VIA Dan Mangan from CNBC.com . Photo Via Reuters
At least two students from Nigeria who applied to a Texas college were told they wouldn’t be admitted because of Ebola. The college rejected the applications, citing confirmed Ebola cases in the country as the reason for the admissions decision. A copy of the letter he provided to CNBC carries the signature of Navarro College’s international programs director, Elizabeth Pillans.
The letter begins: “With sincere regret, I must report that Navarro College is not able to offer you acceptance for the Spring 2015 term. Unfortunately, Navarro College is not accepting international students from countries with confirmed Ebola cases.”
Idris Bello, a Nigerian who lives in East Texas, tweeted a photo of the letter to bring attention to the situation. Bello, in an interview with CNBC, called the college’s purported policy “embarrassing.”
In his tweet, Bello noted the irony of the school having such a policy for foreign students, when 26-year-old nurse Nina Pham, in nearby Dallas, recently contracted the disease after treating a Liberian man, Thomas Eric Duncan.
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