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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• campus progress
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• student debt
• student aid
• college cost
• safra
• Tim Bishop
• victor sanchez
• erica williams
• august johnston
• pedro de la torre

[AmmonJupiter]

@theaznfishy Also, I think that your lack of perspective on this only exposes your own privilege. And for the record, the supreme court and several states have banned affirmative action for nearly 10 years now, Arguing against AA is a moot point, homes.

[AmmonJupiter]

@theaznfishy I think that what is problematic about merit-based scholarship is that, due to the fact that people of color have been so shortchanged by class status and the public school system, it makes proving themselves based on academic merit much more difficult than a rich, white kid who has had incredible access to educational resources including tutoring, and never has to worry about gang violence, drugs-baiting, or working to help his family make ends meet.

[HayateAzekura]

I agree with people here. Look I am Mexican, I have a 3.7 gpa, no debt and work full time. Affirmative actions is stupid. There are so many idiots kids in school. They spend their financial aid on fancy phones, clothes and ect. Then they come and say, we need to make it easier for everyone to go to college. NO!!!!!, college should be for a few. those that can keep at least a gpa of 3.0 or higher a semester. Thats why college seems like high school now. They seem to be dumbing everything down.

[theaznfishy]

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.

[theaznfishy]

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...

[junglelord]

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

[junglelord]

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.

[junglelord]

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.

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