Thread: Professors Pay Students’ Tuition

July 8

Professors Pay Students’ Tuition
Tuition usually goes helps to pay faculty salaries. But at California’s Santa Ana College, some professors are paying their students’ tuition.

The community college’s Opportunity Scholarship will be offered for the first time this fall. The scholarship, for those with unmet financial need and a grade-point average of at least a B, was created by professors. Faculty members, either by themselves or with a colleague, are agreeing to pay for a full year of tuition for a student. Tuition for a California resident is $20 per unit, with full-time students taking at least 12 units a semester.

Professors thought of the idea after noticing that students were dropping out because of financial restraints.

Santa Ana College, in Orange County, serves many low income and immigrant students, said Jeff McMillan, a chemistry instructor and former president of the Academic Senate. Many students are the children of undocumented immigrants, and they are not eligible for assistance from the government, he said. This led McMillan to try to find ways to help students stay in college.

Sara Lundquist, vice president of student services at Santa Ana College, said the problem was first identified to her when she was walking to the coffee cart at the beginning of the fall semester. She was approached by a counselor at Santa Ana, Issac Guzman, who said something needed to be done about the students dropping out because of financial constraints.

Then people wrestling with the problem on their own, like Lundquist and Guzman and McMillan, started working together. Once the project was approved, professors, administrators and departments joined in. An article in the Los Angeles Times led to contributions from people who don’t work at the college.

Originally, the scholarship was planned to be an “intimateâ€

GREAT...more financial assistance for illegal aliens. Further proof that we have far too many libidiots, anarchists, morons and socialists running around. The herd needs thinned.

He wants to be in government. Does he know he is not legal U.S. Citizen and that is a requirement or has California changed that requirement too?

More aiding and abetting!

Luckily, I just so happen to have in my possession a Coast Line Community College hand book that explains in detail the requirements of AB 540 which was passed by CA legislature in 2001. Now, the only difference is I believe that Santa Ana CC is under the Rancho Santiago District. Nonetheless, AB 540 requirements are still the same.

The illegal invaders can qualify for in-state tuition so long as they have graduated from a California High School or passed the GED and, here is the kicker:

The alien student who is without lawful immigration status must file an affidavit with the college or university that he/she has filed an application to legalize his immigration status, OR WILL FILE AN APPLICATION AS SOON AS HE OR SHE IS ELIGIBLE TO DO SO!

In other words, so long as the illegal invader intends to file an application for legal status at some unknown time in the future, that student will be classified as a nonresident, but not in so far as that nonresident status applies to tuition. He will receive in-state tuition, which is currently $20.00 per unit!

So what the heck are the illegal invaders bitching about. Santa Ana CC is full of illegals and they are all getting in-state tuition!

Twelve units would run the illegal around $240.00, not including books. Don't tell me these illegals cannot come up with that twice a year - with the money they make under the table and other state assistance they get. I can bet you that some of these illegals have nice cars sitting in that parking lot they drive to school overy day!

Just Another example of the illegals looking to take advantage of the system in which they are using their illegal status as an excuse to receive further benefits...

Flores is originally from Mexico, but moved to the United States when he was in second grade. He said he’s applying for the scholarship so he can focus on academics. His first semester at Santa Ana he received financial help from some people in the local community. However, last semester, Flores said he had to work and even had to drop two classes so he would be able to work more days of the week.

After he is done with Santa Ana, he plans to go to California State University at Fullerton to study political science. He wants to work in government some day, he said.

Great! Another illegal invader who intends to work in government and push his ethno-centric agenda! Never mind the fact this illegal invader readily admits he is working in this country illegally! Just what California needs!

The alien student who is without lawful immigration status must file an affidavit with the college or university that he/she has filed an application to legalize his immigration status, OR WILL FILE AN APPLICATION AS SOON AS HE OR SHE IS ELIGIBLE TO DO SO!

If I'm not mistaken, once the illegal alien student tries to legalize his status, he will come to the attention of ICE and deported?

How can one file for legal status in this country (especially if here illegally)? I was under the impression it had to be done from OUTSIDE the US?

Originally Posted by miguelina

The alien student who is without lawful immigration status must file an affidavit with the college or university that he/she has filed an application to legalize his immigration status, OR WILL FILE AN APPLICATION AS SOON AS HE OR SHE IS ELIGIBLE TO DO SO!

If I'm not mistaken, once the illegal alien student tries to legalize his status, he will come to the attention of ICE and deported?

How can one file for legal status in this country (especially if here illegally)? I was under the impression it had to be done from OUTSIDE the US?

They can certainly file from this country and the majority of illegals do. Suffice to say, the petition for citizenship will not trigger a deportation action. However, once they file for legal status, they will eventually have to leave the country to have their petition for citizenship adjudicated.

Those from mexico (and elsewhere) are generally required to have their petitions heard at the US Consulate in Ciudad Juarez. If they are approved, they will be allowed to return almost immediately. If not, well...they are in their country of orgin and will remain there.

But under AB 540, they don't ever have to file! They only have to promise to do so when they are eligible to file (whatever that means)! That loophole is so huge a truck could drive through it!