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The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was delete. Well, nobody wants to keep, and merging has no consensus.  Sandstein  20:32, 9 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

HBCU Closure Crisis[edit]

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Reason Broadmoor (talk) 04:38, 17 September 2015 (UTC) This is page is a candidate for deletion because it's simply grossly inaccurate and misleading information[reply]

1.) There's no HBCU Closure Crisis. There's over 100 HBCUs and only three small schools closed in the last 10 years. Please see Defunct HBCUs 2.) Some HBCUs have money problems mostly due to discriminatory funding but that doesn't mean they're on the brink of closing. Actually many studies suggest that HBCUs are still managing to strive and enrollment is increasing.[1] Louisiana State University, a flagship university, is experiencing serious money problems but it continues to operate and thrive so money problems aren't exclusive to HBCUs nor synonymous with closure.[2] 3.)The writer of this page stated that South Carolina State University was closed for Fall 2015 which isn't true, that HBCUs lose 12,000 students per year which isn't true, and that HBCUs account for a large percentage of black undergraduate students which also isn't true (HBCUs accounts for less than 15%}. I removed two of the three false comments but they can quickly be found in the history of the page edits. So the writer clearly wrote biased, ill-informed, and misleading content.

I can provide more reasons if necessary but I feel the three points mentioned are strong enough to delete the page to help savage the integrity of Wikipedia.Broadmoor (talk) 04:38, 17 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

  1. ^ http://hbculifestyle.com/student-enrollment-at-hbcus/
  2. ^ http://www.huffingtonpost.com/r-kyle-alagood/lsus-possible-bankruptcy-_b_7149140.html
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, -- Sam Sailor Talk! 14:04, 24 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment. The article is certainly oversensationalized. Most of the colleges mentioned in the article as having closed did so more than 20 years ago, so they should probably not be considered to be part of a present-day crisis. --Metropolitan90 (talk) 03:46, 25 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete - as per nom. Nothing to show there is really a "crisis" regarding this topic. Onel5969 TT me 03:37, 1 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, -- Sam Sailor Talk! 10:40, 1 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This debate has been included in the list of Schools-related deletion discussions. North America1000 11:29, 1 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This debate has been included in the list of United States of America-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 03:23, 6 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]
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