UNC’s answer to SCOTUS rejection of race-based admissions? FREE school for “certain” folks.
The lefties in Chapel Hill are not taking The US Supreme Court’s blow to UNC’s race-based admissions 
policies lightly. It’s been pounded into our heads that it is wrong and evil to deny something to someone because of their race. But lefties think it’s OK to GIVE rewards to people BECAUSE of their race. Apparently, the majority on the high court — like many of us — are wondering where the whole “content of their character” thing went.
UNC’s chancellor has said the system will now offer FREE tuition to “certain” applicants who come from family incomes below $80,000 per year. In certain parts of the state, a family income of $80,000 can be somewhat comfortable. In many metropolitan (and Democrat-run) areas, it is far from it. Students from families at or above the $80K mark already paid a lot in taxes that has found its way into the UNC coffers. So now they’re expected to pay for other families’ kids TOO?
The UNC announcement reminds me of what my alma mater — George Washington University — did in the late 80s and early 90s. The school promised free tuition to any and all graduates of DC high schools. Nine times out of ten, a “DC high school graduate” translates to “black person.”
GW now costs close to $100,000 per year for full-time students. It was not much less than that when I attended.
The school got around the affirmative action quota stigma, but still managed to stick it to white students. Quite a few white students did not come from families who could afford tuition and fees in the ballpark of $75K per year. But just being born with dark skin earned you a ~$300K benefit and a free education at one of the nation’s top universities.
Attending college full-time in Chapel Hill now will cost you about $26K per year. At the income levels set in the chancellor’s proposal, the beneficiaries of the FREE SCHOOL will more likely than not have dark skin.
Stuff like what’s being done at GW, and now appears underway in Chapel Hill, is a great way to foster and nurture resentment — not bring the races together. If you’re white, you’ll go into debt or have to work a few jobs to pay for school. If your skin is darker (and you fall into this income bracket), there will be no debt for you.
Rewarding the “oppressed” to the detriment of white folks is a vital part of the DEI and CRT nonsense being promoted throughout our nation’s education establishment.
I’ve found, via personal experience and other observations, that “skin-in-the-game” forces people to take an opportunity more seriously than those who have NONE in “the game.” You tend to take something more seriously when you are shelling out cash from your own pocket.
If you truly want to open up the higher education opportunity to more people, why not look for ways to lower the costs of attending college? How about scrapping a lot of the nonsense Gay-Indigent-
special needs-socialist-womens-empowerment type majors and degrees? Killing off things like that removes a lot of expensive deadweight from the faculty, saves on infrastructure costs, and goes a long way to restoring some integrity to our college campuses.
Bring the cost down so students can have some hope of actually getting some return on their and their families’ investments.
This definitely appears to be a way to evade the Supreme Court’s decision banning affirmative action as such. The GOP legislature and GOP UNC trustees need to insure that this is not a scam to promote affirmative action through the back door. The timing of this announcement, however, certainly looks suspicious. And coming from UNC, it probably is.
Damn right it is. Sick of this left wing BS. UNC has totally lost it. Never get another dime from me or many of my friends. It started when Silent Sam was removed most likely by non students and those not paying tuition.
This is the equivalent of the UNC chancellor telling the Supreme Court to bend over and grab their ankles. And it solves the whole student debt problem. No debt when everything is for free. Hopefully the Board of Governors will meet soon and reverse this abomination. And if not, the NCGA should cut off funding. Two can play this game and he who has the ball wins. Oops, in feigned deference to who currently think they have the ball perhaps I should have said, they/them instead of he. If I were the chancellor I’d be polishing up my curriculum vitae!
The UNC Board of Governors, all Republicans by the way, is so clueless that they probably won’t even realize what the chancellor is up to. The legislative Republicans are even more clueless when it comes to fighting the liberals who have taken over the university system. I don’t hold out much hope. You can rest assured that smart, conservative white kids will be screened out by the UNC admissions office. It’s been this way for decades. Republicans still haven’t figured it out.
Are the seats on these university boards being sold, the way Tillis did, instead of filled with policy-oriented conservatives as they should be? This zoo at our universities is caused by our legislature not paying attention. We need real leaders, not special interest prostitutes like Berger and Moore.
We can start looking at the things Florida did to try to fix their univerisies, like eliminating all the far left ideologues who may up the DEI staffs. But to do that, we need a legislature that stops brown nosing the special interests.
The annual cost of tuition and fees in my final year of undergraduate studies in engineering at Auburn University, 1979, was $660. A dorm and meal ticket for a year was about $1000. I’d bet the degree I earned, mechanical engineering, was superior to what Auburn or NCSU teaches today. Our professors were Americans with real- world industrial experience. There was no PC crap and cheating would result in immediate expulsion. I’d advise all young people today to avoid college completely – do as most Swiss do and apprentice to enter a career. You earn good money while learning.
I think it was Jimmy Carter who gave us the NEA. That was the beginning of education in this country going from sugar to $h t.
I hope there are enough of us Patriots that realize it is not the grasp of Communism that we are in but it is the JAWS of Communism that we are in.
If we are swallowed in 24 I’ll see you in the compost pile.
IOWs, the time is upon us to fight like we are the third monkey on the ramp to Noah’s Arc.
Republican oversight of UNC (through its appointed trustees and Board of Governors) once again seems totally lacking. We now learn that the UNC Chancellor apparently took this action on his own without consulting his own UNC trustees! Just how bizarre can it get in Chapel Hill? Of course, the GOP-appointed trustees (and Board of Governors) share the blame because they are the ones who hired this liberal chancellor when they could have hired a conservative instead. This is a tragic lesson in the failure of RINO Republicanism when it comes to university governance in North Carolina.
Jon Hardister has played a leading role in how the legislature handled the universities. The major deficiencies in that oversight are on his doorstep. Who would ever trust him to have oversight over ANY council of state department? He would be another Catherine Truitt, totally useless, much like he has been in the State House.
The UNC Board of Governors must also understand that affirmative action can no longer be practiced by the state”s HBCUs. The BOG should move quickly to abolish the HBCU concept and open them up to all students and hire administrators and faculty without regard to race but only on ability. Legally, the HBCUs can no longer discriminate against white and asian students and white applicants for faculty positions.