Overview
- Faculty may relocate courses online or grant excused absences and alternative make-up assignments for those facing fears of immigration enforcement.
- Reports of heavily armed ICE agents in MacArthur Park have left community members afraid to use public transit or drive to campus.
- Although no raids have taken place on the 21,000-student campus, leaders say these measures aim to protect its large immigrant population.
- Provost Heather Lattimer authorized the policy on July 9 and based it on CSU’s established emergency teaching protocols from recent crises.
- CSU police are barred from detaining individuals solely for suspected undocumented status and the Dreamers Resource Center continues to support undocumented students.