Can Cheyney University survive? - Nancy Phillips, Susan Snyder, and Dylan Purcell, Philadelphia Inquirer

By almost any measure, Cheyney University — the nation’s oldest historically black college — is failing. Despite its rich and proud history, the financially troubled school has struggled for years to halt plummeting enrollment – now at 755 students, barely half what it was seven years ago. Faced with that decline, the university has admitted less qualified students in a bid for tuition dollars. It now accepts nearly nine out of 10 who apply. Today, only 44 percent of its freshmen make it to sophomore year, the lowest rate in the state university system. And fewer than 20 percent go on to graduate within six years. http://www.philly.com/philly/education/cheyney-university-pennsylvania-hbcu-admissions-graduation-rate-failure-investigation.html