I read the other day that the students are pushing for Stanford to become a sanctuary campus? I somewhat understand what the idea of this movement is but can someone explain how the practical’s of how this works. Should a parent be concerned?
relax.
not going to happen.
there is no place to house any refugees
Nope!
It’s basically a movement pushing colleges to join cities like LA and Portland in non-cooperation with mass deportation of undocumented people. It might stir up some argument, etc., but your kid has nothing to fear.
@menloparkmom
some were thinking about sharing the dorms?
^^administration will not allow it,
^^Thanks for the info
Actually what it means in this specific context is that any undocumented Stanford students would be protected by the college - their data wouldn’t be released, if such request were made, etc.
Practically speaking nothing will change. Stanford and other colleges are not turning over undocumented students now.
I wonder if in the new administration would consider the step of cutting off federal funds to colleges that decide to act as sanctuaries. Very few colleges could survive that.
Yes, many student organizations are looking to protect their own students and in some cases their families. My understanding is that if the new administration repeals DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals) then some students might be subject to deportation.
Information on these students would not be volunteered by college administrations and campus police would not be questioning them about their status. Remember immigration is a federal matter and enforcement does not lie with the states.
If my understanding is correct, sanctuary campus is more about enrolled undocumented students of the university. It has nothing to do with refugees; refugees are those who are politically suppressed, not those due to economic/family reasons.
Again, I do not have a JD degree. So I could be wrong here. The movement of sanctuary campus appears to be a legal and political fight for undocumented students. But the reality is that universities do not seem to have a strong legal foundation to effectively create a sanctuary campus.
As a parent, you do not need to be concerned too much unless your child fails to balance his/her time and spends all his/her time on this movement; some involvement is nothing wrong though if so desired.
Well it’s not all that clear and it really depends on what actions the students are requesting of their administrations. Much of what has been requested at my D’s school would not put their federal funding at risk according to this article:
From the article: “… at the end of the day an immigration official can always get a warrant if necessary.”
Yes, they can get a warrant. But most of what the students are requesting at some of these schools is that the college will protect the confidential information of their students and not use campus police to interrogate and blow the whistle on these students. In other words the federal government has to do their own homework in identifying those they may want to take action against and get the appropriate approval from the courts.
One concern for DACA students is if they are currently on a study abroad program or are committed to one for next semester.
It is my understanding that the Office of the Chancellor for the California State Universities just sent out a notice. Basically they said that if the new administration repeals DACA as promised upon taking office in January, that there is a “realistic possibility” that those with DACA status will not be permitted re-entry into the U.S.
Personally, I cant imagine this actually happening and hope the Chancellor’s Office is just covering all their bases. Where would these students go?
I see you sent a link to university endowment size.
I am well aware of university endowment size and its impact on university budgets. I am an investor, and several well known universities invest with my firm and share with us the return expectations that they have and its percentage of the budget.
What many people are unaware of is how much federal support colleges receive. It goes far beyond guaranteed student loans and Pell grants. The big line item is federal research spending. The big winner is Johns Hopkins at $2.24B (yes billion) per year, of which $1.95 billion per year is from the federal government.
This Johns Hopkins page shows the top-10 in terms of total R&D money received. Stanford is #9 at roughly $0.9B, which once again is probably mostly federal spending.
https://hub.jhu.edu/2015/12/09/research-funding-leader-nsf-survey/
As I said before, very few colleges could afford to lose all federal funding.
Ah, research spending. You see, though, the government benefits tremendously from that investment and will not withdraw it. Or if it somehow chose to do so out of spite, it would be shooting itself in the foot.
I didn’t say it was rational, but don’t confuse that with impossible, or even unlikely at this point.
Beyond unlikely, but that’s neither here nor there–hypotheticals get us nowhere. I mean “I wonder if college students would go on a mass nationwide strike until the government moves to stop predatory and punitive student loan policies?” is something someone could say, and we could argue about it for a long time, but it would be pointless, as pointless as “I wonder if aliens from another galaxy might show up and fix all our problems?”
I think the expectation the current President-elect would actually win was “beyond unlikely” as well.
I hope you are right in this case.