%20community's%20health%20and%20safety.">NOT</a> requiring a COVID-19 vaccine mandate for students.&nbsp;Stories by Campus Reform&nbsp;about University of Central Florida: <a href="https://campusreform.org/article?id=9704">UCF socialists: GOP are &#39;terrorists,&#39; &#39;cops are bastards&#39;&nbsp;</a>The Knights for Socialism (KFS) student group has caused quite a stir at the University of Central Florida (UCF) during its recruitment drive on campus.<a href="https://campusreform.org/article?id=8752">Socialist group at UCF plans &#39;Whack-a-Trump Pinata&#39; event&nbsp;</a>The same University of Central Florida student group that recently hosted a &ldquo;Leftist Fight Club&rdquo; workshop on physically fighting conservatives is now promoting a &ldquo;Whack-a-Trump Pinata&rdquo; event.<a href="https://campusreform.org/article?id=8874">UCF prof: &#39;Right-wing doesn&#39;t want people to be educated&#39;&nbsp;</a>A video uploaded to Facebook last week shows a professor from University of Central Florida (UCF) slamming Republicans as anti-education and trigger-happy.

University of Central Florida is a public university within the Florida State University System. Around 61,000 undergraduate students are enrolled at the university.

CAMPUS PROFILE: University of Central Florida


Despite a University of Washington policy that enables students to choose a preferred first, middle, and last name for display on class rosters and ID cards, there is now a student petition demanding the school allow transgender students to use their &quot;chosen&quot; names on diplomas.&nbsp;Though having a stated graduation date of spring 2021, PhD candidate and instructor<a href="https://socialwork.uw.edu/vern-harner">&nbsp;Vern Harner</a> started the July 8 <a href="https://www.change.org/p/university-of-washington-demand-uw-allow-trans-student-chosen-first-names-on-diplomas?utm_source=share_petition&utm_medium=custom_url&recruited_by_id=3c36ce80-8395-11e7-a5bb-ed545f87df49">petition</a>, which now has over 30,000 signatures.&nbsp;In the petition, Harner acknowledges that while UW &ldquo;supports trans students in many ways,&rdquo; not allowing students the option of displaying their chosen names on their diploma is &ldquo;not only an equity issue but a safety issue for trans individuals.&quot;<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=15642">[RELATED: Massachusetts women&#39;s college strives to be &#39;gender diverse&#39; with new &#39;chosen name&#39; policy&#39;]</a>&ldquo;There is no state or federal law enforcing full legal names on diplomas. While transcripts must reflect legal names, there are multiple universities, including <a href="https://registrar.yale.edu/students/name-policy-and-use">Yale</a>, <a href="https://www.miamistudent.net/article/2021/05/diploma-name-of-use">Miami University</a>, the <a href="https://www.umsystem.edu/ums/rules/collected_rules/information/ch180/180.040_student_preferred_name_policy?fbclid=IwAR24JbwoeTzRNPki3Xpk0uDN8YDMg7Jp6n0yZvvkJNxx60ucWNOJ_eQox1E">University of Missouri</a>, and the <a href="https://www.du.edu/registrar/records/diplomas.html">University of Denver</a>, that have policies making it simple for trans students to have diplomas reflecting chosen first names,&rdquo; the petition continues.<a href="https://www.dailyuw.com/news/article_cc606f56-e82d-11eb-9ac7-2ffc38ec2273.html?fbclid=IwAR2Yvit83l2rFlQp03z8XKAiKJLaD9zhiVywNCvbRWn9wyKLis1RChhnjdA">The Daily</a>, the school&#39;s student newspaper, reports that the registrar&#39;s office is considering options, but has not made any official announcement. The university had updated its preferred name policy in 2018.&nbsp;<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=14403">[RELATED: NYU chosen pronoun policy could create confusing guessing game]</a>Earlier this year, UW<a href="https://registrar.washington.edu/students/pronouns/">&nbsp;implemented</a> a &ldquo;central pronoun option,&rdquo; allowing students, faculty, and staff to &ldquo;express what pronouns they go by in their everyday lives.&rdquo; Like the university&rsquo;s chosen name policy, student pronouns appear on course rosters. While instructors are &ldquo;strongly encouraged&rdquo; to use their students&#39; chosen pronouns, they are &ldquo;not required to do so,&rdquo; the policy states.&nbsp;On July 20, Harner published an <a href="https://www.change.org/p/university-of-washington-demand-uw-allow-trans-student-chosen-first-names-on-diplomas/u/29359102">update</a>, revealing she is expected to meet with the incoming chair of UW&rsquo;s faculty senate to &ldquo;discuss the issue and process for changing this policy.&rdquo;According to <a href="https://www.campuspride.org/tpc/records/">Campus Pride</a>, 265 colleges and universities currently allow students to use a chosen first name on campus records.&nbsp;Campus Reform reached out to Harner and the University of Washington for comment; this article will be updated accordingly.Follow the author of this article on Twitter:&nbsp;<a href="http://twitter.com/ameliascarponi">@ameliascarponi</a>

The University of Washington already allows students to use preferred names on ID cards and class rosters. 

Legal names on diplomas make trans students unsafe, petition argues 

A University of California, Davis study argues that the designation of some fish as &ldquo;rough&rdquo; or &ldquo;trash&rdquo; is rooted in the historical prejudice of &quot;white males.&quot;&nbsp;A team of researchers from UC Davis &mdash; joined by colleagues from the University of Oklahoma, University of Wisconsin-Madison and University of Notre Dame &mdash; called for a &ldquo;paradigm shift&rdquo; in conservation of native fishes, as well as &nbsp;&ldquo;indigenous perspectives into fisheries management.&rdquo;&nbsp;&ldquo;Perspectives of white males have overwhelmingly dominated fisheries science and management in the USA,&rdquo; the <a href="https://afspubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/fsh.10660">study</a> states. &ldquo;This dynamic is exemplified by bias against &lsquo;rough fish&rsquo; &mdash; a pejorative ascribing low-to-zero value for countless native fishes. One product of this bias is that biologists have ironically worked against conservation of diverse fishes for over a century, and these problems persist today.&rdquo;<a href="https://campusreform.org/article?id=17889">[RELATED: ASU welcomes new prof who focuses on applying &#39;critical race theory&#39; to music]</a>The study argues that designating certain species as &ldquo;rough fish,&rdquo; &ldquo;trash fish,&rdquo; or &ldquo;coarse fish&rdquo; is a byproduct of white males&rsquo; dominance of freshwater fisheries in North America for the past three centuries.&nbsp;&ldquo;When you trace the history of the problem, you quickly realize it&rsquo;s because the field was shaped by white men, excluding other points of view,&rdquo; UC Davis ecology professor and lead author <a href="https://wfcb.ucdavis.edu/people/faculty/rypel-andrew">Andrew Rypel</a> told UC Davis&rsquo; official <a href="https://www.ucdavis.edu/news/historic-racism-impacted-native-fish-too">news outlet</a>. &ldquo;Sometimes you have to look at that history honestly to figure out what to do.&rdquo;Rypel and his co-authors write, &ldquo;Eurocentric natural resource management tends to focus on a notion that there is only a single &lsquo;knowable truth&rsquo; &hellip; this idea, when applied to fisheries, has led to controlling and patriarchal views that emphasize dominance over natural ecosystems and peoples.&rdquo;<a href="https://campusreform.org/article?id=14669" style=" text-align: left;">[RELATED: UW-Madison editorial calls to &#39;decolonize&#39; &#39;eurocentric, whitewashed, sexist&#39; curriculum]</a>Campus Reform asked Rypel whether his team evaluated if populations in the United States would willingly adopt new labels for certain fish species if pushed by state governments. He explained that &ldquo;if there was concern among anglers about adopting specific new labels, outreach efforts might be helpful to arrive at a consensus option,&rdquo; as &ldquo;engaging stakeholders is always an essential aspect to successful natural resource management.&rdquo;In their study, the scholars call on state governments to &ldquo;recognize that the pejorative rough fish reflects a cultural problem and remove it from official documents.&rdquo; Furthermore, use of the terms &ldquo;sportfish&rdquo; and &ldquo;gamefish&rdquo; versus &ldquo;non-game fish&rdquo; may also be &ldquo;problematic.&rdquo;Campus Reform&nbsp;reached out to UC Davis for comment; this article will be updated accordingly. Follow <a href="https://twitter.com/BenZeisloft">Ben Zeisloft</a> on Twitter

A University of California, Davis study alleges that labeling fish as 'rough' or 'trash'  is racist and  harmful to conservation efforts.

