Last year, the Supreme Court struck down race-based college admissions.
According to CNN:
Craig Vincent, a former Reginaldo Howard Memorial scholar who graduated in 2016, told CNN Friday that he was disappointed in the university’s decision to end the scholarship.
The scholarship, Vincent said, was critical to attracting talent to the university. He added that scholars have gone on to become CEOs, authors and have earned PhDs.
“It felt a little bit like the university was reducing the scholarship down to the race of the people that were in it,” Vincent said. “Where they kind of made the interpretation that this… was only a scholarship for Black students and there was nothing else unique or interesting about the folks that made up this pool and therefore they chose to eliminate it. That was very saddening to me.”
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