Posted on 04/20/2024 12:23:59 PM PDT by lowbridge
Duke University’s decision to end a full ride scholarship program for Black students has received both support and criticism from former recipients of the award.
The university announced earlier this month that the Reginaldo M. Howard Memorial Scholarship would be replaced by the Reginaldo Howard Leadership Program, which “will be open to all Duke undergraduates.”
In an announcement published on Duke’s website, the university said it told current scholarship recipients that the transition was necessary “due to the legal landscape related to race-based considerations in higher education.”
“We are reimagining the Reginaldo ‘Reggie’ Howard Scholars program to expand the impact of Howard’s legacy to many more Duke students with a commitment to leadership and social justice,” Duke University spokesman Frank Tramble said in a statement to CNN. “The Reginaldo Howard Leadership Program will elevate the experience of our Black students by enriching their academic connections with faculty, providing funding for internships and research, strengthening community ties, and developing scholarly programming that highlights Black excellence through the Mary Lou Williams Center for Black Culture.”
Last year, the Supreme Court struck down race-based college admissions.
Craig Vincent, a former Reginaldo Howard Memorial scholar who graduated in 2016, told CNN Friday that he was disappointed in the university’s decision to end the scholarship.
The scholarship, Vincent said, was critical to attracting talent to the university. He added that scholars have gone on to become CEOs, authors and have earned PhDs.
“It felt a little bit like the university was reducing the scholarship down to the race of the people that were in it,” Vincent said. “Where they kind of made the interpretation that this… was only a scholarship for Black students and there was nothing else unique or interesting about the folks that made up this pool and therefore they chose to eliminate
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discrimination based on race is explicitly illegal and I hope they get sued
Ok, that’s just stupid, There’s nothing wrong with a black man setting up a scholarship for black students who MAKE THE GRADE.
This sounds more to me that they want to give it trannies.
I hope they get sued more.
From all appearances they already got sued very successfully by the Duke lacrosse players who were unjustly accused of sexually assaulting a sex worker. Which they simply did not do. And the university treated them extremely poorly, and paid for it.
I already didn’t like Duke before that episode. Now I despise them.
There is very intense competition among virtue-signalling elites, to claim the small percentage of high IQ blacks. This is well-known.
All such scholarships do is merely provide more benefits for a very small group that were already going to do very well regardless.
I knew a kid whose parents were medical doctors from Nigeria. Good student, advanced math/STEM classes, strong family. He was accepted at all 7 of the Ivies he applied to. He didn’t qualify for standard financial aid, due to his parents high income, but nonetheless was offered all kinds of “black achievement scholarships” such that he paid nothing (he eventually went to Yale)
I should say conversely, at the exact same time, I knew an Asian boy with the same courses, scores, etc... Wasn’t accepted to even one Ivy.
The former recipients of the award are more than welcome to set up their own scholarship for anyone they want.
BACKFIRE !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
A full ride scholarship is an award that covers all expenses related with college. This includes tuition, books, fees, room and board, and possibly even living costs. - Google.
So that explains why tuition is astronomical. (For Whiteys and Asians).
It is wrong. Imagine a White man doing the same.
I’d support it. Just as I support Christian scholarships, just as I’d support scholarships based on people who only worked at Baskin Robbin’s.
It’s the sponsors money - he can decide what he wants it used for.
Seems kinda communist to me that you want to determine how their money is spent.
It would be racist to only select blacks. SCOTUS has ruled so.
You’re wrong about that, too.
The SC ruled that colleges can’t choose wo’s ADMITTED based on race.
You can be ADMITTED and not afford it and that’s where scholarships come in. All the scholarship has to do is offer funding to those who are ADMITTED, FAIRLY, in a non-racist manner.
Gotta give it to trannies and Hamas
My thoughts exactly!
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