Virginia State University’s Global Warning: How a Small HBCU Became a Canary in the World’s Higher-Ed Coal Mine
Virginia State University, an HBCU founded in 1882 in Ettrick, sits roughly 6,700 miles from the nearest Russian artillery position in Donetsk, 4,300 miles from the nearest Chinese rare-earth mine in Inner Mongolia, and precisely one algorithmic click away from every bored teenager on the planet. Yet the institution’s latest convulsions—budget shortfalls, enrollment dips, and…