...and THAT’s the other reason tuition is so high.

Well, it looks like phase 2 of the plan is to now infect black men with police bullets.

Private universities are just as bad. The only difference with a public university is the private ones screw you while smiling.

The worse thing about this “experiment” is that they already knew what syphilis would do the human body because there were loads of research on it (remember, syphilis has been around pre-Napoleon). The reason for this, and the only reason: they wanted to see what it would do to the Black body because they believe(d)…

Exactly!  Colleges can not claim they are doing everything they can to make their school affordable while sticking to such draconian housing policies.

My law school did this to me!!! I sent them the payment confirmation and was like GET THE SHIT FIGURED OUT LIKE YESTERDAY I WILL SUE YOU WITH THE NEW DEGREE I DON’T HAVE.

“But it was just a joke, dude!!!”

They used a black nurse. WTF? Damn.

Damned straight, brother.  I started my habit of demanding a receipt of everything when I was at my first undergrad school and the financial aid office asked for a copy of my DL for the 3rd time in a month, claiming that I hadn’t actually been there and made the copy in their own office the first two times.  For the…

That was my experience ever damn semester in college. Nothing like working trying to get my coursework done while working 32+ hours a week to make sure I could pay off the current semester so my grades could be recorded. If I couldn’t come up with the $$ the registrar would record my grades *in pencil* and I’d have…

Clark Atlanta’s crisis is indicative of the problems of many small colleges...these kinds of issues become prevalent, especially at historically black colleges.<<<

My university has really started panicking because they can’t fill all the spots in their fancypants apartment buildings that they build in conjunction with a private company a few years ago. We invested millions into them, then signed the management (and most of the profits) over to the private company (yaaaay,…

When I got my master’s degree, I made sure to keep every single document and email that had ever been exchanged with my school.  Sure as shit, when my diploma didn’t arrive in the mail, they claimed it was because I hadn’t paid the extortion known as the “graduation fee”.  So, I sent them copies of my payment and…

I started out at an HBCU and finished at a PWI. The main lesson I learned from an HBCU is exactly what you said. I was a Sophomore and the registrar’s office was still trying to put me on financial hold because claimed they didn’t have my high school diploma.

Also can confirm. Walked my son through college enrollment recently. Everywhere wanted to go, he either had to be still ‘living’ at my house or in Campus dorms.

Yeah, but the point is she might not have to do anything or pay a filing fee and draft a complaint (which is probably simply beyond most people, though it’s also beyond some lawyers, sadly).  I don’t know whether GA’s consumer protection unit is any good, but I saw Lisa Madigan’s office (Illinois) steamroll a shitty…

Same shit happened at my state school, except they also wiped your class schedule on top of not giving you a place to live. Once had that happen to me due to a $500 deficit—which was actually the exact same amount as the work-study award I was supposed to receive. They acknowledged their mistake, but the deed was done…

Puts two Tubs in the collection plate. Schools hate to compete for services. Housing is the last thing many can hold onto. Schools with very limited housing never seem to have a viable solution for dealing with students that are not getting along or don’t mesh personality wise. Waiting until the next semester to make…

“Dr. Sara Goldrick-Rab, a professor of Higher Education Policy and Sociology who researches college housing at Temple University, says colleges force students to live on campus oftentimes because colleges view housing as a money-maker.”

I wouldn’t let the fee go, it’s the principle of the thing. I would really urge her to, at a minimum, file a complaint with the Attorney General’s office: http://www.consumer.ga.gov/consumer-services/filing-a-complaint