[*winter*]

This is disturbing.

We as a society seem to keep getting further and further away from the idea that a lot of these colleges were created to address social mobility. It’s not for football or a party or the best years of your life, but to allow people to move from one social class to the next.

We are failing those people if we continuously keep making schools unaffordable to the people who need them the most. I’ve spoken on here about my own school, in the PA State System or Higher Education...which was designed for the same purpose. When I attended, you could get through with modest debt and do okay in life. That was twenty years ago. Now, with the influx of all these special forms and food plans and bells and whistles, they’ve outpriced the same clientele they’re designed to serve.

As a lower income person attending college, there was NO safety net for someone like me in terms of food insecurity or housing issues. However, if I went out, got pregnant, dropped out of college and went back to get assistance...everyone would be willing to help me. We punish people who are trying to change their circumstances. IMO, NO ONE who is going to college should be living in a car!

I have the utmost respect for Howard, since it’s educated some of the people I respect most in life. I hope they get their shit together. These students deserve better.