Then again, the UK is doing its best to out do the US on this one.

Tuition fees: Is England more expensive than US? - BBC News

Huh? The only comments I've made on this issue is that it's flawed logic to say that Sanders policy would lead to the closure of private colleges, and that the level of student debt is a real problem. My point to you was that the use of the phrase "Clinton surrogates" in that article was dubious, at best. Because someone criticizes a candidate's policy it doesn't mean that they are automatically a "surrogate" of that candidate's opponent(s).

I am uneasy with the Trump label, but could live with it for purposes of these discussions. Trump being a deal maker by nature, might actually be able to work more fruitfully with the opposition than a rigid ideologue like Cruz.

Problem for Trump is that he is being goaded by the Left - including, inter alia, Black Lives Matter, Occupy Wall Street, and MoveOn.org (and financed by Soros) - into making statements that make him appear to be a bully and a racist. He might be all that, or it might just be that he hasn't yet learned how to handle that pressure, i.e. he doesn't have his politician chops yet.

The black colleges are an anachronism in the modern era. It's hard for me to feel nostalgic about what were byproducts of Jim Crow.

If they are concerned that students don't want to attend them for whatever reason, then perhaps it's time to change the schools so that people do want to attend them.

I think it's pretty clear he is a bully and a racist, no need to point it out.

That's been pretty clear since his "Mexican rapists" comment, which was way before he was on the radar of the left.

They might not be anachronistic at all. The University of Connecticut is establishing facilities within its new dormitory specifically aimed at giving an assist to black male students who, it theorizes are not keeping up with the general student population in their graduation rates for reasons outlined by a spokesperson for UConn who stated the following:Colleges, whose students are predominantly African-American, may well be providing a valuable service to their community.

What are the graduation rates of these "traditionally black" colleges?

The student loan system in England is very different from the system in the US, as pointed out at the end of that article. That's still a big differentiator, despite the huge increase in UK fees.

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From Spelman to Fisk, the rates are higher than at UConn. The rest are abysmal.

Is that good or bad?

I said "abysmal." I think the lowest achieving schools should be merged with a public university and given an infusion of new administrators and educators and work on reforms similar to UConn's. All of them need to be improved to emphasize academics and not be simply providing farm teams for professional sports.

What may be at play here is that students who do not qualify for entry to regular universities are admitted to these schools, where they simply fail. The missions of the schools need to be reevaluated and changed, not that the schools should simply be closed.

You're spot on here, at least here in the States. You literally do need a college degree to get a job Starbuck's, not because the job requires a college education but because it's the norm now for employers to assume if you haven't had a college education you must be too thick to do the job. It's a vicious circle