Calling fish 'trash' is now racist

House Democrats are advancing a bill that would allow Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) students to receive federal student loans and Pell Grants for the first time.&nbsp;The bill would also make DACA students eligible for federal work-study, which subsidizes part-time jobs for college students using federal taxpayer funds.&nbsp;<a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/117/hr4502">H.R. 4502</a>, which covers appropriations for the Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, contains a provision to make DACA students and students with Temporary Protected Status eligible for Federal Student Aid.&nbsp;Under current law, students who came to the U.S. illegally or were brought here illegally are not eligible for federal aid. Federal aid is <a href="https://studentaid.gov/understand-aid/eligibility/requirements/non-us-citizens">restricted</a> to U.S. citizens and certain noncitizens, such as permanent residents, refugees, and asylees, who meet certain criteria.<a href="https://campusreform.org/article?id=10354">[RELATED: Historians look to help activists &#39;resist&#39; immigration control]</a>The financial impact of expanded federal loan access is hard to measure, given the lack of sound estimates on how this new bill may influence more DACA students to pursue college. While, in theory, a lender would turn a profit on loans, this is likely not the case for Federal Student Aid. The Biden administration <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/federal-student-loan-loss-forecast-rises-by-53-billion-11623067200?mod=djemCapitalJournalDaybreak">projects</a> that Federal Student Aid will lose $68 billion over the long term due to loans that are never repaid, per the Wall Street Journal.&nbsp;<a href="https://www.fairus.org/staff/spencer-raley">Spencer Raley</a>, Director of Research at the Federation for American Immigration Reform, told Campus Reform&nbsp;that Pell grants for DACA students is likely to cost almost a billion dollars annually.&nbsp;Raley said, &quot;According to recent estimates by <a href="https://www.migrationpolicy.org/sites/default/files/publications/DACA-Occupational-2017-FINAL.pdf" style=" text-align: start;">MPI</a>&nbsp;and the&nbsp;<a href="https://www.presidentsalliance.org/press/new-report-more-than-450000-undocumented-students-enrolled-in-colleges-universities-in-united-states/" style=" text-align: start;">NAE</a>, there are roughly 215,000-240,000&nbsp;DACA-eligible students&quot; in undergraduate college programs right now.&nbsp;&quot;Based on <a href="https://www.fairus.org/issue/publications-resources/fiscal-burden-illegal-immigration-united-states-taxpayers">FAIR&#39;s 2017 Fiscal Cost Study</a>,&quot; he said, &quot;the vast majority of these hold an income profile that makes them eligible for Pell Grants. And finally, with the average Pell Grant coming out to $4,418&nbsp;<a href="https://nces.ed.gov/ipeds/TrendGenerator/app/answer/8/36#:~:text=Financial%20Aid%3A%20What%20is%20the,is%20based%20on%205%2C698%20institutions." style=" text-align: start;">according to the NCES</a>, that means affording DACA-eligible&nbsp;individuals access to federal Pell grants could cost American taxpayers up to $950 million every year.&quot;Raley says that the proposal is unfair to U.S. citizens, particularly in light of the high cost of college. &quot;During a time when so many young Americans are struggling to afford a college education,&nbsp;it doesn&#39;t make sense to expand&nbsp;eligibility&nbsp;for these programs to illegal immigrants,&quot; he said.&nbsp;<a href="https://campusreform.org/article?id=12059">[RELATED:&nbsp;Immigration experts: In-state tuition for illegal aliens violates Clinton-era federal law]</a>The future of DACA is uncertain now that a federal court ruled that the program is <a href="https://news.yahoo.com/biden-said-doj-appeal-deeply-135115485.html">unconstitutional</a>. The court has ordered the Biden administration to stop certifying new DACA applications, though the White House has pledged to appeal the ruling.&nbsp;The ruling does not affect the status of current DACA recipients. &nbsp;The House Appropriations Committee <a href="https://appropriations.house.gov/news/press-releases/house-to-consider-appropriations-bills-next-week">expects&nbsp;</a>the bill be considered by the House next week.&nbsp;Follow the author of this article on Twitter:&nbsp;<a href="http://twitter.com/AngelaLMorabito" style=" text-align: start;">@AngelaLMorabito</a>

Expanding the Pell Grant program to DACA students could cost $950 billion per year, according to the Federation for American Immigration Reform. 

House Dems want to give DACA college students financial aid 

A number of schools within the University of California system are praising a federal court ruling that ordered President Donald Trump and his administration to fully restore the DACA program.&nbsp; <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Lora; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline !important; float: none;">According to the&nbsp;<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/04/us/daca-reinstated.html" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Lora; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline !important; float: none;">New York Times</a><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Lora; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline !important; float: none;">,&nbsp;U.S. District Judge Nicholas G. Garaufis ordered that the Trump administration fully restore the Obama-era Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, which allows hundreds of thousands of young Americans born overseas but brought to the U.S. at a young age to remain in the country legally.&nbsp; Following the decision, several universities within the University of California system praised the ruling. <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=13993" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[RELATED: Berkeley backs illegal students as SCOTUS hears DACA arguments]</a> On December 4, Garaufis ordered the Trump administration to allow more illegal immigrants to request legal status. Since the decision, schools across the United States have offered their opinions on the decision. University of California System President Michael Drake and Board of Regents Chair John A. P&eacute;rez <a href="https://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/press-room/uc-celebrates-court-order-restore-daca-program?utm_source=twitter-ucnewsroom&utm_medium=social-organic&utm_campaign=daca" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">praised</a> the decision, calling it &quot;a win.&quot; The latest decision comes after the U.S. Supreme Court handed down a 5-4 decision in June that stated Trump&rsquo;s blockage of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals Act (DACA) was unconstitutional.&nbsp; That decision came about as a result of a legal challenge brought by the University of California against the Trump administration. At the time the lawsuit was filed, the UC system president was Janet Napolitano, who served as former President Barack Obama&#39;s Homeland Security Secretary.&nbsp; UC-Davis Chancellor Gary S. May, praised Garaufis&rsquo;s decision, writing in a statement that &quot;while this decision is a great step forward, a permanent solution for DACA, Temporary Protected Status (TPS) and many other undocumented immigrant students is needed, including a path to citizenship.&quot;&nbsp; <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=10528" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[RELATED: UC Berkeley allocating up to $800k for &#39;undocumented&#39; students]</a> &quot;Undocumented immigrant students must have access to the basic and human rights afforded to U.S. citizens,&quot; May added. UC-Berkeley Senior Director of Strategic Communications Janet Gilmore told Campus Reform that more students will now be given the opportunity to enroll in the DACA program at UC Berkeley.&nbsp; &ldquo;Many students who were not previously afforded the opportunity to apply for DACA will be doing so, and others will need to re-apply. Our Undocumented Students Program is here to offer assistance and support to these students,&quot; Gilmore said.&nbsp; Follow the author of this article:&nbsp;<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/profile?pid=5457360" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Ethan Khaldarov</a>

The statements come after UC led the charge in suing the Trump administration.

University of California praises DACA ruling

Prior to the Supreme Court&rsquo;s recent ruling on DACA, campuses in the University of California system issued declarations of support for their illegal immigrant students. The University of California System sued the Trump administration in 2017 over its effort to reverse legal protections for DACA recipients. The legal protections were granted as part of an executive order issued by then-President Barack Obama, in whose administration the now-UC System President served as the Department of Homeland Security Secretary.The University of California-Berkeley issued a &ldquo;<a href="https://news.berkeley.edu/2020/04/27/a-message-of-support-for-uc-berkeleys-undocumented-community/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">message of support</a>&rdquo; for illegal immigrant students, written by Chancellor Carol Christ and Vice Chancellor for Equity and Inclusion Oscar Dub&oacute;n, Jr., calling for students &ldquo;to be mindful and respectful of each other during this time&rdquo; and to maintain a &ldquo;safe and open learning community.&ldquo;Every member of the UC Berkeley community is a valuable contributor to the university, regardless of immigration status,&rdquo; the letter reads. &ldquo;We recognize that there are many issues of concern that are causing a heightened level of anxiety for members of our community, including the pending U.S. Supreme Court decision on the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, which is expected soon. &nbsp;We remain committed to making sure Berkeley&rsquo;s undocumented community experiences our university as a welcoming, supportive, and inclusive space.&rdquo;<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=14755" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration:none;" target="_blank">[RELATED: &#39;A bit of fraud encouraged by Berkeley&#39;: University tells illegal immigrants to fill out census forms]</a>&ldquo;Many in our community are experiencing another level of uncertainty as we await the U.S. Supreme Court&rsquo;s ruling on the future of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program,&rdquo; UC Davis Chancellor Gary May <a href="https://leadership.ucdavis.edu/news/messages/chancellor-messages/uc-davis-is-committed-to-our-undocumented-community" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration:none;" target="_blank">wrote in an open letter</a> prior to the justices&#39; decision.&ldquo;I want to assure you that UC Davis remains committed to supporting our undocumented community, no matter the outcome of this decision...Our AB 540 and Undocumented Student Center is a model of empowerment, opportunity and equity. During this critical time, the center provides a sense of community and solidarity,&quot; the chancellor added.The University of California system backed up Berkeley and Davis, <a href="https://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/initiative/student-opportunity/undocumented-students" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration:none;" target="_blank">saying</a>, &ldquo;UC is committed to providing a safe and supportive environment for its undocumented students and to providing the resources for their success... UC will continue to welcome and support students without regard to immigration status, will not share student information without legal warrant and will not take part in joint efforts with any government agency to carry out federal immigration policy.&rdquo;In an email, University of California spokeswoman Sarah McBride <a href="https://undoc.ucmerced.edu/cares-act-undocumented-students" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration:none;" target="_blank">wrote</a>, &ldquo;The University of California is very disappointed that undocumented students, some of the most vulnerable members of our community, are not eligible to access funds from the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act.&rdquo;&ldquo;However,&rdquo; she continued, &ldquo;these students will not be left empty-handed; the University will leverage other institutional funds to replace financial support that these students have been unfairly restricted from accessing.&rdquo;<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=14934" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration:none;" target="_blank">[RELATED: WSU provides &#39;emergency&#39; funding to illegal immigrant students in response to bailout exclusion]</a>UC-San Francisco Chancellor Sam Hawgood joined the chorus with <a href="https://www.statnews.com/2020/05/01/striking-down-daca-thwart-americas-pandemic-response/" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration:none;" target="_blank">an open letter</a> voicing support for DACA recipients.&nbsp;&ldquo;If the court strikes down DACA,&rdquo; Hawgood&rsquo;s letter, co-authored with Priscilla Chan, co-founder and co-CEO of the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, reads, &ldquo;then every DACA recipient &mdash; including 29,000 physicians, nurses, health aides, and technicians &mdash; could be forced from the United States within two years. Some could have only weeks.&rdquo; The letter concluded that the Supreme Court ought not to overturn DACA because it could impact the COVID-19 response.&ldquo;The University of California remains steadfast to its commitment of supporting undocumented students&rsquo; higher education, career readiness, and post-graduation opportunities,&rdquo; UC Los Angeles Associate Vice Provost for Diversity &amp; Engagement Elizabeth Halimah said in a statement accompanying <a href="https://ucla.app.box.com/v/IncomeGenerationOptionsToolkit" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration:none;" target="_blank">a toolkit</a> specifically advising illegal immigrant students on ways to generate income.&nbsp;&quot;We will work to ensure they have a path forward to fulfilling their aspirations during and after their time at UC,&rdquo; Halimah concluded.<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=14931" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration:none;" target="_blank">[RELATED: &lsquo;I&rsquo;m Stalin&rsquo;: UCLA &#39;libertarian Antichrist&#39; wants to ban homeschooling, charter schools]</a>UC-Merced Associate Director for Educational Equity and Access Alejandro S. Delgadillo <a href="https://undoc.ucmerced.edu/cares-act-undocumented-students" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration:none;" target="_blank">told UC students</a>, &ldquo;The University of California continues to stand with our undocumented communities throughout the UC system. Though undocumented students are excluded from the funds that the CARES Act provides to undergraduate and graduate students the UC will continue to ensure that our all students have secure housing, food security, and access to health services.&rdquo;Finally, UC-Santa Barbara <a href="https://t.e2ma.net/message/o2joif/ou5vsvg" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">pledged</a> to defend DACA students, no matter what the Supreme Court&rsquo;s ruling said.&ldquo;As a campus we are committed to the diversity of experience and scholarship interests that all students bring to our campus,&rdquo; the statement reads. &ldquo;It is vital to the excellence of our university. The &nbsp;journey and success of our undocumented student community will have important impacts on the communities and world in which we all live.&rdquo;&ldquo;As we navigate these unprecedented circumstances we do so as a university community,&rdquo; Santa Barbara officials said. &ldquo;We stand firm in our commitment to provide inclusive access, aid, services, and support, especially to those experiencing a higher level of uncertainty.&rdquo;&nbsp;Follow the author of this article on Twitter:&nbsp;<a href="http://twitter.com/Arik_Schneider" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@Arik_Schneider</a>

The order granted legal status to hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants.

