Education
COLLEGE CREDITS FOR HELPING OBAMA CAMPAIGN?
Bob Kellogg (OneNewsNow.com)
Thursday, September 06, 2012
Thursday, September 06, 2012
A Colorado public university may have violated the law by offering students course credits for volunteering to help with President Obama's re-election.Adams State University in Alamosa was offering a 12-week organizing internship for the Obama campaign. But as Oliver Darcy of CampusReform.org points out, taxpayer-supported schools are not permitted to use public resources to help elect political candidates.
"It seems that by offering this course credit to campaign for the Obama campaign, that's exactly what this university was doing," he reasons. "They did swiftly remove that course, probably because they realized that they may be in conflict with the law."
The state-supported liberal arts university denied having used its resources to conduct the course, but Darcy says that is highly unlikely.
"I'd imagine that just even posting it on the school's website -- the school's website is a resource," he notes. "There [are] also two professors involved with that course that was supposed to aid in helping students with the Obama campaign. So, it does definitely seem like they did use resources."
Darcy suggests this seems to be occurring on other campuses throughout the country, so he urges anyone concerned to contact his organization.
"It seems that by offering this course credit to campaign for the Obama campaign, that's exactly what this university was doing," he reasons. "They did swiftly remove that course, probably because they realized that they may be in conflict with the law."The state-supported liberal arts university denied having used its resources to conduct the course, but Darcy says that is highly unlikely.
"I'd imagine that just even posting it on the school's website -- the school's website is a resource," he notes. "There [are] also two professors involved with that course that was supposed to aid in helping students with the Obama campaign. So, it does definitely seem like they did use resources."
Darcy suggests this seems to be occurring on other campuses throughout the country, so he urges anyone concerned to contact his organization.
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