So that “meeting” with the HBCU presidents was supposed to be a conference with DeVos and other Cabinet officers. Instead, Trump hijacked the scheduled meeting for a grip-and-grin photo op (with added couch entertainment) and most of the presidents never got to speak about policy.

The president of Dillard U:

On Friday I learned that I was selected to give remarks today for the meeting at the White House with members of the Trump administration, most notably Secretary Betsy DeVos. We learned this weekend that there would be closing remarks by Vice President Pence, but the goal was for officials from a number of Federal agencies (about 5 were there including OMB) and Secretary DeVos to hear about HBCUs.

That all blew up when the decision was made to take the presidents to the Oval Office to see the President. I’m still processing that entire experience. But needless to say that threw the day off and there was very little listening to HBCU presidents today- we were only given about 2 minutes each, and that was cut to one minute, so only about 7 of maybe 15 or so speakers were given an opportunity today.

More at the link.