UC stood ready to support DACA students, 'no matter the outcome' of SCOTUS decision

The Supreme Court on Thursday ruled in favor of extending legal protections for recipients of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, commonly referred to as Dreamers, or individuals who came to the U.S. illegally, with their parents, as children. Describing the decision as &ldquo;arbitrary and capricious,&rdquo; the Supreme Court <a href="https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/19pdf/18-587_5ifl.pdf" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration:none;" target="_blank">ruled</a> that the Trump administration&rsquo;s reasoning in shutting down the DACA program was unsatisfactory.&nbsp;The court&rsquo;s ruling resulted from issues of presentation, rather than policy.&nbsp;Universities have awaited the decision because of its bearing on immigrant students; according to April 2020 findings from <a href="https://www.presidentsimmigrationalliance.org/pressrelease/new-report-more-than-450000-undocumented-students-enrolled-in-colleges-universities-in-united-states/" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration:none;" target="_blank">New American Economy and Presidents&rsquo; Alliance on Higher Education and Immigration</a>, more than 450,000 -- approximately 2 percent of all students -- illegal immigrants are enrolled in American higher education institutions. Additionally, 216,000 of these students hold or are eligible for DACA.&nbsp;<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=14751" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration:none;" target="_blank">[RELATED: College bailout money could go to illegal immigrants (UPDATED)] </a>Ahead of the decision, the University of Virginia <a href="https://news.virginia.edu/content/uva-announces-all-students-regardless-citizenship-status-are-eligible-enroll" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration:none;" target="_blank">announced Tuesday</a> that, regardless of citizenship or immigration status, all students will be eligible for admission and enrollment at the university.&nbsp;&ldquo;Regardless of the outcome of [the Supreme Court] case, we will continue to welcome and actively support our current DACA students,&rdquo; said Kevin McDonald, vice president for diversity, equity, and inclusion at UVA.Similarly, the University of California-Berkeley voiced support for its illegal immigrant students prior to Thursday&rsquo;s opinon, calling itself &ldquo;students&rsquo; steadfast ally&rdquo; and <a href="https://news.berkeley.edu/2020/06/16/supreme-court-ruling-on-daca-looms-berkeley-is-students-steadfast-ally/" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration:none;" target="_blank">sharing</a> protocols the school would follow in order to maintain students&rsquo; work authorizations, as well as legal resources.&nbsp;The University of California System, led by Janet Napolitano, the former Department of Homeland Security Secretary under President Barack Obama, sued DHS under the Trump administration in 2017, alleging that the plan to scrap legal protections for Dreamers was unconstitutional.&nbsp;As Campus Reform previously <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=13839" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">reported</a>, more than 160 universities across the country filed an amicus brief in support of UC&#39;s challenge.&nbsp;The University of California applauded the court&#39;s decision.&nbsp;&quot;UC was the first university in the nation to file a lawsuit challenging the federal government&rsquo;s proposed rescission of DACA. Over the past three years, we have worked together to advance our case through the courts and to advocate for DACA recipients on every front. And today, our collective efforts paid off,&quot; Napolitano said. &quot;We applaud the U.S. Supreme Court&rsquo;s decision to strike down the administration&rsquo;s arbitrary attempt to end a policy that has enabled some 650,000 immigrants &ndash; brought to the U.S. as children &ndash; to live and work in the only country they know as home.&quot;&quot;At the University of California, we will continue to vigorously defend the privacy and civil rights of undocumented students and all of our community members, and to provide free legal services through the UC Immigrant Legal Services Center and dedicated undocumented student centers on our campuses,&quot; Napolitano <a href="https://newsroom.ucla.edu/releases/university-of-california-celebrates-supreme-court-win-on-daca" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">added</a>.Following the ruling, Vanderbilt University also <a href="https://news.vanderbilt.edu/2020/06/18/statement-from-vanderbilt-university-regarding-supreme-court-ruling-on-daca/" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration:none;" target="_blank">released a statement</a> agreeing with &ldquo;the Supreme Court&rsquo;s decision that the Trump Administration did not follow the proper administrative process in attempting to rescind DACA.&rdquo;&nbsp;&ldquo;It is unfathomable that we as a nation would deny these young people the ability to continue to reach their dreams in the only nation they&rsquo;ve ever called home,&rdquo; Vanderbilt said.&nbsp;<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=14895" style="text-decoration:none;">[RELATED: California Community Colleges sue to give federal bailout money to illegal immigrants]</a>Washington Attorney General Robert Ferguson, who <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=14895" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration:none;" target="_blank">sued the Department of Education</a> in May over the exclusion of illegal immigrants from federal student aid, released a <a href="https://www.atg.wa.gov/news/news-releases/ag-ferguson-statement-us-supreme-court-protecting-daca-program" style="text-decoration:none;">statement</a> that denounced President Donald Trump&rsquo;s plan to end DACA as &ldquo;both cruel and unlawful.&nbsp;Today, our nation&rsquo;s highest court agreed. Thanks to today&rsquo;s decision, they can continue to live and work in what is for many of them the only home they&rsquo;ve ever known,&rdquo; Ferguson continued.&nbsp;Follow the author of this article on Twitter:&nbsp;<a href="http://twitter.com/mariatcopeland" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@mariatcopeland</a>

Both prior to and following the ruling, universities were vocal in their support for illegal immigrant students.

Supreme Court ruling to benefit 200,000+ DACA students

Stanford University law students, upset about a &ldquo;morally affronting&rdquo; discussion of the arguments for and against the legality of DACA, staged a walkout of the event in protest.On Feb. 10, Texas Solicitor General Kyle Hawkins spoke at Stanford Law School, sponsored by Stanford&rsquo;s Federalist Society chapter. After Hawkins began his speech on the Obama-era Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, more than half of those in the room got up and left. The purpose of Hawkins&rsquo; speech was to discuss the issues of legalities of repealing DACA.&nbsp;Hawkins stated that he would be covering and arguing both sides for and against DACA.<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=14292" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration:none;" target="_blank">[RELATED: Michigan State: &#39;Our goal is to reduce apprehension&#39; of illegal immigrants]</a>In October 2018, Stanford and 18 other universities filed an <a href="https://www.stanforddaily.com/2019/10/07/stanford-files-amicus-brief-in-support-of-daca-program/" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration:none;" target="_blank">amicus brief</a> to the Supreme Court in opposition of the Trump administration&rsquo;s attempt to repeal DACA. The brief lamented that the end of the program would force recipients to &ldquo;withdraw to the margins of our society and national economy or return to countries that they have never called home.&rdquo;&nbsp;<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=14369" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration:none;" target="_blank">[RELATED: &nbsp;Nevada schools band together to offer free legal services to illegal immigrants]</a>]The walk-out from Hawkins&rsquo; speech was arranged by the Stanford Latinx Law Students Association (SLLSA) along with various other student groups. SLLSA member Raquel Zepeda wrote in an email to law students that the lecture was an &ldquo;intellectually cheap and morally affronting topic.&rdquo; In protest, students held posters that read, &ldquo;No human being is illegal&rdquo;, and &ldquo;Everyone is welcome here.&rdquo;<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=13889" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration:none;" target="_blank">[RELATED: &nbsp;Calif. governor gives more aid to DACA students]</a>While Hawkins spoke about both sides on DACA he mentioned that Trump&rsquo;s motion to repeal &ldquo;did not say that DACA was unworkable...it just says that DACA is unlawful.&rdquo;&ldquo;DACA is unlawful for the same reason that DAPA was unlawful, according to the fifth circuit,&rdquo; Hawkins added.Hawkins also spoke about the Obama administration not having the authority to put DACA into place as it &ldquo;confers on someone a status Congress would otherwise deny.&rdquo;In a statement, SLLSA &nbsp;and other groups said that &ldquo;purely legalistic discussions of DACA ignore the human element, which must be front and center&hellip; we can not agree to disregard the presence and importance of DREAMers in all places, including here at SLS,&rdquo; being that those who walked out did not find legality to be of importance in this aspect.&nbsp;<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=13993" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration:none;" target="_blank">[RELATED: &nbsp;Berkeley backs illegal students as SCOTUS hears DACA arguments]</a>First-year law student Zoe Packman mentioned that &ldquo;it&rsquo;s incredibly unfair that my fellow students have to face these extra burdens and then be reminded of them in school. We shouldn&rsquo;t be discussing the legality of our student population. It&rsquo;s not a valid question, there is no question here.&rdquo;&ldquo;This is fairly common&hellip; There are a lot of walkouts and this happens a lot with speakers who come to campus,&rdquo; Student and Financial Officer to the Stanford College Republicans Philip Eykamp told Campus Reform.&ldquo;We find this to be anti-intellectual and disruptive and would hope that students at Stanford would be more intellectual and engaging the issues in conversation. This talk was clearly on the legality of DACA and the speaker presented both sides of the argument. This is embarrassing, but I am not surprised that they walked out,&rdquo; Eykamp added.Follow the author of this article on Twitter: <a href="http://twitter.com/Jess_Custodio" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration:none;" target="_blank">@Jess_Custodio</a>

Students who staged a demonstration in protest of a lecture on the legality of DACA called it an  “intellectually cheap and morally affronting topic.”

