Posted on 05/14/2010 8:33:44 AM PDT by bs9021
Eye on MSI
Bethany Stotts, May 14, 2010
Discussing President Obamas goal that America would once again have the highest proportion of college graduates in the world, an Education Department official recently argued that increased funding for minority-serving institutionsand historically-black colleges and universities, in particularwas the key to increasing the number of American graduates.
We are going to educate our way back to greatness by the year 2020 and as a nation we know we cant do that without MSIs, minority-serving institutions, and HBCUs, argued John S. Wilson, executive director of the White House Initiative on HBCUs at the April 22 Education Sector event.
The reconciliation bill that passed Congress earlier this year allocated $2.5 billion over ten years to MSIs, reported Paul Basken on April 4. Of that sum, $1-billion will go to pay for facilities and programs to help Hispanic students who major in math or the sciences at community colleges transfer to four-year institutions, reports Basken. And $850-million will go to historically black colleges, which can spend it largely at their discretion.
At the forum, Deborah Santiago, the Vice President for Policy and Research at Excelencia in Education said that she had reporters and other people ask her well why, why should we give them [Hispanics] a hand out?
So, [I was like], we are having a great conversation and handout, whoa! she exclaimed.
Um, and for me its looking at it, if you think of it as [a] handout youre looking at it the wrong way and again this speaks to how we frame this and talking about these institutions and its not that its a hand out, she argued. She continued....
(Excerpt) Read more at academia.org ...
Yeah, right.
*Yawn*
And $850-million will go to historically black colleges, which can spend it largely at their discretion ....... now there's the ticket.
All this lathered palaver is done to disguise the raw payback the Obama regime wants to give the academic community. The result will be further watering down of the significance of degrees.
Real world experience counts for nothing if one should apply for a university job. They want their own inbred degrees, hyphenated women, queers and minority preferences. The same goes for these racist, biased and profiled financial handouts. All are skewed against WASP males. It can't be legal, but we're not looking to Holder to start any litigation to set it aright.
HF
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