The Board of Regents has finally reversed the ban on these students. I never imagined this level of support when I started this but you all proved that simple persistence can move mountains. Please keep looking out for one another as we move forward.
May 14, 2016
Final supporters
To President Jere Morehead:
We, the students, faculty, staff, and alumni of the University of Georgia, oppose the University System of Georgia’s Board of Regents Policy 4.1.6 and Policy 4.3.4, banning undocumented students from our university and the other top four universities in the state, and denying them in-state tuition benefits at other USG institutions, respectively. The admissions ban at UGA has formally re-segregated higher education in Georgia for its fifth academic year. Banishing Georgia's high school graduates to separate and unequal educational facilities damages Georgia’s economic engine, squanders talent, and tarnishes our university’s and state’s reputations. The long-term economic and ethical costs of discrimination are immense. Georgia is missing out on an estimated $10 million in new tax revenue per year by disqualifying academically-eligible Georgians from discounted in-state tuition, and has failed to capitalize on the average $8,406 per year that is spent on a Georgia student’s K-12 education. Undocumented Georgians alone paid more than $352 million in state and local taxes in 2012; should they not be able to reap the rewards of their tax dollars? Please express your public opposition to the ban on undocumented Georgians and their exclusion from in-state tuition benefits, and use your power as the top official at our university to create positive change on our campus and in our state. Georgia must desegregate its universities by rescinding the admissions ban and charging undocumented graduates of Georgia high schools in-state tuition.
Updates
Reached 250 supporters
April 14, 2016
Reached 100 supporters
April 6, 2016
91 Comments
President Morehead, I'm ashamed to have to tell people I graduated from a university that excludes people based on their place of birth. I can assure you that you won't be receiving any donations from me as long as this discrimination continues.
As a current student of University of Georgia, I am appalled by the polices of Georgia's Board of Regents that promote segregation and discrimination in the state of Georgia. As one of the top universities in Georgia, UGA should serve as a model for all the other universities and make the change, because access to education should be open to everyone!
As an graduate of UGA and a retired faculty member, I encourage you to use the influence of yout office and out great university to actively seek the end of this ban. The continuation of this policy has far reaching economic and ethical costs. Thank you
I am a honors student and employee at the University of Georgia. Education, including higher education, is essential and should be accessible to all. I stand with the undocumented students and allies in opposing policies 4.1.6 and 4.3.4 that cause desegregation in our schools.
As a 2006 alumna and Foundation Fellow, I encourage President Morehead to stand courageously for equal access to education based on academic merit, not social status. President Morehead has the power to enact the values of justice and equality he championed for years as a mentor to myself and countless other alumni. It is never too late to do the right thing.
According to the New York Post’s story, Hunter Biden in 2015 introduced his Father, then VP in the Obama Administration, to a Top Exec Vadym Pozharskyi at Ukrainian Burisma Holdings Ltd after Hunter joined the company’s board which was Paying him up to $83,000 a Month. The insinuation is that Hunter Successfully Influenced his Father to Pressure Ukraine Government officials “into Firing the Prosecutor Viktor Shokin, who was Investigating Corruption against Burisma. Facebook and Twitter took action to limit distribution (censored) the New York Post story citing Emails purportedly Revealing Evidence of Influence-Peddling by Joe Biden’s son Hunter Biden. The Emails were obtained from a Laptop which had a sticker from the Beau Biden Foundation, and had been Abandoned at Computer-Repair Shop, named “The Mac Shop” in Wilmington, Delaware and owned by John Paul Mac Isaac, who then reported the laptop’s contents to authorities which determined that the laptop and hard drive contain fruits of criminal activity. Joe Biden and his family engaged in "Legal Corruption" despite claims of no wrongdoing and the Liberal Main Stream Media Refuses to Talk and will never Report about Hunter Biden’s laptop and emails, fearing Democratic Presidential Nominee Joe Biden will Lose the 2020 Election if this information is exposed to the American People. This is evidence that Joe Biden participated in his Family’s CASH-for-Influence Scheme with Shady Foreign Companies. The American People should be demanding that the Media investigate this scandal before they VOTE, but we know, the Media will never report on Hunter Biden’s emails because it would be harmful to Joe Biden.
Equal is equal. What more need be said? Please free our state from anti-immigrant discrimination against youth born or brought to the USA from violent and gender based hatreds; and to free them from lands of the drug lords created during the Reagan and Bush administrations. Please, Freedom is Freedom. If we give into anti-American legislation then we lose what has made ours a great nation. My own family was brought here in the early 1700s by the British when they wanted indentured servant labor by the Irish. My family was fortunate in being able to escape this servitude and settled from Tucker to Athens, Georgia. Equal is Equal. We are not a nation of hate. If we give into the National Socialists disguised as GOP then we have lost our land, our dignity and our standing as THE symbol of freedom for the world. This is not to say let everybody in, we have better immigration policy than half the civilized nations of the world. We MUST show our humanity, our hope and our love for our fellow men, women and children who have migrated here to escape certain torture and death. Thank you and may the words of Jesus Christ settle into your minds, "I give you a new commandment, it is to LOVE one another as I have loved you." Do you profess Christianity or do you hide behind the GOP label as National Socialists, fascist for those lacking civics education; do you worship at the feet of the atheist, hateful Ayn Rand, or are you an American? The answer and the actions are simple. Hope, faith and love. Nothing is possible without Hope.
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The Board of Regents has finally reversed the ban on these students. I never imagined this level of support when I started this but you all proved that simple persistence can move mountains. Please keep looking out for one another as we move forward.
