Blacks deserve a college education
by Jordan Cooper

Educational institutions that are currently called “Historically Black Colleges and Universities” should be changed to “African-American-serving Degree Granting Institutions”. Historically Black Colleges and Universities in total have an average graduation rate of under 50 percent of their students. Also, they need a new funding formula from their governing boards and the legislatures that oversee them to continue their survival.

Here are a few examples:

Each state has a toll road system that makes hundreds of millions of dollars each year and a portion of this should go to “African-American-serving Degree Granting Institutions” in those states. Furthermore, these colleges should put together technological systems that will keep e-mail addresses used for their colleges active for the duration of the person’s life. This will support the college’s efforts to raise wealth and maintain an operating school.

Black colleges were invented to graduate students to make a positive effect on their pertinent communities. They were not created to be a black hole of loss.

Jordan Thomas Cooper is a 2015 graduate of the University of South Carolina with a degree in History and a 2010 graduate of the RealEstate School of Success in Irmo. He is the first African-American to serve in both the governor and lieutenant governor’s office as an aide and first to serve in the Inspector General’s Office in S.C. (Haley) He is also the first person to serve in the top three offices in the gubernatorial line of succession in South Carolina (Haley, Bauer, McConnell). He says research shows he is the second black presidential campaign speechwriter in American history and the first for a GOP presidential campaign (Bush 2015). He also played football for Coach Steve Spurrier.