HIGHER ED BUDGET CUTS: THREAT TO STUDENTS
“These cuts often target programs that are essential for Black student success,” said Greene, also founder and executive director of Parenting For Liberation. “Our community is small but significant, and has historically faced systemic barriers.”
As a professor, Greene encourages students to advocate, engage, and lead. Without funding, she said students would lose the ability to apply that learning in real time, detrimental to Black students engaged in shaping their communities to address social inequities.
“Limiting the practical application of their learning not only hinders their academic development but also stifles the emergence of CSUF’s Black students as future leaders and change-makers, equipped to tackle the very issues we teach them about in the classroom,” she said.
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