Law students storm out of 'purely legalistic' DACA discussion

Various entities within the University of Utah came out in full force in support of illegal immigrant students as DACA came before the Supreme Court in November.Numerous offices at the University of Utah wrote responses to the United States Supreme Court arguments over President Donald Trump&rsquo;s decision to phase out the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program in 2017.The <a href="https://asuu.utah.edu/" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration:none;" target="_blank">Associated Students of the University of Utah (ASUU)</a> proclaimed its &ldquo;unwavering support for undocumented students (with or without DACA)&quot; in an Instagram <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/B4yE6y7hXPj/" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration:none;" target="_blank">post</a>, and encouraged students to reach out to the University of Utah&rsquo;s <a href="https://dream.utah.edu/" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration:none;" target="_blank">Dream Center</a>, which provides support for &ldquo;undocumented students and mixed-status families from college access to graduation.&quot;&nbsp;The student leadership group also recommended that &ldquo;students who are in distress&rdquo; reach out to the counseling center.&nbsp;<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=13889" style="text-decoration:none;">[RELATED: Calif. Governor gives more aid to DACA students]</a>The Dream Center also issued a <a href="https://dream.utah.edu/community_updates.php" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration:none;" target="_blank">statement</a> along with the Office of Undergraduate Studies, Student Affairs, and the Office for Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion about the Supreme Court hearings.&nbsp;&ldquo;On Tuesday, November 12, 2019, the Supreme Court of the United States will hear oral arguments regarding the future of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA),&rdquo; read the statement. &ldquo;The Justices are expected to make a decision as early as January 2020. Until the ruling is announced, current DACA recipients are still eligible to submit applications for renewal.&rdquo;&ldquo;The Dream Center at the University of Utah is here to provide resources and support for students, faculty, and staff. Students experiencing increased distress because of the pending decision can visit the University Counseling Center.&quot;The statement also listed contact information for many campus and third-party DACA supporting organizations, including the <a href="https://www.acluutah.org/immigrants-rights" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration:none;" target="_blank">ACLU of Utah</a>, and <a href="https://notifica.us/" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration:none;" target="_blank">United We Dream</a>.&nbsp;The Dream Center also advertised a safe space for students to come relax and eat donuts during the DACA hearing.<a href="https://campusreform.org/?ID=13993" style="text-decoration:none;">[RELATED: Berkeley backs illegal students as SCOTUS hears DACA Arguments]</a>&ldquo;If the Supreme Court decides that the DACA program was illegal to begin with then it will be the duty of all campus organizations to comply with the Court&rsquo;s ruling,&rdquo; University of Utah student Vincent Wetzel told Campus Reform. &ldquo;Eight in ten Americans support the DACA program, but ASUU has gone a step further by embracing illegal immigrants regardless of whether they made good-faith efforts to come out of the shadows and become legally documented through the DACA process or not,&rdquo; he explained, calling the statements &ldquo;a bridge too far.&rdquo;&nbsp;&ldquo;The University of Utah has 32,0000 students but only about 150 of these are DACA recipients. I wish that our student government cared as much about issues that affect all the students on our campus such as our parking crisis as they do about virtue signaling about this niche issue,&rdquo; said Wetzel.University of Utah Associate Director of Communications Annalisa Purser told Campus Reform that the university is &ldquo;committed to supporting Dreamers in their pursuit of education, and the U&rsquo;s Dream Center provides support and resources to undocumented students and their families.&rdquo;&ldquo;The removal of DACA could mean that many of our talented students will lose the opportunity to earn a degree and the campus will lose valuable members of its community,&rdquo; Purser added.&nbsp;Follow the author of this article on Twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/francesanne123" style="text-decoration:none;">@francesanne123</a>

University invites students to DACA donut party safe space, releases pro-illegal statement

University of California Berkeley Chancellor Carol Christ sent a university-wide email Tuesday expressing support for the public university&rsquo;s population of illegal immigrant students, and offering &ldquo;counseling services and community spaces on campus.&rdquo;The email was in anticipation of Tuesday&rsquo;s Supreme Court oral arguments for the case Department of Homeland Security v. Regents of the University of California. The subject matter of the case surrounds the Trump Administration&rsquo;s recension of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program.&nbsp;The University of California appeared before the court to argue that &ldquo;the Trump administration acted unlawfully when it decided to rescind&rdquo; the program created by executive order under former President Barack Obama.Even though oral arguments occurred this week, the court is not expected to deliver its final decision until the spring or summer 2020.<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=13889" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[RELATED: Calif. governor gives more aid to DACA students]</a>While the case is pending, Christ and the University of California-Berkeley administration is offering information on not only the case, but also the immigration process and different statuses, as well as &ldquo;support for undocumented students, academic and employment status, where to find counseling services and community spaces on campus, and more.&rdquo;Chancellor Christ also &ldquo;encourage[d] everyone, students, staff, faculty, alumni, and allies, to speak up and show support for our undocumented students and staff,&rdquo; saying that the Trump Administration marks, &ldquo;truly unprecedented times that should motivate us all to take collective action. We are open to feedback and guidance on the best ways to move this forward with compassion and growth. We invite you to join us in this effort to ensure humanity and justice are upheld for all.&rdquo;Berkeley Assistant Vice Chancellor of Public Affairs Dan Mogulof told Campus Reform that Chancellor Christ&rsquo;s statement &ldquo;aligned with policy stances and positions that have been adopted and supported by President [Janet] Napolitano and the entire UC system.&rdquo;The positions taken by the University of California system under Napolitano have been considered by many as a conflict of interest. Prior to becoming President of the UC system, Napolitano served in the Obama Administration as Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security. She was a chief architect of the DACA program that was enacted in 2012 during her tenure at DHS.&nbsp;<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=10528" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[RELATED: UC Berkeley allocating up to $800k for &#39;undocumented&#39; students]</a>&quot;Students&rsquo; largest complaint about the higher education system in the United States is rising tuition costs,&quot; &nbsp;President of Berkeley College Republicans Matt Ronnau, told Campus Reform. &quot;Yet, the University of California continues to make exorbitant commitments to illegal immigrants that go far beyond just the cost associated with the pending lawsuit against the Trump Administration and refuse to put American students first.&quot;&quot;If the UC system adopted Trump&rsquo;s &#39;America first&#39; focus when it came to their students, costs for both the school and the students would go down: a win-win situation. Unfortunately, the left-wing academics resort to virtue signaling, and students continue to pay exorbitant amounts of money in order to achieve their degree,&quot; Ronau added.&nbsp;Follow the author of this article on Twitter:&nbsp;<a href="http://twitter.com/bradleydevlin" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@bradleydevlin</a>

Berkeley backs illegal students as SCOTUS hears DACA arguments

California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) signed a <a href="https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB1645" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration:none;" target="_blank">bill</a> into law that will require California Community Colleges and the California State University system to create a &ldquo;Dreamer Resource Liaison&rdquo; for Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) students on each campus.&nbsp;The Dream Resource Liaisons will be tasked with &ldquo;streamlining access to all available financial aid, social services, state-funded immigration legal services, internships, externships, and academic opportunities.&rdquo; The new law also encourages California colleges and universities to create &ldquo;Dream Resource Centers&rdquo; to aid the liaisons and to &ldquo;create a safe and welcoming environment&rdquo; for DACA students.&nbsp;Citing President Donald Trump&rsquo;s threat to deport illegal immigrants, the bill states that providing these resources to DACA students is &ldquo;imperative.&rdquo; Under current California law, illegal immigrants already qualify for <a href="http://www.ncsl.org/research/education/undocumented-student-tuition-overview.aspx" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration:none;" target="_blank">in-state tuition</a>.&nbsp;<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=13457" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration:none;" target="_blank">[RELATED: Columbia offers illegal immigrant students free legal help, &lsquo;stress management&rsquo;]</a>Laura Metune, the vice-chancellor of governmental relations for the California Community Colleges system, <a href="https://edsource.org/2019/california-community-colleges-need-money-to-meet-new-state-law-to-help-dreamers/618623" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration:none;" target="_blank">said</a> that while she supports the new law, California&rsquo;s colleges do not have adequate funding for the bill&rsquo;s new mandates. Metune estimates the liaisons and resources will cost $2.9 million.&nbsp;&ldquo;The reality is that colleges are being mandated to implement with no new resources,&rdquo; Metune said in a statement. &ldquo;We hope, and will continue to encourage, colleges to identify existing funds or leverage philanthropic dollars to accomplish this work.&rdquo;According to <a href="https://edsource.org/2019/california-community-colleges-need-money-to-meet-new-state-law-to-help-dreamers/618623" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration:none;" target="_blank">EdSource.org,</a> 19 community colleges in California currently meet the new staff requirement. With 115 total community colleges in the California system, 96 community colleges would need to hire or select a Dreamer Resource Liaison by the 2020-2021 academic year. <a href="https://foundationccc.org/Portals/0/Documents/WhatWeDo/Equity/DreamersProject/dreamers-report-final.pdf" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration:none;" target="_blank">Eighty-two</a> community colleges in California are also currently without Dreamer resource centers. Most California State University campuses already have liaisons and resource centers for illegal immigrant students. <a href="https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billAnalysisClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB1645" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration:none;" target="_blank">Only four</a> of the CSU campuses lack resource centers.&nbsp;The University of California system is exempt from the law&rsquo;s requirements but is encouraged to comply. A spokeswoman for the UC president&rsquo;s office <a href="https://edsource.org/2019/california-community-colleges-need-money-to-meet-new-state-law-to-help-dreamers/618623" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration:none;" target="_blank">told EdSource.org</a> that all UC campuses have liaisons and resource centers.&nbsp;<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=13792" style="text-decoration:none;">[RELATED: ASU offers support groups for illegal students, &lsquo;ally&rsquo; workshops for citizens]</a>In a statement to Campus Reform, the College Republicans at CSU-Chico slammed Newsom for prioritizing illegal immigrants.&quot;Gov. Newsom and the Democrats focus their time and efforts on useless feel-good programs for illegal aliens who do not pay their fair share of taxes,&quot; the CSU College Republicans said, noting the Golden State&#39;s homeless population, which is now <a href="https://www.usich.gov/homelessness-statistics/ca/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">more than 120,000</a>, and the state&#39;s education system, which <a href="https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/california" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">ranks 21st</a> in the country.David North, a resident scholar at the Center for Immigration Studies who studies the interaction between education and migration, told Campus Reform that illegal immigrant students were being granted &ldquo;special powers&rdquo; by this law.&nbsp;&ldquo;This is one of those situations in which illegal aliens are not only treated as if they were here legally, it gives them special powers,&rdquo; North said. &quot;To the best of my knowledge, there are no Citizen Resource Liaisons in these universities.&rdquo;North added that taxpayers will be responsible for new costs.&ldquo;It will be a double blow to such students, as well as to the state&rsquo;s taxpayers,&rdquo; North said. &nbsp;<wbr style="box-sizing: inherit; color: rgb(29, 28, 29); font-family: Slack-Lato, appleLogo, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">&ldquo;The first injury is that if the Dream Resource Liaisons are to become funded, effective entities, they will divert money that might be used on campus for some other, totally legit purpose. The second blow, again assuming a strong operation, is that the illegal alien students will absorb other state resources that they had not known about prior to the creation of the Dream Resource Liaisons.&rdquo;Follow the author of this article on Twitter:&nbsp;<a href="https://twitter.com/eduneret" style="text-decoration:none;">@eduneret</a>

The bill requires public California colleges and universities to hire Dreamer Resource Liaisons.

