By Mike Krause | Complete Colorado
COLORADO SPRINGS—Colorado College is putting a price tag on political activism — or rather, waiving it for its own students — by offering academic credit to undergraduates who spend the summer, among other offerings, working to “shut down immigration detention centers.”
The Colorado Springs-based private liberal arts school’s “Social Action Institute” runs a summer internship pairing students with left-of-center advocacy groups from June 11 through July 28. One of the three tracks offered lets students assist attorneys representing immigration detainees while simultaneously doing “advocacy and organizing work” toward closing the facilities where those same clients are held. Students earn .25 credits towards graduation for the effort.
That program places students with the New Mexico Immigrant Law Center in Albuquerque, working cases tied to the Torrance, Cibola, and Otero immigration detention centers.
The other tracks land in similar, though less pointed territory. “Community Organizing to Support Labor, Tenant/Housing, and Immigrant Rights” sends students into campaign work such as recruitment, protest training, op-ed writing, and “criminal justice accountability” with partners including the Service Workers International Union (SEIU) Local 105 in Denver, Colorado Jobs with Justice, and the Colorado Springs Pro-Housing Partnership.
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