Pell Grants as Costly and ‘Harmful’ Welfare?

Diverse Issues in Higher Education by Dr. Ibram Rogers, April 6, 2011 As American politicians and educators continue to slice and dice away at higher education resources and programs using the hollow, yet sharp knives of austerity, the future of a diverse academy increasingly looks bleak and dreary. The widely used justification — the need to cut costs and reduce the national deficit — seems so difficult to conceptualize each time I look at military expenditures, each time I hear about another country the United States has bombed. From the standpoint of diversity, the reformers of exclusion have peeled away at the surface of many of the programs, funding lines and initiatives in higher education that the reformers of inclusion instituted over the course of the 20th century, climaxing in the 1960s and 1970s. Full Story: http://diverseeducation.com/blogpost/342/pell-grants-as-costly-and-harmful-welfare.html