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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]

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You can't force black students to attend schools they aren't interested in.  In fact, why are some of these posters trying to do exactly that?  Students will decide where THEY want to go and they certainly don't need certain busybodies insisting they attend HBCUs if the students *don't want to.*[/quote]

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