Calif. governor gives more aid to DACA students

Tufts University joined more than 160 colleges Tuesday in filing an amicus brief to the Supreme Court in support of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), as part of an ongoing lawsuit first filed by the University of California against the Trump Administration.UC filed the suit in 2017 against the U.S Department of Homeland Security, according to <a href="https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2019/10/5/daca-amicus-brief/" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration:none;" target="_blank">The Harvard Crimson</a>. Since then, Harvard University, Yale University, Tufts and more than 160 other colleges and universities have <a href="https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/18/18-587/118023/20191003172706687_1%20-%20DACA_-_SCOTUS_Coll_Univ.pdf" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration:none;" target="_blank">filed</a> an amicus brief supporting the initiative.&ldquo;Ending the DACA program,&rdquo; the brief states, &ldquo;would send a clear message to the more than one million undocumented children in the United States that the trails amici&rsquo;s students and alumni have blazed lead nowhere and are not worth following. That message is antithetical to the commitment to equal opportunity on which this country was founded.&rdquo;Since he took office, President Donald Trump has attempted to halt the Obama-era program, but courts have blocked this action.&nbsp;<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=13704" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration:none;" target="_blank">[RELATED: EXCLUSIVE: Director of illegal alien &lsquo;university&rsquo; says nation states &lsquo;should not exist,&rsquo; citizenship is &lsquo;completely arbitrary&rsquo;]</a>Harvard has had a history of supporting DACA.&nbsp;In July 2019, Harvard President Lawrence Bacow <a href="https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2019/7/17/bacow-letter-immigration-pompeo/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">wrote a letter</a> to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and acting Homeland Security Secretary Kevin McAleenan, expressing his concern over Trump&rsquo;s attempt to end DACA. Bacow worked to bring Harvard student Ismail Ajjawari from Pakistan to the U.S. after the student was denied entry by Customs and Border Protection.Yale soon <a href="https://news.yale.edu/2019/10/04/yale-and-other-universities-file-amicus-brief-support-daca" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration:none;" target="_blank">joined</a> the brief, referencing a 2017 <a href="https://news.yale.edu/2017/08/30/president-salovey-urges-president-trump-maintain-daca-program" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration:none;" target="_blank">letter</a> President Peter Salovey sent to U.S. President Donald Trump, in which Salovey said that the nation &ldquo;should affirm that they have a future in our great country. Doing so is consistent with our longstanding values as a nation of immigrants motivated by the search for a better life.&rdquo;<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=13792" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration:none;" target="_blank">[RELATED: ASU offers support groups for illegal students, &lsquo;ally&rsquo; workshops for citizens]</a>On Oct. 8, Tufts University <a href="https://now.tufts.edu/articles/tufts-joins-amicus-brief-support-daca-recipients" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration:none;" target="_blank">joined</a> the Ivy League schools on the amicus brief.&nbsp;&ldquo;Tufts stands firmly with our DACA and undocumented students, their families, and their communities, and we are committed to honoring our promises to our DACA and undocumented students,&rdquo; Tufts President Anthony P. Monaco said in a news release. &ldquo;We will continue to provide our DACA and undocumented students an education that they have rightfully earned and deserve.&rdquo;Other prestigious universities have also joined in the amicus brief, including Brown University, Columbia University, Stanford University, Cornell University, Dartmouth College, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.&nbsp;<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=13457" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration:none;" target="_blank">[RELATED: Columbia offers illegal immigrant students free legal help, &lsquo;stress management&rsquo;]</a>The MIT College Republicans Chapter declined to comment when contacted by Campus Reform.&nbsp;The College Republican Chapters at Harvard, Yale, and Brown did not respond to requests for comment from Campus Reform in time for publication. &nbsp;Oral Arguments will be heard in the United States Supreme Court on Nov. 12.Follow the author of this article on Twitter:&nbsp;<a href="https://twitter.com/corkery_mrose" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration:none;" target="_blank">@corkery_mrose</a>

The Supreme Court will be hearing oral arguments on Nov. 12.

Tufts, Harvard, Yale endorse DACA lawsuit, tying to 'commitment to equal opportunity'

The University of Arkansas offered a course on &ldquo;The Plight of Undocumented Youth in the Trump Era,&rdquo; arguing why the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program should not have been rescinded.The non-credit course made the case to enrolled students for why President Donald Trump should not have rescinded DACA and explained the benefits of &ldquo;inclusive&rdquo; immigration policies, as well as the &ldquo;protection of undocumented youths.&rdquo; The teacher for the class, William A. Schwab, is the author of the book, Right to DREAM, which focuses on the DREAM Act and ways it can be passed, according to its <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Right-DREAM-Immigration-Reform-Americas/dp/1557286388" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration:none;" target="_blank">Amazon description.</a><a href="https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=11397" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[RELATED: University of Illinois defends new &#39;Trumpaganda&#39; course]</a>&ldquo;Taking as its focal point the Trump administration&rsquo;s decision to rescind Obama-era DACA protection, this class delves into the economic, political, and social factors that inform the public conversation about immigration,&rdquo; the course <a href="https://calendars.uark.edu/EventList.aspx?view=EventDetails&eventidn=35995&information_id=83911&type=&rss=rss" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration:none;" target="_blank">description</a> states.&nbsp;However, it then suggests that participants will learn why Trump&rsquo;s decision to rescind DACA was wrong, and how America can benefit from &ldquo;inclusive&rdquo; immigration policies.&ldquo;It makes a clear case for the many benefits of inclusive policies and the protection of undocumented youths,&rdquo; the description continues. &ldquo;This class also takes a close look at the factors that carried Donald Trump to the White House, demonstrates how economic upheaval and the issue of immigration influenced the 2016 presidential election, analyzes current immigration laws, and suggests next steps for reform.&quot;The course is part of UA&rsquo;s Osher Lifelong Learning Institute, which provides &ldquo;northwest Arkansas&rsquo; seasoned adults with a vibrant learning community that encourages adults to live well and learn forever through the hundreds of stimulating non-credit classes, programs, cultural and social events produced annually by our member-driven organization.&rdquo;The fee to take the two-hour course was $21 for members and $36 for non-members of OLLI. UA students must pay $50 to join OLLI.<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=10569" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[RELATED: SDSU offers course on removing Trump from office]</a>Clay Smith, chairman of the Arkansas Federation of College Republicans, told Campus Reform that he was surprised that the university would sponsor an event so blatantly against the president.&ldquo;I think it&rsquo;s out of character for the UofA,&rdquo; Smith said. &ldquo;In my time here, I have not seen a strong left or right bias beyond the normal slightly left bias that institutions of higher education typically have.&rdquo;Campus Reform reached out to the University of Arkansas but did not receive a response in time for publication.&nbsp;Follow the author of this article on Twitter:&nbsp;<a href="http://twitter.com/asabes10" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@asabes10</a>

Part of the course focused on why Trump's decision to rescind DACA was wrong.

UA charges students to learn why Trump rescinding DACA was wrong

Colleges and universities across the country have been singling out and rewarding illegal-status students with various programs and benefits, many of which discriminate against law-abiding citizens.Since 2015, Arizona DACA students have enjoyed cheaper Obama-era &ldquo;in-state&rdquo; tuition rates, but last week, the state&rsquo;s Supreme Court&nbsp;<a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/arizona-supreme-court-no-state-tuition-daca-college-students-n864106" style="text-decoration:none;">ruled</a> that DACA recipients must pay out-of-state tuition rates, affecting at least&nbsp;<a href="https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/politics/arizona-education/2018/04/09/arizona-supreme-court-dreamers-cant-receive-state-tuition-daca/500141002/?csp=chromepush" style="text-decoration:none;">2,000 currently enrolled DACA students</a>.&nbsp;As a student at a public university in Arizona, this issue hits close to home. While education funding is a nationwide issue, it is especially concerning in Arizona where&nbsp;<a href="https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/arizona-education/2018/04/05/tuition-increases-arizonas-universities-get-ok-board-regents/488139002/" style="text-decoration:none;">tuition continues to increase</a> every year.<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=9383" style="text-decoration:none;">[RELATED: AZ Regents ignore court, affirm in-state tuition for illegals]</a>While I empathize with the sentiment that Dreamers should be entitled to public subsidized education based on the length of their residence in America, I find it difficult to prioritize it over other salient problems that arise from this policy.Providing dreamers with in-state tuition is not only fiscally irresponsible, but unfair to the various other students that seek an education in the state of Arizona. With public education funding diminishing, it&rsquo;s hard to justify subsidizing tuition for illegal students while raising it for others.&nbsp;Arizona&rsquo;s education system is notoriously&nbsp;<a href="https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/rankings/education" style="text-decoration:none;">below-average</a>, and funding will only decrease if that legacy continues. If Arizona allows dreamers in-state tuition, the money would be channeled away from legal students at the detriment to their education.&nbsp;This is not only unfair to Arizona students, but international students as well. Compared to other demographics, international students pay a substantially&nbsp;<a href="https://financialaid.arizona.edu/cost/freshmen" style="text-decoration:none;">higher college tuition</a> rate. These are students who went through the arduous process of entering the US legally, but they are faced with a disadvantage that undermines that legal process.&nbsp;International students should be angered that dreamers benefit from in-state tuition while they had to jump through many hoops to receive the same education. &nbsp;<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=9446" style="text-decoration:none;">[RELATED: Maine offers in-state tuition to illegal immigrants statewide]</a>Legal-status and international students are not the only ones who will benefit from the state supreme court decision. Arizona taxpayers will benefit from the money that will be freed up in the state education budget for resident students, ad the ruling will also incentivize the state legislature and the Board of Regents to maintain current in-state tuition rates for residents, since more money will be freed up to subsidize those students.While our immigration system needs reform, we cannot put those with illegal status on a pedestal at the expense of law-abiding citizens. Our institutions of higher education should be setting a better precedent. Kudos to the Arizona Supreme Court for paving the way.&nbsp;Follow the author of this article on Twitter:&nbsp;<a href="http://www.twitter.com/shannadnelson" style="text-decoration:none;">@shannadnelson</a>

