Last year, an unnamed administrator at Elizabeth City State University instructed financial aid officials to get students enrolled by any means necessary. One year, a chancellor resignation and dozens of legislative back room meetings later, an audit now reveals what many HBCU supporters feared most, and what opponents had hoped for all along: an HBCU with failed leadership, broken finances, and a lack of community support that can only be saved by the state’s political whims, or closed outright to save the state money.