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A survey of more than six hundred American colleges found that more than half knowingly admit students who are in the United States illegally under at least some circumstances.
The survey, conducted by American Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers, found that 54 percent of the 613 schools responding knowingly admitted undocumented students, although some said they only did so if the student had graduated from an in-state high school or had certified their intention to seek legal status. Public community colleges were the most likely to admit students known to be undocumented, with 7o percent of those respondents saying they did so.
Just a heads-up: the link above leads to the website of the Chronicle of Higher Education, and the comments on that article are just as creepy as one would expect.
What happens when a bright-eyed South Carolina sophomore stumbles into a Leninist rally in NYC?
Reader Suzanne passed along word last night that there’s going to be a massive statewide rally in California tomorrow against higher ed budget cuts and fee hikes, with students from across the state busing in to Sacramento. Between six and seven thousand are expected to participate.
Accordng to iwillmarch.com, the march will begin at 10 am, with a rally at the State Capitol at noon and lobby visits beginning at 2 pm.
From Clay Shirky’s new blogpost Newspapers and Thinking the Unthinkable:
That is what real revolutions are like. The old stuff gets broken faster than the new stuff is put in its place. The importance of any given experiment isn’t apparent at the moment it appears; big changes stall, small changes spread. Even the revolutionaries can’t predict what will happen.
There aren’t many writers pithier than Clay.
Finnish students have been occupying the main administration building of the University of Helsinki since Friday.
Approximately three hundred students took over the building on Friday evening to protest a new education law that would open up Finnish colleges and universities to greater business influence. The occupation followed a day of coordinated protests across Finland.
Students staged an overnight sit-in in the same space in late February. According to one news report, the February protesters discussed the education bill with a vice-chancellor and “served coffee to the returning staff” before leaving the building.
studentactivism.net 
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