AZ sides with citizens, ends in-state tuition for DACA students

Brown University officials have announced plans to offer illegal immigrant students a &ldquo;tuition-free&rdquo; Master&#39;s Degree should the federal government decide to repeal DACA.&nbsp;The new program would be available for any 2018 graduate as a one-year extension to their time at Brown, and would come with university-subsidized health insurance and a stipend, according to&nbsp;<a href="http://today.brown.edu/archive.php?id=104272" style="text-decoration:none;">a statement</a> by Provost Richard Locke.&nbsp;<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=10582" style="text-decoration:none;">[RELATED: New scholarship to hand out $20 million to DACA students]&nbsp;</a>In the event that DACA is repealed, the university has also vowed to offer &ldquo;in-school and post-graduate opportunities for students unable to work legally to engage in stipend-supported research and education that is not citizenship-dependent.&rdquo;While the program remains in limbo, the elite school says it will continue to support DACA students through its existing initiatives, such as covering the cost of DACA renewal application fees, providing grant money to pay for legal representation, and creating extra institutional scholarships for students whose work authorization expires.&ldquo;It is our hope that through these efforts, the university will continue to support academic development and achievement while Congress works to address essential immigration reform,&rdquo; Locke concludes.&nbsp;<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=10461" style="text-decoration:none;">[RELATED: University launches &lsquo;dream fund&rsquo; to help DACA students]&nbsp;</a>In September 2017, university officials issued a&nbsp;<a href="https://news.brown.edu/articles/2017/09/daca-0905" style="text-decoration:none;">press release</a> condemning efforts to repeal DACA and affirming their support for undocumented students.&nbsp;&ldquo;Ending the protections DACA has granted to so many high-achieving and promising individuals is wrong. It is shortsighted and in direct and flagrant conflict with this nation&rsquo;s commitment to education,&rdquo; the statement argued, vowing not to cooperate with law enforcement officials unless they have a subpoena.&nbsp;&ldquo;Brown will do everything legally possible to protect our students, faculty, and staff, and to ensure that all members of our community know they are highly valued for the richness they contribute to Brown,&rdquo; it concluded.&nbsp;Campus Reform reached out to university for information on how the new program will be funded, but Media Officer Brian Clark declined to comment.&nbsp;Follow the author of this article on Twitter:&nbsp;<a href="http://www.twitter.com/Toni_Airaksinen" style="text-decoration:none;">@Toni_Airaksinen</a>

Brown promises ‘tuition-free’ Master's for DACA students

The University of California, Los Angeles hosted a forum Monday on empowering illegal immigrant students and pressuring lawmakers to make the DACA program permanent.The event titled &ldquo;Immigration Forum: Students Speak Out!&rdquo; took place Monday and featured several guest lecturers, including elected officials, who led the roughly 300 audience members in chants of &ldquo;This is what democracy looks like,&rdquo; &ldquo;Student power,&rdquo; and more, <a href="http://dailybruin.com/2018/03/06/labor-and-workplace-studies-class-hosts-forum-on-issues-immigrants-face/" style="text-decoration:none;">The Daily Bruin reported</a>.&nbsp;<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=10582" style="text-decoration:none;">[RELATED: New scholarship to hand out $20 million to DACA students]</a>According to the publication, the main organizers of the event were the students of the labor and workplace studies class that primarily focuses on examining issues related to the immigration rights movement, though <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/1917012651946509/?active_tab=about" style="text-decoration:none;">a Facebook event page</a> indicates that the UCLA Institute for Research on Labor and Employment (IRLE) and three other departments also collaborated on the event.The UCLA Labor Center advertised the event in late February, <a href="https://twitter.com/UCLALabor/status/969015973238984704" style="text-decoration:none;">tweeting</a> a short promotional video for the forum on the &ldquo;current state of #DACA and the future of #UndocumentedImmigrants living in the United States.&rdquo;The Labor Center, as well as its project the &ldquo;Dream Resource Center,&rdquo; also tweeted updates throughout the event, posting videos of various activities and lectures that were presented during the forum.&nbsp;<img src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/campusreform/10606/UCLADACAEvent1.jpg" style="width: 500px;" class="fr-fic fr-dib">&ldquo;Immigrants add value in so many ways to the communities where they live, work, and study,&rdquo; the IRLE <a href="https://twitter.com/uclairle/status/970830086185332736" style="text-decoration:none;">tweeted</a> Monday. &ldquo;Today, thousands of Dreamers and allies are calling on our leaders to defend DACA. #UndocumentedUnafraid.&rdquo;&ldquo;DACA recipients have contributed billions of dollars to the U.S. economy by bringing our skills and talents to the American workforce, helping to create jobs and raise wages for native-born workers along the way,&rdquo; the institute wrote in <a href="https://twitter.com/uclairle/status/970831341133729794" style="text-decoration:none;">another tweet.</a>&nbsp;<img src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/campusreform/10606/UCLADACAEvent2.jpg" style="width: 500px;" class="fr-fic fr-dib">According to the Bruin, Kent Wong, director of the UCLA Labor Center, praised the instructor who spearheaded the event, Maria Ignacia Rodriguez, noting that she was one of the first undocumented student graduates of the UCLA School of Law.&nbsp;Wong also explained that the timing of the forum is intended to coincide with the Trump administration&rsquo;s promise to end DACA by early March.&ldquo;This day&hellip;was the day Donald Trump hoped to kill DACA and crush the dreams of 700,000 DACA youth across the country,&rdquo; Wong told the newspaper. &ldquo;We are here today to tell him he will never crush those dreams.&rdquo;<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=10498" style="text-decoration:none;">[RELATED: UCLA students pay $2M+ per year in &#39;social justice&#39; fees]</a>Also present for the event were several elected officials, including the author of the California Dream Act, Gilbert Cedillo, and former Obama administration Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis, both of whom encouraged attendees to follow up their words with action by supporting Democratic candidates in local and national elections.&ldquo;We have to be strategic: Elections matter,&rdquo; Cedillo said, according to the Bruin. &ldquo;I&rsquo;m all for protests, but I&rsquo;m also for winning elections because those votes count the most.&rdquo;Solis, meanwhile, told the audience that &ldquo;what President Trump wanted to do was wipe us all off,&rdquo; saying &ldquo;the solution is going to be that we continue to advocate for having our voices heard and demonstrating the power we all have.&rdquo;Follow this author on Facebook: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/vladimirovnikitav" style="text-decoration:none;">Nikita Vladimirov</a> and Twitter:&nbsp;<a href="http://www.twitter.com/nikvofficial" style="text-decoration:none;">@nikvofficial</a>

UCLA hosts ‘Undocumented Unafraid’ forum for DACA supporters

Southern New Hampshire University and two other organizations are spearheading a program that will provide $20 million in scholarships to illegal immigrant students.<a href="https://www.snhu.edu/about-us/news-and-events/2018/03/dreamers" style="text-decoration:none;">According to the university</a>, the school is partnering with <a href="https://theshapirofoundation.org/" style="text-decoration:none;">The Shapiro Foundation</a> and <a href="http://www.thedream.us/" style="text-decoration:none;">TheDream.US</a> in an effort to provide full-ride scholarships to 1,000 Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) students over the next five years.Paul LeBlanc, the president of the SNHU, said that the university is &ldquo;in the business of hope,&rdquo; voicing his support for the &ldquo;talent and drive&rdquo; exhibited by DACA students.<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=10436" style="text-decoration:none;">[RELATED: Cuomo plans to extend NY free tuition program to &#39;Dreamers&#39;]</a>&quot;As an institution of higher education, we are in the business of hope,&rdquo; LeBlanc said. &ldquo;We have hundreds of thousands of young people who have known no country but the US, but that are denied the financial support that gives them access to higher education.&quot;<a href="https://studentaid.ed.gov/sa/sites/default/files/financial-aid-and-undocumented-students.pdf">According to the Department of Education</a>, &quot;undocumented students,&quot; including DACA recipients, are not eligible for federal financial aid, though they may qualify for assistance from their state or college.&ldquo;As a society, we can&#39;t afford to squander their talent and drive,&quot; LeBlanc continued. &quot;Among them might be the next brilliant scientist, general, community leader, inventor, or entrepreneur. We must give them the tools to realize their potential.&quot;<a href="http://go.collegeforamerica.org/dreamers" style="text-decoration:none;">The official website</a> of the initiative explains that applicants must be in the process of renewing or are currently applying for DACA or Temporary Protected Status (TPS) authorization in order to be eligible for the scholarships.<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=10461" style="text-decoration:none;">[RELATED: University launches &lsquo;dream fund&rsquo; for DACA students]</a>According to the university, the project will provide illegal immigrant students an opportunity to &ldquo;develop valuable skills and knowledge by working on creative real-world projects,&rdquo; and earn an associate and bachelor&rsquo;s degree &ldquo;by mastering defined skills/competencies, setting your pace, and accelerating through material you already know.&rdquo;The university also announced that it will work with smaller community-based partners, including <a href="https://www.matchbeyond.org/" style="text-decoration:none;">Match Beyond</a> in Massachusetts and the Texas-based <a href="http://idea-u.org/" style="text-decoration:none;">IDEA-U</a>, to provide students with additional coaching and advising.&ldquo;NHU&#39;s competency-based program combined with the supports provided by the community partner is particularly well suited to DACA students,&rdquo; the school explained in its news report. &ldquo;Competency-based education provides flexibility for students who often work and support their families, while the wrap around services provided by an on-the-ground community partner provide much needed support.&rdquo;<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=10384" style="text-decoration:none;">[RELATED: Jeff Bezos donates $33 million for DACA scholarships]</a>The Shapiro Foundation and TheDream.US both welcomed the new initiative, arguing that their partnership with the university will ensure that the project succeeds.&ldquo;In my recently-launched philanthropic career, the ability to invest in Dreamers through the amazing program created by SNHU is the best investment I&#39;ve found to date,&rdquo; said Ed Shapiro, a Trustee of The Shapiro Foundation. &ldquo;I&#39;m confident these 1,000 young people will have an incredible impact on our nation.&quot;Don Graham, the Co-Founder of TheDream.US, also praised the project, saying that &quot;through this partnership with SNHU, we will be able to serve the many DREAMers who do not have the option of attending a traditional on-campus college.&ldquo;These DREAMers work, have families, and simply do not have the resources nor flexibility to adjust their lives to a traditional college calendar,&rdquo; he continued. &ldquo;And yet, they want nothing more than to get a college education so they can better support themselves, their families, and their communities.&quot;Follow this author on Facebook: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/vladimirovnikitav" style="text-decoration:none;">Nikita Vladimirov</a> and Twitter:&nbsp;<a href="http://www.twitter.com/nikvofficial" style="text-decoration:none;">@nikvofficial</a>

