House subcommittee -
votes to close SC State
for one fiscal year
CHRONICLE STAFF REPORT
News reports sent
Shockwaves throughout the
community of historically
black colleges and univer
sities (HBCU) Tuesday
afternoon, Feb. 10, upon
die news that S.C. House
want to shut down South
Carolina State University,
based in Orangeburg, S.C.
Jeremy Turnage of
WIS-TV in Columbia
reported that legislators
began what could be pro
longed battle to reign in
and clean up the fiscal slate
at S.C. State.
The battle began just
after 1 p.m. Tuesday when
,the House Ways and
Means Subcommittee on
Higher Education voted 3
to 1 to shut the doors of the
university beginning on
July 1, 2015.
Turnage repots that the
school would be closed for
fiscal year 2015-2016 and
reopen in 2017. During
that time, a Blue Ribbon
Committee would start the
university from scratch
after firing, dismissing and
terminating everyone from
the Board of Trustees to
regular university employ
ees.
The state of South
Carolina would also be on
the hook for all the univer
sity's debts and loans.
As for students, the
plan would help them relo
cate to other schools in the
state if they maintained a
2.5 GPA.
If the plan passes the
Proviso Subcommittee, it
would then head to the full
House Ways and Means
Committee next week.
The issue is being mon
itored close to home in
Winston-Salem. Winston
Salem State University is a
state-supported HBCU.
The S.C. legislature is
controlled by Republicans
just as the North Carolina
legislature is.
There has been concern
that the N.C. legislature
would close Elizabeth City
State University.
In South Carolina,
Turnage reported that S.C.
State released a short state
ment on its Facebook page,
vowing to mobilize school
supporters to help "kill the
measure."
Turnage reported that
Higher Education
Subcommittee Chairman
Rep. Jim Merrill said the
vote is the House's way of
saying they still have not
seen a definitive plgn from
the university about how to
deal with their monetary
troubles.
"It may go through
because of the level of
frustration," Merrill said."
Most of the presenta
tions we heard from State
were just unacceptable.
They weren't taking it seri
ously."
The proviso then went
to the Subcommittee on
Provisos, who voted in
favor of carrying over
debate on the plan until the
House adjourned on
Wednesday.
But subcommittee
members did take several
minutes to debate the
measure and add at least
one amendment from Rep.
Chip Limehouse that
would dismiss each mem
ber of the Board of
Trustees but allow the uni
versity to continue operat
ing.
Meanwhile, Gov. Nikki
Haley's office said: "SC
State's leadership has been
unable to provide straight
answers on the condition
of the schools finances for
months, something she
finds totally unacceptable."
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