How Colleges Are Responding to Demands That They Become 'Sanctuary Campuses'

December 2, 2016

In the past few weeks, Xavier Maciel, a first-year transfer student at Pomona College, has on more than one occasion woken up to over a dozen emails from college professors across the country.

After the presidential election, he created a spreadsheet to track which colleges were circulating petitions to become "sanctuary campuses" — an idea similar to sanctuary cities, where officials will not cooperate with the deportation efforts of federal immigration authorities. Each morning, he fields emails from faculty or students wanting to add their college’s petition to his list; it now has over 150 institutions on it.

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The Chronicle of Higher Education