The scholarship is named in honor of Reginaldo “Reggie” Howard, Duke’s first Black student government president who died in an automobile accident during his sophomore year in 1976.
Duke is discontinuing its Reginaldo Howard Memorial Scholarship Program, a program for “top applicants of African descent,” in the wake of last year’s Supreme Court decision that ended race-based affirmative action in college admissions.
Are they adding another general applicant scholarship in its place? Are they removing a general applicant scholarship to even the field?
It looks like they are shifting the funds into a leadership program. I’m not exactly sure what that means
I don’t think it’s lawful to change a contract price mid contract like that, right? I mean, you tell me I am getting 4 years for free on paper; I’m getting 4 years for free. Don’t care wtf happens, I got the contract right here.
Either that or I’m suing for more. You’re covering my move to a new college campus, expenses in the interim, and my tuition at that school. And fuck it, emotional damages.
I think it means they are not awarding any new scholarships in the future. I don’t think that it nullifies any existing awards. It’s been awarded to something like 900 African American students over the years, most of whom would not have been able to attend otherwise.
