To President Mark Becker:
We, the students, faculty, staff, and alumni of Georgia State University, 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 GSU 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.
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As the parent of two teenagers in the state of Georgia, who will be shopping for where to send our tuition money over the next decade, I can state very firmly that we will definitely be taking into consideration the political and social leanings of their policies. This is a human rights issue. To deny people who live and support our communities access to higher education is keeping them down just as surely as any Jim Crow Laws of bygone decades. Step into the 21st century, Georgia Regents, or you will be losing exactly the kind of students you wish to attract: intelligent, engaged thinkers.
It is a shame that the UGA has this exclusionary policy. It is not only discriminatory, but this is a human rights issue.
I am against this policy that excludes academically qualified students!
I'm more than ashamed that our state feels it can get away with exclusionary practices that are clearly meant to keep people from higher learning. I will continue to be vocal and speak up against this discriminatory and offensive policy. It's no coincidence that it's these same colleges that kept African Americans out not too long ago. I stand firmly against this policy and I expect Dr. Becker to as well
A great improvement to Georgia State University would be to end Segregation!
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To President Mark Becker:
We, the students, faculty, staff, and alumni of Georgia State University, 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 GSU 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.
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As a student with DACA I pay about 10k a year in out of state tuition at a TECH college even though I have been a student in GA k-12. It's disgusting considering that my parents and now I have been paying and filling our taxes for the 20 years we have lived in this country AND in Georgia!
As the parent of two teenagers in the state of Georgia, who will be shopping for where to send our tuition money over the next decade, I can state very firmly that we will definitely be taking into consideration the political and social leanings of their policies. This is a human rights issue. To deny people who live and support our communities access to higher education is keeping them down just as surely as any Jim Crow Laws of bygone decades. Step into the 21st century, Georgia Regents, or you will be losing exactly the kind of students you wish to attract: intelligent, engaged thinkers.
It is a shame that the UGA has this exclusionary policy. It is not only discriminatory, but this is a human rights issue.
I am against this policy that excludes academically qualified students!
I'm more than ashamed that our state feels it can get away with exclusionary practices that are clearly meant to keep people from higher learning. I will continue to be vocal and speak up against this discriminatory and offensive policy. It's no coincidence that it's these same colleges that kept African Americans out not too long ago. I stand firmly against this policy and I expect Dr. Becker to as well
A great improvement to Georgia State University would be to end Segregation!
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As a student with DACA I pay about 10k a year in out of state tuition at a TECH college even though I have been a student in GA k-12. It's disgusting considering that my parents and now I have been paying and filling our taxes for the 20 years we have lived in this country AND in Georgia!