May 14, 2016
Final supporters
To President Jere Morehead:
We, the students, faculty, staff, and alumni of the University of Georgia, oppose the University System of Georgia’s Board of Regents Policy 4.1.6 and Policy 4.3.4, banning undocumented students from our university and the other top four universities in the state, and denying them in-state tuition benefits at other USG institutions, respectively. The admissions ban at UGA has formally re-segregated higher education in Georgia for its fifth academic year. Banishing Georgia's high school graduates to separate and unequal educational facilities damages Georgia’s economic engine, squanders talent, and tarnishes our university’s and state’s reputations. The long-term economic and ethical costs of discrimination are immense. Georgia is missing out on an estimated $10 million in new tax revenue per year by disqualifying academically-eligible Georgians from discounted in-state tuition, and has failed to capitalize on the average $8,406 per year that is spent on a Georgia student’s K-12 education. Undocumented Georgians alone paid more than $352 million in state and local taxes in 2012; should they not be able to reap the rewards of their tax dollars? Please express your public opposition to the ban on undocumented Georgians and their exclusion from in-state tuition benefits, and use your power as the top official at our university to create positive change on our campus and in our state. Georgia must desegregate its universities by rescinding the admissions ban and charging undocumented graduates of Georgia high schools in-state tuition.
Updates
Reached 250 supporters
April 14, 2016
Reached 100 supporters
April 6, 2016
91 Comments
In addition to everything stated in the letter, the families of these students have paid taxes (sales; property directly or via in their rent; income) that go into the state coffers just like everyone else. I moved to the state for graduate education, and by the second year I already had in-state status. Does that make sense?
President Morehead, I'm ashamed to have to tell people I graduated from a university that excludes people based on their place of birth. I can assure you that you won't be receiving any donations from me as long as this discrimination continues.
As a current student of University of Georgia, I am appalled by the polices of Georgia's Board of Regents that promote segregation and discrimination in the state of Georgia. As one of the top universities in Georgia, UGA should serve as a model for all the other universities and make the change, because access to education should be open to everyone!
As an graduate of UGA and a retired faculty member, I encourage you to use the influence of yout office and out great university to actively seek the end of this ban. The continuation of this policy has far reaching economic and ethical costs. Thank you
I am a honors student and employee at the University of Georgia. Education, including higher education, is essential and should be accessible to all. I stand with the undocumented students and allies in opposing policies 4.1.6 and 4.3.4 that cause desegregation in our schools.
As a 2006 alumna and Foundation Fellow, I encourage President Morehead to stand courageously for equal access to education based on academic merit, not social status. President Morehead has the power to enact the values of justice and equality he championed for years as a mentor to myself and countless other alumni. It is never too late to do the right thing.
According to the New York Post’s story, Hunter Biden in 2015 introduced his Father, then VP in the Obama Administration, to a Top Exec Vadym Pozharskyi at Ukrainian Burisma Holdings Ltd after Hunter joined the company’s board which was Paying him up to $83,000 a Month. The insinuation is that Hunter Successfully Influenced his Father to Pressure Ukraine Government officials “into Firing the Prosecutor Viktor Shokin, who was Investigating Corruption against Burisma. Facebook and Twitter took action to limit distribution (censored) the New York Post story citing Emails purportedly Revealing Evidence of Influence-Peddling by Joe Biden’s son Hunter Biden. The Emails were obtained from a Laptop which had a sticker from the Beau Biden Foundation, and had been Abandoned at Computer-Repair Shop, named “The Mac Shop” in Wilmington, Delaware and owned by John Paul Mac Isaac, who then reported the laptop’s contents to authorities which determined that the laptop and hard drive contain fruits of criminal activity. Joe Biden and his family engaged in "Legal Corruption" despite claims of no wrongdoing and the Liberal Main Stream Media Refuses to Talk and will never Report about Hunter Biden’s laptop and emails, fearing Democratic Presidential Nominee Joe Biden will Lose the 2020 Election if this information is exposed to the American People. This is evidence that Joe Biden participated in his Family’s CASH-for-Influence Scheme with Shady Foreign Companies. The American People should be demanding that the Media investigate this scandal before they VOTE, but we know, the Media will never report on Hunter Biden’s emails because it would be harmful to Joe Biden.
Equal is equal. What more need be said? Please free our state from anti-immigrant discrimination against youth born or brought to the USA from violent and gender based hatreds; and to free them from lands of the drug lords created during the Reagan and Bush administrations. Please, Freedom is Freedom. If we give into anti-American legislation then we lose what has made ours a great nation. My own family was brought here in the early 1700s by the British when they wanted indentured servant labor by the Irish. My family was fortunate in being able to escape this servitude and settled from Tucker to Athens, Georgia. Equal is Equal. We are not a nation of hate. If we give into the National Socialists disguised as GOP then we have lost our land, our dignity and our standing as THE symbol of freedom for the world. This is not to say let everybody in, we have better immigration policy than half the civilized nations of the world. We MUST show our humanity, our hope and our love for our fellow men, women and children who have migrated here to escape certain torture and death. Thank you and may the words of Jesus Christ settle into your minds, "I give you a new commandment, it is to LOVE one another as I have loved you." Do you profess Christianity or do you hide behind the GOP label as National Socialists, fascist for those lacking civics education; do you worship at the feet of the atheist, hateful Ayn Rand, or are you an American? The answer and the actions are simple. Hope, faith and love. Nothing is possible without Hope.
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In addition to everything stated in the letter, the families of these students have paid taxes (sales; property directly or via in their rent; income) that go into the state coffers just like everyone else. I moved to the state for graduate education, and by the second year I already had in-state status. Does that make sense?