In 2010, the Georgia Board of Regents voted to adopt two policies for five of the state’s public universities. One would restrict in-state tuition to only lawful residents of the state of Georgia and the other restrict admission to lawful residents of the United States. By 2010, neighboring South Carolina and Alabama already had similar admissions and funding restrictions in place for their public universities.

But in Georgia, these policies inspired the founding of non-profit charity Freedom University. Among its goals, “providing students with college courses equivalent to those taught at the state’s most selective universities” and “building a powerful documented/undocumented student movement that will win fair admissions policies in Georgia and give rise to a new generation of movement leaders.” Freedom University’s three course offerings for the spring semester include a choice of graphic design or performance-art activism, a required course in the social sciences and a choice of yoga or track. And on the morning of May 10, a lesson in crime and punishment.