MALDEF has sued the individual members of the Board of Regents on behalf of all the undocumented but qualified students who are being denied entry to the entire university system of Georgia or who are being asked to pay out-of-state fees..
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Bertis Downs
10 years ago
The waste in human potential is staggering-- some of our best and brightest students in our state cannot even apply due to the politics of the ban.
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Ashley Rivas-Triana
10 years ago
LIFT THE BAN!
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Erin Podvin
10 years ago
An educated citizenry benefits us all- period. It is time to move beyond this short-sighted policy and think about the long-term impact it will have on our state.
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Kristina Petti
10 years ago
Georgia is losing some of our best and brightest students because of this policy.
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Margaret Quesada
10 years ago
We should accept students based on their academic performance and promise and not on their immigration status.
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anita picas
10 years ago
Everybody has the right to go to the University.
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Anonymous
10 years ago
In the forty-three years that I have been a Georgia resident, the people of Georgia are successfully overcoming a culture of discrimination. Georgia has grown to be one of the most progressive states in the Southeast. The University System of Georgia’s Board of Regents Policy 4.1.6 and Policy 4.3.4, banning undocumented Georgia residents students from our university is a regrettable step back.
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Matthew M Nahrstedt
10 years ago
Please keep our university an INclusive place.
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Genevieve Esquivie
10 years ago
Everyone is entitled to an education not matter what, and specially when students graduate from a high school, as most of them do; therefore they have to right to apply to any public colleges or universities and if accepted, have the right to pursuit their education, as any other students, using the in-state tuition, using their HOPE or Miller Scholarship, their Pell Grant and any other financial assistance. The Illegality in this matter has nothing to do with education. Those students came to the US at a very young age, and they call it HOME. Remember that the US is the Land of Opportunity ! (being recently sworn US citizen) Where is their opportunity when our Governor is stopping them, is denying them a better life than their parents had? This bill is outrageous , I seriously hope that Dr.Morehead as well as the other Presidents of the GA public Universities will act accordingly and stop this discrimination.
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Rosemarie Goodrum
10 years ago
Please act to change this egregious policy.
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Nathan Joseph Puckett
10 years ago
Everyone has the right to an education.
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Horacio Castillo-Perez
10 years ago
End segregation!
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Caley Smith
10 years ago
do not reject the idea of democracy, do not attempt to make human beings less than human. these kids are as American as anyone.
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Ian Altman
10 years ago
I have been part of the UGA community since 1993, when I enrolled and took a degree in philosophy. I also have a graduate degree in Language and Literacy Education. I am a member of the COE Alumni Board, and a community consultant for UGA's Institutional Review Board, and a Distinguished Alumni award winner from the COE. My roots run deep at UGA. I now teach at the public high school a 10 minute walk from UGA's north campus, and many of my most capable students, who would love to attend UGA and who are perfectly qualified for it, are not even allowed to apply, despite the fact that every other person of the 7+ billion on Earth may apply. They end up going to private schools or out of state: Agnes Scott, Syracuse, Young Harris, Mercer, for example, where they do very well. It is time for you to take a stand. The members of Board of Regents have behaved dishonorably on this issue, and damaged the lives of children, on a cowardly political calculation following the directives of a governor who does not know what is right for his state in this instance. It is time for you to take a stand and do what is right for young immigrant women and men in your own back yard.
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Daniel Lovingood
10 years ago
As an alumni of the University of Georgia System (M.S. 1983, Geology, UGA and B.S. 1980, Geology, Univ. of West GA), I am shocked that UGA has played part in this discriminatory practice of segregation. I have many, many Latino friends and many of whom are Dreamers. Every single one of the Dreamers is an academically high-achieving student who simply wants to learn. They come from strong, hard-working families who contribute immensely to our community. End the ban! End the segregation! Let these people attend the school they choose and at in-state tuition rates. This discriminatory and racist policy is hurting our economy.
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Matthew Epperson
10 years ago
Education is a human right!
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Ariana Cammllarie
10 years ago
Please reconsider this policy. Every undocumented child deserves the right to the education they desire!
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Gaby Reyes
10 years ago
I am a student at the University of Georgia, and I am ashamed to know that UGA is participating in this segregation.
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Daye Park
10 years ago
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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!
MALDEF has sued the individual members of the Board of Regents on behalf of all the undocumented but qualified students who are being denied entry to the entire university system of Georgia or who are being asked to pay out-of-state fees..
The waste in human potential is staggering-- some of our best and brightest students in our state cannot even apply due to the politics of the ban.
LIFT THE BAN!
An educated citizenry benefits us all- period. It is time to move beyond this short-sighted policy and think about the long-term impact it will have on our state.
Georgia is losing some of our best and brightest students because of this policy.
We should accept students based on their academic performance and promise and not on their immigration status.
Everybody has the right to go to the University.
In the forty-three years that I have been a Georgia resident, the people of Georgia are successfully overcoming a culture of discrimination. Georgia has grown to be one of the most progressive states in the Southeast. The University System of Georgia’s Board of Regents Policy 4.1.6 and Policy 4.3.4, banning undocumented Georgia residents students from our university is a regrettable step back.
Please keep our university an INclusive place.
Everyone is entitled to an education not matter what, and specially when students graduate from a high school, as most of them do; therefore they have to right to apply to any public colleges or universities and if accepted, have the right to pursuit their education, as any other students, using the in-state tuition, using their HOPE or Miller Scholarship, their Pell Grant and any other financial assistance. The Illegality in this matter has nothing to do with education. Those students came to the US at a very young age, and they call it HOME. Remember that the US is the Land of Opportunity ! (being recently sworn US citizen) Where is their opportunity when our Governor is stopping them, is denying them a better life than their parents had? This bill is outrageous , I seriously hope that Dr.Morehead as well as the other Presidents of the GA public Universities will act accordingly and stop this discrimination.
Please act to change this egregious policy.
Everyone has the right to an education.
End segregation!
do not reject the idea of democracy, do not attempt to make human beings less than human. these kids are as American as anyone.
I have been part of the UGA community since 1993, when I enrolled and took a degree in philosophy. I also have a graduate degree in Language and Literacy Education. I am a member of the COE Alumni Board, and a community consultant for UGA's Institutional Review Board, and a Distinguished Alumni award winner from the COE. My roots run deep at UGA. I now teach at the public high school a 10 minute walk from UGA's north campus, and many of my most capable students, who would love to attend UGA and who are perfectly qualified for it, are not even allowed to apply, despite the fact that every other person of the 7+ billion on Earth may apply. They end up going to private schools or out of state: Agnes Scott, Syracuse, Young Harris, Mercer, for example, where they do very well. It is time for you to take a stand. The members of Board of Regents have behaved dishonorably on this issue, and damaged the lives of children, on a cowardly political calculation following the directives of a governor who does not know what is right for his state in this instance. It is time for you to take a stand and do what is right for young immigrant women and men in your own back yard.
As an alumni of the University of Georgia System (M.S. 1983, Geology, UGA and B.S. 1980, Geology, Univ. of West GA), I am shocked that UGA has played part in this discriminatory practice of segregation. I have many, many Latino friends and many of whom are Dreamers. Every single one of the Dreamers is an academically high-achieving student who simply wants to learn. They come from strong, hard-working families who contribute immensely to our community. End the ban! End the segregation! Let these people attend the school they choose and at in-state tuition rates. This discriminatory and racist policy is hurting our economy.
Education is a human right!
Please reconsider this policy. Every undocumented child deserves the right to the education they desire!
I am a student at the University of Georgia, and I am ashamed to know that UGA is participating in this segregation.
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!