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What’s In a Name? For North Carolina Legislators, a Chance to Terminate HBCUs
Two years ago, the New York Times editorial board told the nation that the state of North Carolina was burning on every key policy and social issue that had come to represent progressive southern politics, thanks to the political shift of the governor’s office and the state congress to GOP control.
And one of the first things we knew that conservative politicians would try to claim would be the state’s public HBCUs – the last and largest publicly subsidized government agencies you’ll find anywhere that were created for black folks, and today are generally managed by black folks and predominantly serving black folks.
You knew the idea was coming last March when one legislator asked, “how many HBCUs do we really need?” You knew the plan had been developed when almost a year earlier, a state budget proposal which didn’t include Elizabeth City State was introduced and defeated, and the chancellor resigned shortly in December 2015.
And you know the plan is in action when legislators float documents to the media on the “Access to Affordable Education Act,” a plan that aims to lower tuition at public institutions, raises admissions standards, realigns academic missions and programs, and potentially changes the name of some campuses. The law would work in tandem with the state’s Guaranteed Admission Program, which directs high school graduates who finish on the margins of most college admission requirements to community colleges and the potential of transfer into a four-year institution.
http://www.hbcudigest.com/sub/whats...lina-legislators-a-chance-to-terminate-hbcus/
Two years ago, the New York Times editorial board told the nation that the state of North Carolina was burning on every key policy and social issue that had come to represent progressive southern politics, thanks to the political shift of the governor’s office and the state congress to GOP control.
And one of the first things we knew that conservative politicians would try to claim would be the state’s public HBCUs – the last and largest publicly subsidized government agencies you’ll find anywhere that were created for black folks, and today are generally managed by black folks and predominantly serving black folks.
You knew the idea was coming last March when one legislator asked, “how many HBCUs do we really need?” You knew the plan had been developed when almost a year earlier, a state budget proposal which didn’t include Elizabeth City State was introduced and defeated, and the chancellor resigned shortly in December 2015.
And you know the plan is in action when legislators float documents to the media on the “Access to Affordable Education Act,” a plan that aims to lower tuition at public institutions, raises admissions standards, realigns academic missions and programs, and potentially changes the name of some campuses. The law would work in tandem with the state’s Guaranteed Admission Program, which directs high school graduates who finish on the margins of most college admission requirements to community colleges and the potential of transfer into a four-year institution.
http://www.hbcudigest.com/sub/whats...lina-legislators-a-chance-to-terminate-hbcus/
