Posted on 08/23/2016 8:07:20 AM PDT by Iron Munro
California State University Fresno recently held a three-day student retreat for black students that aimed to foster inclusion and help incoming African American students adjust to college life and get involved in the campus community.
The inaugural “Harambee Student Retreat,” which took place Aug.14 through Aug 17, was free to participating students, who enjoyed housing, meals, workshops and activities meant to help aid in the “successful transition of incoming African American/Black students to Fresno State,” the university’s website states.
About 40 new students plus about a dozen returning students took part, and about $16,000 was set aside in the university’s budget to host the event, although the final cost has yet to be determined, said Shirley Melikian Armbruster, associate vice president of university communications, in an email to The College Fix.
Fresno State President Joseph Castro, in an address to kick off the new school year, praised the retreat, noting “the call to better support African American students in connecting with their peers and the university was heard and put into action.”
“A first ever retreat, appropriately titled Harambee, which means ‘Let’s pull together,’ was held this week where new and continuing African-American students, along with African-American faculty, staff and alumni, could exchange ideas of how to create a greater sense of belonging on campus,” Castro continued.
Videos and pictures of the retreat posted on Facebook show black students sharing stories, performing skits together, and even taking a trip to Wild Water Adventure Park, a park with water attractions near the central California campus.
According to the university’s website, topics broached at the retreat included information on how to receive assistance with financial aid and housing, as well as how to develop leadership skills and find a job.
“The retreat was a three-day residential orientation experience that allowed the students to make connections with alumni, faculty, staff and community members. It also provided an opportunity to introduce students to African-American clubs/organizations and encourage engagement,” Armbruster told The College Fix.
“The retreat was a student success event to assist African-American students in their transition to university life and instill a sense of belonging at the institution, which has an approximately 4 percent African-American student population, and help boost retention and graduation rates of African-American students, which are slightly below other groups at Fresno State,” Armbruster added. “With this proactive approach, the goal was to provide experiences and activities to facilitate a smooth social and academic integration of African-American students into the campus community.”
Nothing will prepare these black students for the diversity of college life better than having them segregated to themselves right off the bat.
Yes, I actually typed that. It was clearly meant as sarcasm, but the sarcasm would be completely lost of the leftist race baiters who promote these divisive programs.
In Swahili. Why should that be considered "appropriate?"
Will the corresponding Whites-Only Student Retreat be "appropriately" titled "Zusammenkunft?" After all, the ancestors of all White people spoke German, right - just like the ancestors of all of these Black students spoke Swahili?
Regards,
I was at the gym yesterday and a black male was working out with a t-shirt that read something like: “National Association of Black Entrepreneurs” and I just wondered what would happen if I walked in wearing a t-shirt that said: “National Association of White Entrepreneurs”.
Thanks for the translation. For a minute I thought it was named after Harambe, the Cincinnati Zoo gorilla.
I would bet every dime I have that the black students who participated in this “retreat” were in soft majors - women studies, sociology, queer theory, etc. etc.
And they probably don’t even see the hypocrisy of the event.
All paid retreat is Democrats pitching dependency hence despondency. Sounds like some coddled blacks need to grow a pair and publicly call their Professors Bigots that they are.
I'm not sure if I ever saw a bigger resume stain than THAT major.
How right you are!!!
As long as the American Negro feels the need to place African before their nation of Birth, they will never belong on either continent - by this very program, people of this race are told to be inclusive i.e., racist.
Horribly condescending to Black Americans.
It’s as if they don’t have a clue how to fit-in to a diverse community or figure out how to succeed on their own.
Does nobody at the university see the irony or the hypocrisy in something like this?
That’s just crackers!
Oh wait, no it’s not, no crackers allowed!!
“...segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever...” Gov. George C. Wallace, January 14, 1963.
He’d be proud.
C.W.
Good point, but he would probably still beat you one on one.
My son graduated from Purdue last year with his degree in Chemical Engineering. His commencement ceremony was strictly for the Engineering schools; Civil, Mechanical, Biomedical, Chemical, Electrical and Nuclear. (Industrial Engineering and one other concentration was done a different session). The two most challenging (my son used the term “grueling”) are Chemical and Nuclear. Not one black graduate in those majors. There were a few black graduates in Civil and Mechanical, but less than ten out of a total of 200 or so for each of those majors. Of those ten, the majority had names that led me to believe they were born in Africa, not the United States.
Lots of Asians, though. The Electrical and Computer Engineering school grad roster read like a Shanghai phone book.
So no, I will not take you up on your bet regarding the probable degrees these black students were pursuing.
20 years from now when Asians and Hispanics rule the California college system you won’t see black squat, this stupid crap is the last bit of virtue signaling by the fading white libtards.
And this is at CSU Fresno......
But then they do have a bunch of athletes who will do well in the felonious NBA
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