New scholarship to hand out $20 million to DACA students

The University of Minnesota is now soliciting donations from students and staff to help support illegal immigrant students with &ldquo;at risk&rdquo; legal status.
The new scholarship fund, known as &ldquo;<a href="http://immigration.umn.edu/take-action/dream-fund">The Dream Fund</a>,&rdquo; is managed by the university&rsquo;s Immigration Response team, which launched the program &ldquo;to help students whose ability to pay for college may be affected by their legal status.&rdquo;
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According to The Dream Fund&rsquo;s website, members of the university community are asked to &ldquo;please consider a contribution,&rdquo; noting that the funds will &ldquo;provide financial assistance for housing, groceries, books, medical or dental care or other extenuating emergencies.&rdquo;
&ldquo;The fund will be available to undocumented students, students with Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, and students whose Temporary Protected Status has ended,&rdquo; the website notes.
The university told Campus Reform that the fund &ldquo;is in response to requests from private individuals wanting to help students in financial hardship due to circumstances out of their control.&rdquo;
<a href="../?ID=10384">[RELATED: Jeff Bezos donates $33 million for DACA scholarships]</a>
&ldquo;No university dollars are going to this fund, and it is modeled after other funds at public universities created for the same purpose such as the University of Utah, Western Michigan University and University of Nebraska Omaha,&rdquo; the university elaborated.
Applicants for the scholarship will be required to prove that they are undergoing financial hardship stemming from immigration related complications. &nbsp;
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A university spokesperson told Campus Reform that the fund is actually modeled off of several other schools that have started similar programs.

University launches 'dream fund' to help DACA students

Some individuals resorted to threats and vandalism when the University of Washington College Republicans hosted an event discussing the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program.
Members of UWCR hosted a &ldquo;<a href="https://www.facebook.com/CollegeRepublicansUW/posts/1516050288501949">DACA booth</a>&rdquo; on January 12, sitting behind a table on campus with a sign reading, &ldquo;I Oppose DACA, Change My Mind,&rdquo; along with a banner advertising the College Republicans.
Chevy Swanson, the President of UWCR, told Campus Reform that the event was designed to generate a discussion and advertise the club.
&ldquo;The point is to advertise the club by saying, &lsquo;hey, we are the College Republicans and this is something we believe, come ask us why,&rsquo; but it&rsquo;s also there so that we can actually talk with students who don't know the issues well, or don't know both sides of the issues well,&rdquo; Swanson told Campus Reform. &ldquo;It&rsquo;s like a very lighthearted public debate meant to get our name and our ideas out there in a respectable way that doesn't get in anyone's face.&rdquo;
<a href="../?ID=10384">[RELATED: Jeff Bezos donates $33 million for DACA scholarships]</a>
For some, however, the event represented far more than a thoughtful discussion.
&ldquo;The UW College Republicans are on their fascist bulls**t again,&rdquo; UW student Antonio Alvarado, who <a href="https://twitter.com/Antonio_IA7">describes himself</a>&nbsp;as a 21 year-old disabled Mexican communist, <a href="https://twitter.com/Antonio_IA7/status/951904213172285440">tweeted</a>, alongside pictures of the DACA booth.
&ldquo;Banner in front of the HUB reads: I OPPOSE DACA CHANGE MY MIND If any white, documented, abled, or other privileged folks are available rn, shut these motherf***ers down!!!&rdquo; Alvarado&rsquo;s tweet concludes.
Minutes after Alvarado&rsquo;s tweet, UWCR&nbsp;<a href="https://www.facebook.com/CollegeRepublicansUW/photos/a.186085534831771.41254.171403456299979/1516156511824660/?type=3">posted a photo</a> of their College Republicans poster slashed to shreds, writing, &ldquo;Sorry UW Liberals, but this doesn't count as &lsquo;thoughtful discussion.&rsquo;&rdquo;
Alvarado later&nbsp;<a href="https://twitter.com/Antonio_IA7/status/951947080876023809">responded to his first tweet</a>, writing, &ldquo;Oh they've been gone for a minute by now but next time they try some s**t...&rdquo;
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&ldquo;Someone came up and cut one of our signs with a boxcutter according to one of our members who was there,&rdquo; Swanson confirmed to Campus Reform. &ldquo;We also noticed that one of the officers of the UW MEChA club posted on Twitter a call for someone to come &lsquo;shut us down&rsquo;, which was obviously done by whoever destroyed our decoration.&rdquo;
&ldquo;Unfortunately, our event was violently interrupted by two leftist agitators,&rdquo; confirmed Armen Tooloee, a UWCR member helping to run the event at the time. &ldquo;One of the two distracted us while the other ran up and slashed our banner with a boxcutter.&rdquo;
Movimiento Estudiantil Chicanx de Aztl&aacute;n at the University of Washington (MEChA de UW), describes itself on its&nbsp;<a href="https://www.facebook.com/pg/mechadeuwseattle/about/?ref=page_internal">Facebook page</a> as &ldquo;a student organization that promotes higher education, cultura, &amp; historia,&rdquo; and <a href="http://students.washington.edu/mecha/leadership.html">the group&rsquo;s website</a> lists Alvarado as one of its officers.
In&nbsp;<a href="https://www.facebook.com/CollegeRepublicansUW/photos/a.186085534831771.41254.171403456299979/1516165015157143/?type=3&amp;theater">a photo</a> posted by UWCR on its Facebook page, MEChA de UW is shown retweeting Alvarado&rsquo;s tweet calling the DACA booth &ldquo;fascist bulls**t.&rdquo;
<img src="../img/CROBlog/10412/UW%20DACA%20Tweet.png" alt="" width="599" height="327" />
Swanson proceeded to report the vandalism and threats to the UW administration, and received a response from Denzil Suite, UW Vice President for Student Life.
&ldquo;Hello Mr. Swanson, Thank you for bringing this to my attention. I am glad that no one was physically injured,&rdquo; Suite wrote in&nbsp;<a href="https://www.facebook.com/CollegeRepublicansUW/posts/1519527841487527">an email</a>, adding, &ldquo;The call to action you mention, while provocative, would constitute protected speech, in the same manner as your events.
&ldquo;That said, I do find the willful destruction of your property to be unacceptable,&rdquo; Suite continued, encouraging Swanson to file a police report and clarifying that &ldquo;If the perpetrator of this act is found to be a student, that individual will be subject to action under the Code of Student Conduct.&rdquo;
<a href="../?ID=10211">[RELATED: VIDEO: Campus cops defend vandalism, destruction of property]</a>
However, Swanson asserted that the school didn&rsquo;t respond forcefully enough.
&ldquo;I think this response is very weak,&rdquo; Swanson told Campus Reform, complaining that &ldquo;the school acted like it was some sort of joke.&rdquo;
Campus Reform reached out to Alvarado and MEChA de UW, but did not receive a response in time for publication.
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College Republicans' DACA event threatened, vandalized at UW

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos recently donated millions of dollars to TheDream.US, a national scholarship fund for illegal immigrant students.
The billionaire owner of The Washington Post and his wife donated $33 million to the group, which supports DACA recipients, marking the largest donation in the organization's history.
&ldquo;MacKenzie and I are honored to be able to help today&rsquo;s Dreamers by funding these scholarships,&rdquo; Bezos remarked in a <a href="http://www.thedream.us/news/bezosgrant/">press release</a>, which noted that his donation will &ldquo;fund 1,000 college scholarships for Dreamers.&rdquo;
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&ldquo;He landed in this country alone and unable to speak English,&rdquo; Bezos continued, speaking of his father who immigrated to the U.S. when he was 16. &ldquo;With a lot of grit and determination&mdash;and the help of some remarkable organizations in Delaware&mdash;my dad became an outstanding citizen, and he continues to give back to the country that he feels blessed him in so many ways.&rdquo;
<a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2018/01/12/jeff-bezos-and-8-other-ceos-are-speaking-up-for-dreamers.html">According to CNBC</a>, Bezos joined 100 other business leaders in sending a letter in support of DACA to congressional leaders, with Tim Cook of Apple, Satya Nadella of Microsoft, Sundar Pichai of Google, and Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook also signing their names to letter.
&ldquo;We write to urge Congress to act immediately and pass a permanent bipartisan legislative solution to enable Dreamers who are currently living, working, and contributing to our communities to continue doing so,&rdquo; the <a href="https://www.scribd.com/document/368868708/Letter-from-corporate-leaders-to-Congress-act-immediately-and-pass-a-permanent-bipartisan-legislative-solution-for-DACA#from_embed">letter</a> states. &ldquo;The imminent termination of the DACA program is creating an impending crisis for workforces across the country.&rdquo;
TheDream.US offers two <a href="http://www.thedream.us/scholarships/">scholarships</a>&mdash;one that provides up to $80,000 for a bachelor&rsquo;s degree and another that awards between $14,500 and $29,000 for those who have already completed an associates degree program.
The organization&rsquo;s National Scholarship is offered to individuals with DACA or Temporary Protected Status (TPS) who have graduated high school or community college, while its Opportunity Scholarship is specifically for individuals who &ldquo;live in targeted, locked-out states that do not offer in-state tuition to DREAMers.&rdquo;
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In addition to its scholarships, TheDream.US <a href="http://www.thedream.us/about-us/partner-colleges/">partners</a> with colleges and universities &ldquo;that are committed to serving and graduating DREAMers,&rdquo; with partner institutions providing DACA recipients with a &ldquo;designated Scholar Advisor&rdquo; for &ldquo;support and assistance to address all of the emotional, lifestyle, and financial challenges that may prevent our Scholars from completing college.&rdquo;
Some of the <a href="http://www.thedream.us/about-us/partner-colleges/">partner institutions</a> include Arizona State University, California State University, Colorado State University, the University of Central Florida, Rutgers University, Texas A&amp;M University, and George Mason University.
A recent <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/video/2017/09/20/jeff-bezos-ranks-last-in-charitable-giving-among-top-10-billionaires-in-us.html">report</a> from The Chronicle of Philanthropy ranked Bezos tenth for charitable giving among billionaires in the United States, <a href="https://www.philanthropy.com/search?q=Bezos&amp;page=1">listing</a> well over $200 million in donations to higher education that Bezos has made in recent years.
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The donation is the largest ever received by TheDream.US, and according to Bezos will "fund 1,000 college scholarships for Dreamers."

