Given all of the money that seems to have mysteriously disappeared in St. A’s budgets, it sounds like it’s only painful for the students and alumni.
WRAL reporting St. Aug has started their Fall semester 2 weeks behind schedule to welcome their whole enrollment of 200 students. Every single public Highschool in Raleigh has a graduating class larger than that. That loan might pay out big time for the lender in land acquisition.
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This is getting criminal tbh. Those 200 kids are being swindled…
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This reminds me of a University owned by a former President who took advantage of students wanting an education, but turned out to be a scam. The plug was quickly pulled on his U, and payments mandated for his misdeeds.
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Yeah but he got to be president and is super popular with at least a third of the country. Maybe that’s their long term goal? Lol
I read about the enrollment too. It’s down so much from even last fall. This can’t be good…
Yeah, this won’t end well. Hopefully, those credits transfer easily to other schools when it inevitably fails.
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I feel like this last 20% of the previous years students are the ones that don’t have any other better options.
Wake Tech is an exponentially better choice
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Wake Tech is a great option for regular freshman & sophmores, doesn’t help out a lot if you’re already a senior though. Maybe they are an athlete that can’t find a roster spot anywhere else. I dunno.
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You can get an entire degree from Wake Tech, you don’t need to transfer to a University.
A bachelor’s degree, or an associate’s degree?
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Man, I want St. Aug’s to succeed, hopefully the group that bought them wants that too. I kinda feel like maybe they just need to start over though in order to convince future students to attend.
Consolidate from ~95 ac to ~52 acres. New compact, urban campus. Townhomes around the transitional areas to the adjacent neighborhoods. New mixed-use district @ Oakwood Ave & Hill St → “Oak Hills”.
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This is super cool, I agree, I love the rendering, I hope you’ll make a version that includes their neat historic buildings, especially the lovely chapel.
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Gothic Ventures is for profit venture capital. I can’t imagine they have any interest in this property beyond the potential of getting $100 million of land for $30 million should St. Augustine’s fail.
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Maybe move them to the historic / park area?
That was the goal with selling off 35 acres for development and selling the park space to the city. And maybe an investment in a fresh university campus would be worth it??
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Just tapping the sign
So we agree then! If somehow they could pull off a campus refresh then that would give them a huge bump for continued success!
Not so fast; I don’t think anyone is actually rooting for “an HBCU to fail” - that’s an irresponsibly simplistic description of what’s really being rooted for: a highly unethical and borderline criminal board of directors of an historic, beloved HBCU to be held accountable for their shady decision-making, directly leading to the downfall of said once respected HBCU to the detriment of its students. If being held accountable means being forced to finally shut down and sold in order to return tuition money to those students that have been played - that’s an unfortunate but potentially best-possible-case scenario in order for those students to not START THEIR ADULTHOOD in debt with NOTHING to show for it.
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Really dancing on the rhetorical knife’s edge here.
Unsure what you mean by that. But the point is: nobody is just rooting for this university to fail - it already has. At this point they’ve just managed to drag out the failure to an excruciating degree, all to the detriment of kids trying to start their continued education and find a career. This may very well put those 200 kids a year+ behind schedule on that dream.
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