The scholarship is named in honor of Reginaldo “Reggie” Howard, Duke’s first Black student government president who died in an automobile accident during his sophomore year in 1976.
Duke is discontinuing its Reginaldo Howard Memorial Scholarship Program, a program for “top applicants of African descent,” in the wake of last year’s Supreme Court decision that ended race-based affirmative action in college admissions.
It was always about taking away opportunities for black people to succeed.
It’s so strange that all these Republican-led bills seem to target women, minorities, and poor people! What a crazy coincidence
Hey now, they also write bills that target white men too. It’s just purely a coincidence that those bills cut taxes.
Well yeah they weren’t really pretending otherwise
They ending legacy admissions too or admitting kids just because their parents donated money?
I don’t think it’s lawful to change a contract price mid contract like that, right? I mean, you tell me I am getting 4 years for free on paper; I’m getting 4 years for free. Don’t care wtf happens, I got the contract right here.
Either that or I’m suing for more. You’re covering my move to a new college campus, expenses in the interim, and my tuition at that school. And fuck it, emotional damages.
I think it means they are not awarding any new scholarships in the future. I don’t think that it nullifies any existing awards. It’s been awarded to something like 900 African American students over the years, most of whom would not have been able to attend otherwise.
Are they adding another general applicant scholarship in its place? Are they removing a general applicant scholarship to even the field?
It looks like they are shifting the funds into a leadership program. I’m not exactly sure what that means
It means money into spoiled white boys hands only.
I’m guessing that’s their nepotism program
This is the first thing I thought, some executive at that college has a pet project they need to fund I bet
But the oldest form of racial and class discrimination, legacy admissions, will continue without issue.
They (meaning the GOP) wants to make sure the “right” kind of people (meaning white evangelical men with conservative brain washing) are the out people being educated.
