Howard U. official resigns after mishandling students' G.I. Bill paperwork/ *School sets up separate VA students dept.

[Ozymandeas]

Don't ask me how I know.. I might know someone REALLY REALLY close to me that worked at Howard regarding scholarships and alumni relations.. and I can tell you that they are really fukking inept or CORRUPT as fukk.

Remember the battyman who worked in the scholarship department and balled all over the world on Howard's dime?

We remember him

 

[BushidoBrown]

incompetence

 

[Pegasus Jackson]

We remember him

This nikka had some nerve. I just googled him and ran into his Linkedin. I have NO IDEA who this nikka thinks is gonna hire him in DC as a lawyer.

 

[get these nets]

I was having this thought after another thread about HBCU financial aid offices and after having recently patronized a number of black businesses.

The discussion around ‘micro-aggressions’ and maybe this isn’t even the right term, is always centered around a black - white paradigm. But we never talk about micro-aggressions within a black-black paradigm. There are micro-aggressions that we have to put up with from other black people, businesses, and institutions, whether due to incompetence or socio-cultural norms and there are real tangible negative effects that we are not talking about.

There is no reason why black students should be dealing with this sort of incompetence from our own institutions. And black students are experiencing tangible negative effects due to this.

We need to have a real discussion on this and how we put up with so much nonsense from black businesses and institutions and the harm it’s causing.

Agree.
There are several HBCU alums on the forum. They speak proudly about their positive experiences and very candidly about the negative experiences. Administrators/F.A. office shenanigans are usually part of the negative.
I was a bit naive about this, and I said that after the latest rounds of schools having scandals, govt. .monitoring, financial aid suspensions, and fiscal problems that we wouldn't hear about similar problems at those schools for years.

Howard was just removed from Fed.monitoring in Feb. 2020
. Because of Mr. Rhone, the school was suspended from dealing with the VA in April 2021, and had to clean house to get the suspension lifted.

The members I tagged in OP tried to open my eyes about this before.

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One of the other problems is the remaining Black news media are reluctant to cover or investigate these types of stories. They don't want to put the spotlight on corrupt or incompetent Black people in management positions.

If you're in a leadership position, and Black people suffer because of your corruption/incompetence, you have to be aired out.

 

[MajesticLion]

SpelHouse would never.

This isn't an assertion you want your name attached to

 

[Ozymandeas]

This nikka had some nerve. I just googled him and ran into his Linkedin. I have NO IDEA who this nikka thinks is gonna hire him in DC as a lawyer.

I wouldn’t. When you Google Tyrone his name is one of the first last names that pops up. That’s how you know you a legit scammer. Scammer hall of fame right there

 

[get these nets]

Howard University Boosts Resources for Student Vets After Botched Handling of GI Bill Benefits

The prestigious historically Black college opened a new office that acts as a liaison between the school and the Department of Veterans Affairs after receiving $580,000 in funding from the Department of Education.

www.military.com

Howard University Boosts Resources for Student Vets After Botched Handling of GI Bill Benefits​

With the Founders Library in the background, students walk through the Howard University campus



November 30, 2023
Howard University has boosted resources for student veterans on campus with a massive federal grant that will assist them with key education benefits after the school's troubled history handling military scholarships such as the GI Bill.
The prestigious historically Black college in Washington, D.C., opened a new office Nov. 9 that acts as a liaison between the school and the Department of Veterans Affairs after receiving $580,000 in funding from the Department of Education, according to a press release from the school.


Such offices are commonplace among major U.S. universities, but Howard's resources for veterans and their families have in the past been minimal and almost caused pursuing an education at the school to become a nonstarter for GI Bill beneficiaries.
The move comes two years after a Military.com investigation found the school grossly mishandled benefits of GI Bill beneficiaries, mostly through a series of administrative blunders.


The VA has eligibility requirements for schools to be able to accept GI Bill money from students, and those bureaucratic burdens often require staff at schools dedicated to those beneficiaries.
Administration snafus in 2021 left many of the 200 Howard students who relied on the benefits unable to pay their tuition, with some of those students telling Military.com they were being forced to leave the school.
The situation got so severe, the District of Columbia's State Approving Agency, or SAA, revoked Howard University's ability to allow newly enrolled student veterans to use their GI Bill benefits. But that eligibility was eventually restored.

A spokesperson for the university did not return Military.com's request for an interview ahead of publication.
SAAs are the enforcement arm of VA education benefits, and generally go after bogus schools and other scams, such as a church many described as a cult that was raided by the FBI after years of bilking veterans out of benefits. The GI Bill is broadly considered one of the federal government's most successful programs and is among the most cherished military benefits.
The agency threatening a well-established school such as Howard's GI Bill eligibility isn't unheard of, but was widely seen by advocates and staff within the agency as a rare move. GI Bill students are worth about $6.3 million a year to the school.
After Military.com's reporting on the matter, a Howard University administrator overseeing veteran benefits at the school left his position. The university started offering student veterans a $3,000 no-interest loan, though some students interviewed at the time reported not seeing that offer.
In November 2021, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, or MIT, lost GI Bill eligibility for one of its programs, impacting 20 students at the time, another relatively rare example of VA officials cracking down on legitimate schools over administrative shortcomings.