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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m not sure why some of you are offended by the idea of closing colleges like Va State.  Nothing is preventing students from going there, if they want to.  The point is that they very clearly don’t want to - and have many more options available to them.  So why is the state pouring money into a school that is not attracting students?  [/quote]

+1. There isn’t a reader on this board would would send their kids to an HBCU agriculture school. [/quote]

VT is also an agricultural school, so what’s wrong with VSU? Have you ever visited a HBCU?[/quote]

What’s wrong with VSU is that they had 5,000 undergraduates in 2010 and have about 3800 today. The market is voting.

I visited VSU multiple times in high school. The same separation is happening with HBCUs as elsewhere. Howard, Spelman, Morehouse, and to a lesser extent Hampton are drawing the best students and leaving others behind.

Hampton in particular is siphoning off students from VSU. Hampton got $30m from McKenzie Scott and its endowment is approaching Howards. [/quote]

The market is reflecting 100+ years of underfunding. [/quote]

BS[/quote]

You’re surprised students don’t want to attend a college that hasn’t been given enough money to maintain the campus and buildings? Maybe if they had been given appropriate funding 100 years ago they could have attracted better students and faculty members over the decades. Funding matters, but the folks that underfunded HBCU’s knew what they were doing. [/quote]

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