Eye on MSI

Accuracy in Academia ^ | May 14, 2010 | Bethany Stotts

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Eye on MSI

Bethany Stotts, May 14, 2010

Discussing President Obama’s goal that America would “once again have the highest proportion of college graduates in the world,” an Education Department official recently argued that increased funding for minority-serving institutions—and historically-black colleges and universities, in particular—was the key to increasing the number of American graduates.

“We are going to educate our way back to greatness by the year 2020 and as a nation we know we can’t do that without MSIs, minority-serving institutions, and HBCUs,” argued John S. Wilson, executive director of the White House Initiative on HBCUs at the April 22 Education Sector event.

The reconciliation bill that passed Congress earlier this year allocated $2.5 billion over ten years to MSIs, reported Paul Basken on April 4. “Of that sum, $1-billion will go to pay for facilities and programs to help Hispanic students who major in math or the sciences at community colleges transfer to four-year institutions,” reports Basken. “And $850-million will go to historically black colleges, which can spend it largely at their discretion.”

At the forum, Deborah Santiago, the Vice President for Policy and Research at Excelencia in Education said that she had reporters and other people ask her “‘well why, why should we give them [Hispanics] a hand out?’”

“So, [I was like], we are having a great conversation and handout, whoa!” she exclaimed.

“Um, and for me it’s looking at it, if you think of it as [a] handout you’re looking at it the wrong way and again this speaks to how we frame this and talking about these institutions and it’s not that it’s a hand out,” she argued. She continued....

[equalitybeforethelaw]

Yeah, right.

[MHGinTN]

*Yawn*

[Repeat Offender]

Everbody Gaduates. YAAAAAAAY!!!!! Low standerds four evreewon. Look mom, me a Englisch mager.

And $850-million will go to historically black colleges, which can spend it largely at their discretion ....... now there's the ticket.

[holden]

This is so much BS!

All this lathered palaver is done to disguise the raw payback the Obama regime wants to give the academic community. The result will be further watering down of the significance of degrees.

Real world experience counts for nothing if one should apply for a university job. They want their own inbred degrees, hyphenated women, queers and minority preferences. The same goes for these racist, biased and profiled financial handouts. All are skewed against WASP males. It can't be legal, but we're not looking to Holder to start any litigation to set it aright.

HF