The article said the scholarships were pending.
Decades ago, I worked in a college business office. We worked with student’s tuition and fees billings.
Pending scholarships were noted, and transferred to another office, for collection of the pending scholarship funds.
In a case such as this, we would have credited the student’s tuition account with the pending scholarship, as if it had been already paid.
So perhaps there is more to the story. If Howard Univ. itself had granted her a scholarship from their own funds, and had already approved same, it seems odd that they would cancel her out over unpaid tuition from scholarship funds directly controlled by the university.