Does this mean the $55,000 DOES NOT include meals and housing? What a rip off! I can't believe any university can be this expensive. And for what? I went to two (Canadian) universities. The cheap one with 120 students had the best English Lit professor I ever had - a man from Detroit with a BA. He was far, far superior to the PhDs in the expensive U I graduated from. A nun who might have had an MA was a 100% better teacher of Shakespeare than the PhD at the expensive U. etc., etc. Perhaps money guarantees quality teaching in the US but it doesn't in Canada. It doesn't seem to at this U because these nitwits are very ignorant on many levels, if not mentally ill and living in la-la-land.

If these are the "best and the brightest" in America we Canadians should seriously think about invading you for your own good.

I wasn't sure if you were talking about the Baby Boomers or Millennials at first. I thought Milennials, b/c the Boomers have already stole and destroyed everything they can to line their greedy hippy turned yuppie pockets. History repeats itself - over and over and over it seems.

I remember going to community college back in 2002 it was $3.00 a unit. This year 2019 $46.00 a unit.

Absolutely amazing They are clearly Nuts
Coalition has released their list of demands, and here they are, broken down in plain English. It’s not surprising that pretty much all of their demands, except for “stop centering whiteness,” cost money.

Winter housing, no charge, with free food
Segregated housing for students of color, that will increase in size with demand
Basic toiletries for all
Free meals in a variety of restricted options, for any students in need, including grad students
Staffed food pantry for 300 students per semester. (Somehow this is in addition to the free meal plans?)
Kosher kitchen
Full-time staff position as administrative liaison for first-generation college students
Increase in book, travel, and internship stipends
Redesign the website to be available in more languages and for more non-traditional students
Free storage over summer
Free health insurance
A first-year (that’s freshman for all you non-Sarah Lawrence people, because we’re egalitarian like that) seminar about intellectual elitism and classism
Reduction in some tuition-based fees
Extra info sessions for international students who don’t speak English
Off-campus transit to storage locations and therapy sessions
Seminars on American taxes for international students and counseling for the same
Admit more students with financial need from the Global South, with recruitment efforts
Expand international scholarship funds
Give international students jobs on campus since they are not legally allowed to work in the United States (but if they’re not allowed to work in the United States, and the campus isn’t some specialized diplomatic zone…you see the conundrum).
Two new tenured professors in African diasporic studies, but only one each of Asian, Latinx, and indigenous backgrounds, who will then teach courses in the areas of their ethnicity. (Do they get to teach other stuff? Or must their ethnic and racial backgrounds determine what they can teach?)
Stop taking money from the Koch Brothers. (So this is interesting: The Diaspora Coalition would like the college to spend a grand heap of money, but also would like to give some back? This money isn’t good enough? Is the board supposed to find pure money somewhere? Untouched by heathen hands? Perhaps soaked in the blood of young virgins who died for their purity?)
Revoke tenure for Professor Samuel Abrams (He wrote an op-ed in the New York Times about how school administrators are leftist…crickets? Yeah, me too.)
Add specialized diversity staff, hired only from a pool of people of color, per Title IX: a dean, a director, and an assistant director
Three new therapists, of specific ethnic and racial backgrounds (if they’re on campus, then who do the students need rides to?)
Annual diversity training
Scholarships specifically for students of color for the full four years
An endowment set aside for these scholarships
Annual fundraising goals for the endowment (oh, for sure, yeah, the president of the college and the board don’t try desperately to fund raise as much as possible already. And hey, look how successful they were with the Koch Brothers? Oh, wait, yeah, let’s give that money back, shall we? Good call. Pats on backs all around the daisy chain.)
Stipends for the students with the specialized scholarship, and private housing, and a meal plan, and field trips throughout the year! (Who doesn’t love a field trip?)
Meet all financial needs of all students of color (Is this before or after the funds are secured in the endowment?)
Guaranteed work study (Maybe someone wants to be the new dean? Or drive those cars to therapy? Staff the food pantry? Best way to make some jobs, spend some money you don’t have.)
$500 per semester to eight identity specific student groups. (So $8,000 per year for segregated clubs!)
Land acknowledgment. (Sure, surprised we didn’t have this already, frankly.)
No repercussions for missing work study or class for participating in protests. (Because yeah, no one should have to make tough choices or prioritize one thing over another.)
In short, the Diaspora Coalition demands that the college fix all the problems! And all at once! Or else they will shut the school down and take their $55,000 per year with them