Poll: Where do you stand on free tuition to state colleges and universities

[MADem]

5. It should be affordable. Very affordable.

People devalue things that are free, and this scheme will destroy HBCUs.

http://www.buzzfeed.com/darrensands/clyburn-sanders-education-plan-is-a-disaster-for-private-hbc#.og5Pl2JORR

Clyburn: Sanders’ Education Plan Is A Disaster For Private Black Colleges

“You’ve got to think about the consequences of things. [If] you start handing out two years of free college at public institutions are you ready for all the black, private HBCUs to close down? That’s what’s going to happen.”

posted on Feb. 21, 2016, at 1:23 p.m.

ORANGEBURG, South Carolina — Days after endorsing Hillary Clinton, Rep. Jim Clyburn has a specific and sharp critique of her opponent: Bernie Sanders’ education plan would threaten the existence of smaller, private historically black colleges, Clyburn told BuzzFeed News in an interview.
The third-ranking Democrat in the House is one of the fiercest and most prominent champions for historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) in politics.
The next Democratic primary contest is here, where Clyburn is immensely popular. He said he will speak on Clinton’s behalf at Union Baptist Church in Charleston on Sunday — and also to Clinton herself to map out a game plan about whether the two will campaign together in South Carolina before the Feb. 27 primary.
But on Saturday he told BuzzFeed News in a telephone interview that while he acknowledged Sanders’ campaign is gaining traction with college-aged students in South Carolina, the education plan they’re attracted to doesn’t protect institutions like nearby Claflin University, which is private.

Maybe people will start to understand why Sanders didn't get a rousing reception at Morehouse. His plan, in effect, will help to close schools like that, which are part of our history and for a time were the ONLY institutions where a "colored person" (which was the polite term at the time) could get an education in some states. Even in the "liberal" states, there were often quotas imposed on black applicants at private unis, and good luck affording the tuition at many of those places.