Cal Poly coalition wants $140K for marginalized students because school is ‘hard to be at’ | The College Fix

Cal Poly coalition wants $140K for marginalized students because school is ‘hard to be at’ | The College Fix
"A coalition of students at California Polytechnic State University want the school to shelve out over $140,000 to various campus identity centers so that marginalized students will feel more welcome.

Student Alejandro Bupara, who identifies as “mestizo Latino and queer,” says Cal Poly is a place “that’s really hard for us to be at […] when we come here, we are being pushed out from the start.”
...the new funding is one of two demands put forth by Bupara and others to address the “lack of affordable housing, overt racism by white students, and sexual violence that disproportionally victimizes women of color and transgender people.”...
The

• Black Academic Excellence Center and the 
• Dream Center would get $25,000 each under the coalition’s proposal; the
• Gender Equity Center, 
• MultiCultural Center, 
• Pride Center, the 
• Ethnic Studies Department, and the 
• Women’s & Gender Studies Department 

each would receive $18,200..."

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