Effects of Obama Administration Ed Policies on HBCUs

In a recent airing of Carter's show, both President Brown and Dr. Leslie Baskerville, CEO of the National Association for Equal Opportunity in Education (NAFEO) chide the Obama Administration for enacting policy without adequate public engagement. NAFEO has continually lobbied the administration and Congress concerning the effect its policies are having on HBCUs. President Brown suggestively quoting his own grandfather quipped, "a blind man could see what he's doing." Well, what is the Obama Administration doing? Trying to make higher education in America more lean and mean? Or trying to help HBCUs and the families they serve avoid increasing debt? Baskerville maintains that the new Parent Plus Loan criteria are a solution to a problem that doesn't exist. There is no history of failure to pay this particular loan. Is this so? More generally, can the present administration be unaware of the effects its policy is having on enrollment at HBCUs? Might such policy be tied to a failure of President Obama to appreciate the value of historically black colleges and universities? Both President Brown and Dr. Leslie Baskerville, CEO of the National Association for Equal Opportunity in Education (NAFEO,) chide the Obama Administration for enacting policy without adequate public engagement. NAFEO has continually lobbied the administration and Congress concerning the effect its policies are having on HBCUs. President Brown, suggestively quoting his own grandfather, quipped, "a blind man could see what he's doing." Well, what is the Obama Administration doing? Trying to make education in America more lean and mean? Or trying to help HBCUs and the families they serve avoid increasing debt? Baskerville maintains that the new Parent Plus Loan criteria are a solution to a problem that doesn't exist. There is no history of failure to pay this particular loan. Is this so? More generally, can the present administration be unaware of the effects its policy is having on enrollment at HBCUs? Might such policy be tied to a failure of President Obama to appreciate the value of historically black colleges and universities?