WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Some students protested at Howard University on Friday, sticking colored notes full of complaints and demands onto pillars in the administration building.
Not Chinae Nwaokoro – she was too busy rushing around campus trying to straighten out her financial aid for the semester. After waiting in one very long line, the nursing student was told “they lost some papers. So I didn’t get my money yet.”
Other students said they were going from faculty office to faculty office, pleading with professors to add them to class lists because they were unable to register online. “They need to fix this,” Nwaokoro said.
The school year got off to an especially hectic start this fall at Howard, the iconic historically black university whose students are staunchly loyal to the school even as they demand improvements.
They love the history, the legacy, the culture, the classes, the friendships they form. But they’re tired of persistent problems at a school with troubled finances.
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