Posted on 10/05/2016 2:19:09 AM PDT by Altura Ct.
Students of color at Columbia University can apply to attend an upcoming racially segregated retreat hosted by the school that promises to embolden and empower participants, according to organizers.
The “Students of Color Leadership Retreat 2016” is open to students within the Columbia University undergraduate community, including its all-women’s Barnard College.
Slated for the weekend of Nov. 12 at Greenkill Retreat Center at the New York YMCA Camp, the event is billed as “an intensive weekend of personal development, empowerment and community building for student leaders at Barnard and Columbia who identify as African/African-American/Black, Latino/Hispanic, Asian/Asian-American, Pacific Islander, Arab and Middle-Eastern, Native & Indigenous, and Multiethnic/Multiracial,” according to the university’s website as well as the retreat’s online application form.
“SOCLR is designed for students who identify themselves as a person of color as a primary identity,” Columbia’s website adds.
The application asks students to state their gender identity/expression, their gender pronoun, their racial identity, and also answer a few questions on what they plan to gain from attending the retreat, paid for by the private, Ivy League institution. Lodging, food and transportation are provided, the application notes.
Event organizers declined to comment to The College Fix, instead redirecting email inquiries to other campus officials.
Asked for additional information, such as whether white students may attend, the cost of the retreat, and about how many students will attend, Melinda Aquino, associate dean of multicultural affairs in Columbia College and Columbia Engineering Undergraduate Student Life, gave a statement on the benefits of the event in an email to The College Fix.
“The Students of Color Leadership Retreat is a long-standing annual program for undergraduates at Columbia and Barnard,” Aquino stated. “The program, which is geared towards any student who self-identifies as a student of color, provides structured activities and guided exercises that enable participants to build community and reflect on their abilities to effect positive change within their own lives, within student organizations, within the Columbia University community, and within society at large.”
Aquino pointed out the Office of Multicultural Affairs also hosts other leadership and community-building programs and retreats that meet the needs of “all students interested in diversity and identity,” including an LGBTQ leadership retreat and an “Intergroup Community Building Initiative” retreat, aimed at creating a more “cohesive” Columbia that affirms “all identities and creates a space for healthy discourse about divisive issues.”
The multicultural office also offers a racially themed mentoring program called the Columbia Mentoring Initiative, which offers programming to the following groups:
Arab & Middle Eastern Family Tree Asian Family Tree Black Family Tree Indigenous Family Tree Latinx Family Tree LGBTQ Family Tree Mosaic Family Tree (International & Multiracial)
Columbia also offers a Global Ambassadors Program, which connects American students and international students through programming and conversations, according to Aquino.
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Oh goody I can go...
I was born in New Zealand...
Actally white is NOT a color but neither is black. I learned that in grade school.
It’s time to start a “Students of Neanderthal Descent,” organize for preferences, and hold retreats limited to students with at least two percent Neaderthal DNA in their genomes.
These events are de facto acknowledgments of inferiority; honestly, the attendees wouldn’t understand half the words spoken by a white person. I’m not even kidding; it is designed for the “preferred minority” college “students” with a third grade education. No words larger than two syllables and such...
Good.
I support the right of free association - for everybody.
They purposefully excluded African American whites. Racist bastards.
Demand your tax dollars going to this racist college ceases. Demand refunds.
“And among the topics to be discussed will be the importance of cooperating with the police, dressing for success, studying hard in school and getting good grades, and not breaking the law.”
I know.....what am I smoking?
I will self-identify as Caucasian but never as white. I am not white and won’t be until I’m dead and have no blood moving and even then it is arguable about being white.
As a baby I was blue turning pink. As a child I was pinkish beige and at times tending to sunburn reds and tans. As an adult, I am much the same, although with fewer reds. Still not white! I can clearly be distinguished while standing in front of a whitewashed wall.
It is RACIST to call me white!
You rang?
Please explain once again why the issue of segregated housing for blacks is NOT racist.
It’s impossible for ‘minorities’ to be racist; Google has said so:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3476448/posts
So when is the no-blacks allowed retreat?
White boy shows up, claims he’s black. Who’s going to dispute it? ‘Specially if he be corn-rowed.
Most schools, even or especially those big suburban schools, have plenty of the subset the kids call ‘whiggers’.
Welcome to civil rights act law suit. If you are white, be sure to apply and have them turn you down especially on paper. Then File against the school.
Every few years they want to be called something else. This “of color” nonsense has to be the worst yet.
What racist pigs!
But that’s not racist.
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