May 28, Lolita Buckner Inniss, professor Dedman School of Law, for a piece on the challenges African Americans face in funding college and finding employment that rewards them for their advanced degrees, in the Atlanta Journal Constitution (education blog): https://on-ajc.com/2wqtP3l
The announcement that black billionaire Robert F. Smith intends to eliminate the student debt of the Morehouse College Class of 2019 left me amazed, happy for those students – but more than a little bit jealous.
“Gee,” I thought, “It sure would have been nice if someone had paid off undergraduate and graduate school debts my husband and I incurred.” It took us more than 15 years to pay off that borrowed money. And that doesn’t count the loans and overtime my working class, barely-high-school-educated parents undertook to help fund undergraduate school. (I was on my own for graduate school).
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