Jeff Bezos donates $33 million for DACA scholarships

Detained University of California, Berkeley student Luis Mora&rsquo;s lawyer is waging a social media crusade in defense of her client while he awaits a hearing on immigration charges.
As Campus Reform previously reported, Mora was apprehended by immigration enforcement agents on December 30 because he did not meet the criteria for President Obama&rsquo;s DACA program.
<a href="../?ID=10334">[RELATED: Immigration officials take UC-Berkeley student into custody]</a>
Mora was reportedly taken to Otay Mesa Detention Center, where he is awaiting a January 17 bond hearing and has been connected with pro-bono immigration lawyer Prerna Lal, who also happens to work at UC Berkeley as a lecturer and <a href="https://undocu.berkeley.edu/haas-dreamers-resource-center/meet-our-staff/">provides</a> legal assistance to its immigrant population.
An expert in creating social media campaigns to derail the deportation of young illegal immigrants, Lal has successfully lobbied UC Berkeley Chancellor Carol Christ to issue a statement in support of her client.
The&nbsp;<a href="http://news.berkeley.edu/2018/01/08/a-statement-from-chancellor-christ-on-student-detained-by-immigration-authorities/">statement</a> noted that the school is ensuring Mora has &ldquo;access to legal advice, attorney services, and other resources,&rdquo; while informing students of &nbsp;&ldquo;the opportunity they have to donate to the&nbsp;<a href="https://www.youcaring.com/luismora-1059340">bail fund</a>&rdquo; for Mora.
<a href="../?ID=7230">[RELATED: UC system allots $5M in aid to illegals, legal immigrants not eligible]</a>
The school&rsquo;s lawyer did, however, refuse to allow the university to pay Mora&rsquo;s bail over fear of legal action, prompting Lal to <a href="https://twitter.com/prernaplal/status/950369754828517376">tweet</a>, &ldquo;But it&rsquo;s okay to pay $600K for security of white supremacists who come to our campus to incite hate and violence.&rdquo;
The previous day, notably, she had tweeted that Mora &ldquo;doesn&rsquo;t have #DACA because he came here in 2009, a little after the cut-off date for DACA.&rdquo;
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&ldquo;I have asked our government relations staff to work with our friends and allies in Sacramento and Washington, D.C., some of whom have issued statements advocating for our student&rsquo;s release,&rdquo; Christ&rsquo;s statement added, and, according to Lal, Senator Kamala Harris, Senator Dianne Feinstein, and Representative Barbara Lee have offered their support.
Apart from Christ&rsquo;s statement, Lal claims that she has received little support from the university, complaining that <a href="https://twitter.com/prernaplal/status/949815829985546240">her salary is too low</a> and that staff who work with illegal immigrant students <a href="https://twitter.com/prernaplal/status/949543819116072961">lack sufficient office space</a>.
In one tweet, she&nbsp;<a>claimed</a> that she is a &ldquo;survivor of human trafficking&rdquo; because her pay for part-time lecturing is so low, later expressing fear that the university will&nbsp;<a href="https://twitter.com/prernaplal/status/949818104883822592">fire her</a> for her critical tweets.
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In <a href="https://twitter.com/prernaplal/status/950383696086904833">another recent&nbsp;tweet</a>, Lal wished a &ldquo;good morning&rdquo; to &ldquo;everyone except ICE aka the gestapo, and the Nazis serving in the current Administration.&rdquo;
Campus Reform reached out to Lal for comment on the matter, and is currently awaiting a response.
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Attorney for detained student admits he 'doesn't have DACA'

The University of Connecticut&rsquo;s president recently admitted in a legal affidavit that her school will &ldquo;lose tuition revenue&rdquo; in the event that DACA is cancelled.
<a href="http://www.courant.com/politics/hc-pol-uconn-cscu-daca-lawsuit-20171106-story.html">According to The Hartford Courant</a>, UConn recently joined other state universities in a lawsuit against President Trump over his decision to end the Obama-era Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), with UConn President Susan Herbst writing in an affidavit that &ldquo;UConn will lose the tuition revenue&rdquo; from DACA students who are forced to withdraw, leave the university, or face deportation.
<a href="../?ID=9763">[RELATED: California to provide $30 million to DACA students]</a>
&ldquo;If DACA students are deported, forced to withdraw, or leave the university, UConn will lose the tuition revenue that these students contribute,&rdquo; she wrote, saying, &ldquo;this is a significant impact on the university.&rdquo;
<a href="https://www.uscis.gov/sites/default/files/USCIS/Resources/Reports%20and%20Studies/Immigration%20Forms%20Data/All%20Form%20Types/DACA/daca_performancedata_fy2017_qtr2.pdf">According to U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services</a>, Connecticut has nearly 11,000 DACA enrollees, while the nation has nearly 788,000, though it&rsquo;s unknown precisely how many are currently enrolled in institutions of higher education.
Washington, North Carolina, and Oregon, however, all expressed similar concerns about lost tuition revenue in statements <a href="https://www.scribd.com/document/358203364/New-York-Et-Al-v-Trump-Et-Al-17cv5228#from_embed">included in the lawsuit</a>, saying that repealing DACA would &ldquo;damage the educational mission of [Washington&rsquo;s, North Carolina&rsquo;s, and Oregon&rsquo;s] institutions of higher education and affect their tuition revenues.&rdquo;
Such comments echo the concerns expressed by university presidents in other contexts, as well, such as the University of California System&rsquo;s Janet Napolitano, who <a href="http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-uc-daca-lawsuit-20170908-story.html">sued</a> the Trump administration for similar reasons.
<a href="../?ID=9804">[RELATED: 'Dreamers' sue Trump over DACA, allege 'bias against Mexicans']</a>
Her <a href="http://universityofcalifornia.edu/sites/default/files/UC-DACA-Complaint.pdf">lawsuit</a> likewise expressed apprehensions about losing &ldquo;the benefits it derives from their (DACA students) contributions.&rdquo;
&ldquo;If these students leave the University before completing their education, UC will lose the benefits it derives from their contributions, as well as the value of the time and money it invested in these students with the expectation that they would be allowed to graduate and apply their talents in the United States job market,&rdquo; the UC lawsuit states.
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University of Connecticut President Susan Herbst recently explained that the school fears losing tuition revenue if President Trump follows through on repealing DACA.

DACA lawsuits show universities fear loss of tuition revenue

Six &ldquo;Dreamers&rdquo; have filed a lawsuit challenging President Trump&rsquo;s move to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program.
<a href="../?ID=9735">[RELATED: Obama's DHS Secretary thinks Trump can't rescind DACA]</a>
&ldquo;This lawsuit gives Dreamers&mdash;the people most affected by the unconstitutional decision to end DACA&mdash;an opportunity to tell their own story and demand fairness from their government,&rdquo; Public Counsel, a law firm representing the plaintiffs, <a>wrote on its website</a>.
&ldquo;Public Counsel is honored to represent these fierce and resilient young people in their pursuit of justice!&rdquo; the firm added.
According the <a href="http://www.publiccounsel.org/tools/assets/files/0923.pdf">firm&rsquo;s press release</a>, the lawsuit was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California and claims that the federal government &ldquo;perpetrated a cruel bait and switch&rdquo; by asking illegal immigrants &ldquo;to identify themselves in exchange for the protection to live and work in the United States.&rdquo;
<a href="../?ID=9731">[RELATED: UGA prof calls Trump, Sessions 'racists' for repealing DACA]</a>
&ldquo;The decision to end the DACA program is a broken promise and an unprecedented violation of the constitutional rights of Plaintiffs and other young people who relied on the federal government to honor that promise,&rdquo; <a href="http://www.publiccounsel.org/tools/assets/files/0922.pdf">the lawsuit</a> argues.
&ldquo;This cruel bait and switch, which was motivated by unconstitutional bias against Mexicans and Latinos, violates the equal protection component of the Fifth Amendment, the due process rights of Plaintiffs and other DACA recipients, and federal law, including the Administrative Procedure Act,&rdquo; it adds provocatively.
According to Public Counsel, the &ldquo;Dreamers case&rdquo; is &ldquo;the first lawsuit from DACA beneficiaries, each of whom would face potentially devastating consequences from the termination of DACA.&rdquo;
The lawsuit also takes a jab at Trump&rsquo;s political communication strategies, arguing that the president has &ldquo;a history of tweets, campaign speeches, debate responses, and other statements alleging that Mexican and Latino immigrants are rapists, criminals, and otherwise bad people.&rdquo;
<a href="../?ID=9763">[RELATED: California to provide $30 million to DACA students]</a>
&ldquo;Moreover, shortly before terminating DACA, President Trump pardoned former Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio for a criminal contempt of court conviction related to Sheriff Arpaio&rsquo;s discriminatory practices against Latinos, asserting that the Sheriff had been convicted of contempt merely for &lsquo;doing his job,&rsquo;&rdquo; the lawyers noted.
Additionally, the document maintains that Trump&rsquo;s statements, &ldquo;including the termination of the DACA program, appealed to voters who harbor hostility toward Mexican and Latino immigrants.&rdquo;
The lawsuit is one of the latest legal challenges to the White House policy on DACA that has been widely condemned by numerous universities and student groups around the county. Earlier in September, the University of California also <a href="../?ID=9735">filed a lawsuit</a> against Trump, calling his decision &ldquo;capricious&rdquo; and unconstitutional. &nbsp;
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