Howard’s Mass Unenrollment Is a Timing Failure Dressed Up as a Compliance Failure
Howard University unenrolled hundreds of incoming freshmen from the Fall 2026 semester in the weeks before move-in, and the university’s explanation does not hold up against the mechanism actually driving the fallout. Howard says the students missed enrollment requirements: unpaid tuition deposits, missing payment plans, undisclosed outside scholarships, incomplete financial-aid paperwork. That framing treats every…