Bowie State University and Johnson C. Smith University reigned supreme at the annual men’s and women’s CIAA Basketball Tournaments this week, capturing conference basketball titles and securing berths in the […]
Author: Jarrett Carter Sr.
The Art of the HBCU Dark Side
Decades from now, books will be written about the life and times of President Barack Obama. Some of those may detail the president’s legacy on historically black colleges, which from nearly […]
Maryland Gives Us All We Need to Know About Democratic Opposition to HBCUs
Students from Maryland’s four public historically black colleges and universities continued their fight to raise awareness of funding inequity against the institutions with a rally last week in Baltimore City. […]
HBCU Voices of STEM Excellence – Xavier Alumna, NIH Policy Fellow Danielle Haney
Xavier University of Louisiana alumna and National Institutes of Health AAAS Science and Technology Policy Fellow Danielle Haney discusses her path from XULA to a career in immunology, the value […]
Lies, Damned Lies and Statistics: A Breakdown of the Federal Strategy to Close HBCUs
For-profit colleges, in the next few years, will be no more; not because they preyed upon unprepared poor and minority students who wanted degrees, and not because employers refused to […]
Alabama A&M Denounces Campus STD Outbreak Fake News
Officials at Alabama A&M University have shot down rumors of an on-campus sexually-transmitted disease outbreak this afternoon, following a viral message create by an anonymous Twitter account. AAMU responds to bogus […]
Lincoln Posts 100 Percent Licensure Exam Pass Rate, Employment Rate for Inaugural Nursing Class
Three years after earning state approval to offer an undergraduate degree in nursing, Lincoln University’s inaugural class of nurses has achieved perfection in earning professional licenses and employment following graduation. […]
BET President Debra Lee, Anika Noni Rose Respond to Criticism of ‘The Quad’ Among HBCU Presidents
The head of Black Entertainment Television and the star of its new drama series ‘The Quad’ have responded to criticisms from leaders in the HBCU community, most notably, Hampton University […]
Hampton President Slams ‘The Quad’ in Letter to BET President
Shortly after the debut of Black Entertainment Television’s new drama ‘The Quad,’ officials from historically black colleges and universities quietly steamed about perceived inequities in the show’s representation of HBCU […]
Black Students Invested $6 Billion in HBCUs in 2014. And $52 Billion Everywhere Else.
Between 1986 and 1993, total enrollment at historically black colleges and universities increased from 223,275 students to 282,856 — the largest seven-year stretch of enrollment increase for HBCUs as recorded […]
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