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Black Americans Are Discarding “College for All”
James G. Martin Center for Academic Renewal ^ | November 14, 2025 | David Randall

Posted on 11/17/2025 7:29:16 AM PST by karpov

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1 posted on 11/17/2025 7:29:16 AM PST by karpov
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Even though Hispanic and Asian student enrollment rose during that time period

Foreign students bring extra tuition fees.

2 posted on 11/17/2025 7:33:39 AM PST by Tell It Right (1 Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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If colleges were not able to force students to take classes in what could be grouped under the heading of grievance studies, there would be a lot fewer jobs for PhD’s in those fields. Ending DEI employment will also lead to far fewer people majoring in worthless, even anti-American, majors


3 posted on 11/17/2025 7:33:55 AM PST by Freee-dame (The left never dreamed that Trump would be back in the White House in 2025. )
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Good for them. Young people of all colors need to think hard about whether college is worth it. Way too many times its not. Kids can make more learning a trade than getting a useless degree from a third-rate college and being saddled with massive debt.


4 posted on 11/17/2025 7:34:09 AM PST by Opinionated Blowhard (When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.)
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College Attendance Certificates won’t automatically get you a job anymore. Most employers are blowing them off.


5 posted on 11/17/2025 7:34:24 AM PST by FlingWingFlyer (Socialism isn't free. That's why every illegal alien milking America left socialism and came here.)
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To: Freee-dame

A degree in grievance studies might get the holder a plum job in the government sector.


6 posted on 11/17/2025 7:39:00 AM PST by Brian Griffin
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Blacks stop attending HBCUs, and Trump wants to keep them solvent with Chinese students?


7 posted on 11/17/2025 7:39:49 AM PST by kosciusko51
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How much of the decline was because of smaller cohorts of graduating high school seniors?


8 posted on 11/17/2025 7:40:07 AM PST by Verginius Rufus
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To: Opinionated Blowhard

“Kids can make more learning a trade than getting a useless degree from a third-rate college and being saddled with massive debt.”

Bear in mind most of the male invaders that intend to do honest work intend to work in the trades.

That’s 15 million male invaders.


9 posted on 11/17/2025 7:41:29 AM PST by Brian Griffin
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To: Opinionated Blowhard

“Good for them. Young people of all colors need to think hard about whether college is worth it. Way too many times its not. Kids can make more learning a trade than getting a useless degree from a third-rate college and being saddled with massive debt.”

Yes indeed. The cultural narrative still holds that everyone should go to College, and that is being pushed everywhere from school teachers and counselors to parents around the dining room table. It needs to stop. I am glad to see that at least some of the stigma of not going to off to College is slowly being eroded. It’s a start, at least.


10 posted on 11/17/2025 7:45:05 AM PST by Languager
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“Chinese students”

I have no problem with such students at the undergraduate level.

Students lacking US citizenship should not be eligible to receive US government funding.

My experience with graduate teaching assistants is that they save professors the trouble of grading student work.

They also prevent the professor from learning why and what students aren’t learning.


11 posted on 11/17/2025 7:46:20 AM PST by Brian Griffin
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Why were they ever subscribed? Public schools should be held criminally liable for the absolute ruin of our industrial and infrastructures workforce.

I worked in a large papermill. Every coworker of skilled trades like steamfitters, welders, electricians, machinists, plumbers, and heavy equipment operators, was between the ages of 55 and 75. It's crisis level bad.

12 posted on 11/17/2025 7:50:23 AM PST by blackdog ((Z28.310) "Diggin the scene with a gangster lean" (Mayfield, Curtis) )
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When I was a graduate TA, the grading part was true. But I did let the professor know when students were having trouble.

However, that was a while ago.


13 posted on 11/17/2025 7:50:25 AM PST by kosciusko51
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My B.A. from a small liberal arts college in 1972 has provided me a lifetime of useful knowledge and enjoyment. My life has been made richer by a traditional liberal education. I don’t regret a moment of it. My successful professional life was only tangentially related.

BUT!!! I paid only $750, and finally $1,000, per semester. It’s too bad that tuition is $30,000 per year for most undergraduates today. There are more attractive alternatives (especially given the sorry state of so-called “liberal education).


14 posted on 11/17/2025 7:51:54 AM PST by oldplayer
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To: karpov; Freee-dame; Opinionated Blowhard; FlingWingFlyer; Languager

The way my mind and hands worked I was destined for a cubicle. I have always considered electricians modern day wizards. Certainly, they made as much or more than I ever did.


15 posted on 11/17/2025 8:01:42 AM PST by Retain Mike ( Sat Cong)
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To: Opinionated Blowhard

So should I stop donating to the United Negro College Fund?


16 posted on 11/17/2025 8:02:59 AM PST by dfwgator ("I am Charlie Kirk!")
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I would suggest they watch a few videos on this site before going to college:

https://www.youtube.com/@constructionmentorpodcast/shorts

I would suggest checking it out to young blacks, whites, Latinos, etc.


17 posted on 11/17/2025 8:10:46 AM PST by boycott
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And the millions of females illegals have anchor babies and apply for benefits paid for by mostly American workers. They all affect us negatively w/r/t business/jobs.


18 posted on 11/17/2025 8:11:14 AM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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Because of AI and Robotics, trade school education is becoming a more lucrative education for young people...


19 posted on 11/17/2025 8:18:19 AM PST by JBW1949 (I'm really PC.....Patriotically Correct)
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Some time between 1972 and now liberal arts went off the rails. It is now a danger to civil society and our country. We are better off without it.


20 posted on 11/17/2025 8:25:48 AM PST by beef (The pendulum will not swing back. It will snap back. Hard.)
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