Posted on 01/29/2018 11:51:03 AM PST by C19fan
In analyzing federal data for an in-depth examination of the nation’s historically black colleges and universities, the AJC found that the six-year graduation rates at 20 schools were 20 percent or lower in 2015.
This means that four of five beginning freshmen at those schools didn’t earn a degree within six years.
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I’m sure it’s because the course work is so exceptionally difficult.
(I crack myself up.)
these marginal students will muddle thru with the help of their racist teachers and pass, and then get into law school thru racism and become johnny cochrans...all mouth and no substance...
So even after 6 years, 80% of their students aren’t graduating (earning a degree)? Wow!
“There is no reason for these marginal HBCUs to exist. “
Aw...com’on Ol’ BJ KLINTOON said everyone is entitled to go to college....
Nationally, only 60 percent graduate from a four year program, that generally takes 5 years.
The college system is so, so broken. I had to do a study on this for an economic development council.
Very, very broken.
What could possibly be the cause?
Education lending is the new sub-prime housing bubble.
Personally, I can’t wait for it to blow up.
One time the American spectator did a in-depth analysis of what percent of graduates of BUCK’s which contribute to their Alma Maters:
it’s absolutely dismal.
virtually none of their graduate’s later contribute to the colleges.
it’s guilt-harboring, liberal wealthy Jews and honkies that support these colleges.
“White universities” fight for the brightest minorities, especially African Americans. HBCU’s get many of the students who can’t afford to go to school and are marginal students. They have solved some of that by trying to pull in foreign students.
Add in that about every 10-12 years, someone embezzles massive amounts from them or they fail an audit.
HBCU’s, not BUCK, jeez..
Remember, they are products of high schools which probably taught them, at least for a while, according to Commie Core. Also remember that any time any teacher gave them challenging high school work (or even challenging elementary or middle school work), they would screw around instead of buckling down and doing the assigned work, then cry "You racist!" when the teacher handed back their "work" with a failing grade at the top. I experienced this dozens of times during my teaching career. So, this is no surprise to me. Can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear. If they couldn't get it together in public school, how do you expect them to make it in a far less regulated/supervised setting like college?
If a student with limited income support signs up for one semester then drops out because he/she/it can't handle the ongoing cost -- that student would be counted in this statistic.
One would expect that students from a historically low-income cultural group would be more likely to fit this scenario -- regardless of the color of their epidermis...
I thought the goal was, on average, to have students earn their undergraduate degrees in 4 years...
6 is the new 4.
I think a really interesting statistic to see would be how much student debt per graduate a college generates.
I agree with your assessment. An additional problem for these schools is that many of their better students transfer to better schools, which decreases the HBCU graduation rate. Many of these schools are becoming little more than community colleges.
True enough...
C19fan wrote: “There is no reason for these marginal HBCUs to exist. With colleges falling over themselves trying to get blacks to enroll these HBCUs are enrolling the bottom of the barrel. These marginal students would be better served with vocational education.”
These school perform a very ‘valuable’ service ensuring that marginal students were considered qualified. Back during the Clinton administration, the education industry tried to nationalize job descriptions and set the minimum qualifications for almost all industries. If you passed over a candidate for a position who met those minimal qualifications, then that could be used as evidence of racial bias.
We have a local HBCU, Alabama A&M. I first encountered a graduate from AA&M in a military course. We spent the first two weeks on basic electrical engineering. Nothing more complicated that E=IxR. Stuff you learned in the first week of your first electrical engineering class. This A&M graduate flunked the exam twice which should have eliminated him from further work. He was allowed to complete the course because that MOS needed more minority officers. Did I mention this A&M graduate who couldn’t pass the first exam in an Electrical Class had a Bachelor’s from A&M in Electrical Engineering?
I also attended a graduation ceremony for A&M a couple of years ago. They had graduates stand for various honors. I would estimate that over 90% were cum laude or better.
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