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Howard U. interim president says more than 200 students reenrolled of 502 who received email

By WTOP Staff

Howard University interim President Wayne Frederick told WTOP on Wednesday more than 200 students have been reenrolled of the 502 who received an email last week informing them they had been unenrolled less than a month before the start of classes.

Frederick joined WTOP’s Mark Lewis to talk about the university’s response to the controversy and why it happened in the first place.

Listen to the full interview and read the transcript below.

The transcript below has been lightly edited for clarity.

Howard University president says more than 200 students readmitted after mass unenrollment

By The Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — The interim president of Howard University said over 200 of the more than 500 first-year incoming students who were unenrolled for the fall semester have been readmitted to the Washington, D.C. school. In an interview with The Associated Press on Wednesday, Wayne A. I. Frederick defended the way the historically Black university handled the initial unenrollment, saying many students and their families apparently misunderstood the communicated financial obligations they were expected to meet before the start of instruction in August. “There were no issues as far as what we communicated," Frederick said, adding that the school had been clear since March about unpaid balances for tuition that were due by mid-July. Students who were unenrolled for financial reasons had outstanding tuition balances after their financial aid and scholarships were applied, he said. Others were unenrolled because of unreported immunizations.
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