What does a Trump presidency mean for the future of college campuses in this country?

On November 8th 2016, Donald Trump was elected to be the 45th president of the United States. As a controversial candidate, him being elected created a large divide between Trump supporters and people who did not support him within college campuses. The night that the results came out, residents of UC Irvine’s Mesa Court began a rally crying out YG’s song “F*** Donald Trump!”. I am proud to say that I was a part of that rally and extremely proud of my school for holding the same amount of passion that I do for the political situation at hand.

It is obvious that Donald Trump’s ideas and policies pose many threats for the marginalized groups of this country. Those groups include minorities, immigrants, Muslims, the LGBT community, and women. I know students of University of California, like myself, are a very diverse and progressive group of people that include these marginalized groups. Most of my peers and I cannot imagine having a president that does not support us, identify with us or hold the same sort of beliefs we do.

Estimating for the future of college campuses, I am not too certain of what the future hold for us and other campuses, but I can guess that a few possible things may happen.

One other possibility may be that the people who are in charge or are people of power at the universities around the United States may not let the students have a chance to voice their opinions regarding the elections. Assuming that most of the people who run institutions are older, older people tend to have more conservative views and usually do not stand for radical actions, like rallying.

As for Trump’s plans for college campuses, the Washington Post said, “Donald Trump is promising the most liberal student loan repayment plan since the inception of the federal financial aid program, in a clear effort to court the millions of Americans struggling with the high cost of college,” (Douglas-Gabriel, 2016). This plan is very different from what I thought his plan may be but hopefully when he takes office, this plan will actually do good for college students.

Works Cited:

Image: http://www.berkeleyside.com/2016/11/09/crowd-marches-through-berkeley-in-emergency-protest-against-trump-election/

1) https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/grade-point/wp/2016/10/13/trump-just-laid-out-a-pretty-radical-student-debt-plan/