National Public Radio tries to wrap its brain around five percent six year graduation rates.
National Public Radio tries to wrap its brain around five percent six year graduation rates.
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January 21st, 2011 at 10:59AM
A key issue here is not whether the (nearly all black?) students at Southern are less likely to graduate than the (more diverse?) students at UNO – it’s whether (comparable) black students do better at a HBCU than at a non-racially-identified institution (and UNO/LSUNO was integrated from the start). If it can’t be shown that they do, then the continued existence of many public HBCUs becomes very hard to defend in the current fiscal climate – saving jobs isn’t much of an argument when the imperative is to cut jobs. We are after all looking at institutions that were in a real sense created to be duplicative, and that are by objective criteria lesser institutions than their likely merger partners.