Perspectives: The Future of Public HBCUs Depends On Exceptional Leadership
HBCUs make up 3 percent of colleges, but 23 percent of Black graduates. Surely, Black institutions add value to American higher education. The question is how can they contribute more?
February 20th, 2008 at 2:40 pm
Your observations are very cogent at this particular time as FAMU and TxSU go through some grueling scrutiny by the states in which they reside. Attacks on state HBCU will increase, in my humble opinion, over the next ten years as state tax payers revolt against them. The revolt will come in the guise of reducing the redundancy of spending represented by their existence in light of the fact that all (?) students can attend the better funded majority institutions so the need for \
February 20th, 2008 at 5:39 pm
Minority institutions’ viability is made valuable when the majors our students involve themselves in are compared with the majors our Black children leave majority institutions with. When you look at the number of Black students on these majority campuses, excluding student athletes and others recruited for specific purposes, its appauling the watered down majors they are hearded into and the percentage of them graduating at all.