A Georgia university provides illegal immigrant students tuition-free education as well as scholarship aid and skills for leading social movements.
Freedom University in Athens, Georgia, an unaccredited school founded in 2011 by illegal immigrant students, activists, and four University of Georgia professors, provides these services and others specifically to illegal immigrant students with the goal of helping them enroll in accredited colleges.
The school lists its mission as “to empower undocumented youth and fulfill their human right to education.” Billing itself as a “freedom school,” Freedom University claims to have assumed a “leadership role in the national sanctuary campus movement.”
Freedom University has also facilitated the development of Mass Emergency Lookout Text for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (MELT ICE), a program which notifies illegal immigrant students when ICE agents are in the vicinity, according to Campus Reform.
“We believe that all human beings – regardless of race, ethnicity, class, religion, gender, sexual orientation, or citizenship status – have a right to education,” states the university on its website. “We uphold Article 26 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which states that everyone has the right to education and that higher education shall be equally accessible to all on the basis of merit.”
The school also seeks to train activists who exercise “non-violent civil disobedience” to combat alleged segregation, support sanctuary policies at private colleges, and, of course, achieve “equal protection under the law” for illegal immigrant students.
For the spring 2017 term, which ended Wednesday, the school offered courses on gender in Latin America, chemistry, biology, French, creative writing, and graphic design.
Freedom University boasts that one-fifth of its students obtain a full merit scholarship for higher education and have attended institutions such as Dartmouth College, Hampshire College, and Emory University. It also participated in an initiative that resulted in the latter institution amending its policy to accept illegal immigrant students and give privately-funded financial aid to those who demonstrate need.
The Daily Caller News Foundation reached out to Freedom University, but did not receive comment in time for press.
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