Is College Only for the Rich? Student Organizing for College Affordability Event


Video of our December 2, 2009, event, featuring Congressman Tim Bishop (D-NY); Victor Sanchez, president of the University of California Student Association; Bruce Cain, executive director of the University of California Washington Center; Angus Johnston, a historian of student social movements, and blogger at www.studentactivism.net; and Campus Progress’s Pedro de la Torre, a policy expert on student financial aid. The panel was moderated by Erica Williams, deputy director of Campus Progress.

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5 Responses to “Is College Only for the Rich? Student Organizing for College Affordability Event”

  1. theaznfishy says:

    our future health professionals [the ones I ran into were applying to nursing school]. They were as dumb as rocks. I don’t mind having diversity in our universities and colleges but for the love of all that’s holy, DONT pass them like their backgrounds should force people to look away from their grades. It really makes me and I’m sure future generations fear that they’re going to wind up with a minority physician or nurse who has the IQ of a middle schooler because others just passed them.

  2. theaznfishy says:

    I wish they would stop making minority people seem like the downtrodden. Schools should give admission to merit, not based on quotas that are aimed to allow “diversity”. That’s reverse discrimination towards people who actually deserve to be and are capable of being educated to the fullest. I can remember running into some of the AA [affirmative action] folks at my college, it was a joke. They barely had the capacity to retain the information much less apply it, and they’re going to be…

  3. junglelord says:

    John Taylor Gatto was voted New York State teacher of the year in 1991. He worked for 26 years as a New York City school teacher. He explains everything and I recommend his book
    Dumbing Us Down,
    The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling

  4. junglelord says:

    The entire public education system was set up by Rockerfeller and JP Morgan…for a reason….to run the industries. They needed SERFS. The Teacher who won Teacher of the year in NYC blantely lays it all out on the line, check you history.

  5. junglelord says:

    The reason you are FORCED to attend public school yet are disallowed from higher education, expect the “show me the money” group and the reason for the flip flop from the public school forced “education” programming, is because you are a SERF, and the Illuminati control the world.

    The

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