Langston University-Tulsa, a historically black college (HBCU), is not allowed to offer a four-year degree, it is afraid to approach.
Lagmakers University graduates, Oklahoma struggled to fight for the protection of HBCU, and the university’s extension campaign has been fighting since the 70s, and this is the war, which is continuing to keep HBCU doors open today.
2854 EV Bill 2854 passes through the state cape to make a four-year degree in public universities in Tulsa. This is a bill, the speaker of the house Kyle Hilbert, can become a reality.
“It is very possible, in fact, weeks in the house,” he said, “He said,” This is a free market principle and is for students, “said Hilbert, Tulsa Press Club said in March.
However, not everyone is exciting in the law of this bill. Some MPs said the Langston University – Tulsa, Senator Regina Goodwin said that he said.
“If you do not have a financially for a successful four-year university, and your courses are a recipe for disaster, and everyone can see that the article is on the wall, and now it is legislative,” he said.
“The bill has declared a moratorium on the following higher education course and software restrictions,” All Tulsa University branch of Tulsa University branch, upper section license and limits to the graduate school. “
To say that it will raise restrictions for the bill, it is important to know the history of these restrictions in Tulsa, Tulsa. In the 1970s, the Federal Government elected only HBCU of the state’s sole HBCU, and the only HBCU of the state, which resulted in the opening of the first public university in Tulsa. Langston came to Tulsa with 16 programs because part of this agreement could not repeat the programs offered by other universities. Goodwin said it was very successful and about 2,000 students.
Langston Tulsa successful success, Oklahoma State University, Oklahoma University and Northeast University landed to open Tulsa camps.
Langston graduates lift the restrictions raising this bill, say they are interested in the future of Tulsa Campus.
“I want to say that all of my grandchildren, my great grandchildren and great grandchildren are langstonites, but the vice-president of Langston University, which is a bill like this, said Tulsa Alumni Union.
“This will result in the unnecessary repetition of the programs, the funds used to strengthen our programs will no longer be competitive. This financial irresponsible and strategic Tone-Kar, President of the University of National Langston Dezz Lewsi.
In the early 2000s, two Langston University graduates appealed to the Civil Rights Security Department, because the recurrent classes of other institutions in the Tölsiya violated the contract at Langston University. Three years ago, the school took $ 14 million to win the court.
The bill passed the house and the Senate will vote on it. If the bill will take effect on July 1, 2025.
