Oberlin College's Free Tuition Plan

Founded in 1833, Oberlin was the first institution of higher education in America to adopt a policy to admit students of color (1835) and the first college to award bachelor’s degrees to women (1841) in a coeducational program. http://new.oberlin.edu/

The School's history should shed light on why this program for the High school students that get a scholastic reward. Also get a reward of a free education that will save them roughly around $148 K or $ 45 K a year times 4-5 years of schooling. This needs to be a educational program offered by all community colleges within their perspective states, which would aid in boosting their attendance as well as appeal! Which in turn could offset the debt incurred after graduates complete their degrees.

"The Case of the Negro" - by Booker T Washington

This is a paragraph from this interesting and rude awakening literature from an Ex-Slave turned Educator!

Washington, Booker T. "The Case of the Negro."
Atlantic Monthly 84 (1899): 577-587.

ALL attempts to settle the question of the Negro in the South by his removal from this country have so far failed, and I think that they are likely to fail. The next census will probably show that we have nearly ten million black people in the United States, about eight millions of whom are in the Southern states. In fact, we have almost a nation within a nation. The Negro population in the United States lacks but two millions of being as large as the whole population of Mexico, and is nearly twice as large as that of Canada. Our black people equal in number the combined populations of Switzerland, Greece, Honduras, Nicaragua, Cuba, Uraguay [sic], Santo Domingo, Paraguay, and Costa Rica. When we consider, in connection with these facts, that the race has doubled itself since its freedom, and is still increasing, it hardly seems possible for any one to take seriously any scheme of emigration from America as a method of solution. At most, even if the government were to provide the means, but a few hundred thousand could be transported each year. The yearly increase in population would more than likely overbalance the number transported. Even if it did not, the time required to get rid of the Negro by this method would perhaps be fifty or seventy-five years.

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