Home Depot has introduced a national ‘Retool Your School’ contest for HBCUs to rally support for campus improvement project. Voting for the contest ends on May 15. And voting returns so far? As of this posting, let’s just say HBCU students and alumni are less than engaged. Far less. How embarrassing is it that an [...]
A fight yesterday evening on the campus of Bethune-Cookman University may have drawn a large crowd, but certainly not the large headlines that accompanied it in this morning’s local coverage of the incident. WFTV in Orlando classified the incident as “Another Large Fight Involving at least 100 Students.” It was, in reality, one small fight [...]
A very interesting segment from WCBD in Charleston on student life as a racial minority on a TWI campus (College of Charleston) and an HBCU (South Carolina State University). Copyright secured by Digiprove © 2010 HBCUDigest.com
Occasionally, we associate historically black colleges and universities with a certain segment of students. First-generation students, students who underperformed in high school but demonstrate a desire to receive higher education, etc. But more often than we realize, some of the best students in the nation are targeting HBCUs to pursue their social and academic objectives. [...]
Since the publishing of a Tennessean article questioning Tennessee State University’s accreditation status in the face of an upcoming SACS review, many alumni and students have vehemently defended the university. Publicly and privately, invested parties in TSU’s reputation have questioned the Tennessean‘s level of integrity and journalistic balance in its reporting on the matter. In [...]
The next time you tune into your morning news broadcast or scan your local online news site, pay special attention to the crime report. The grim chance is that you will see a story on an unfortunate act of violence; a shooting, a stabbing, a murder. The sad circumstance of man and his ills forces [...]
Several HBCUs were listed on the Daily Beast’s 25 Most Dangerous College Campuses. While the methodology may be viewed as inherently flawed (2007-08 crime data from local areas surrounding the listed campuses was factored into the weighting), the numbers that are factual are just that; factual. In order, here are the HBCUs earning the dubious [...]
Dr. John S. Wilson, the newly-appointed Executive Director of the White House Initiative on Historically Black Colleges and Universities isn’t wasting any time bringing his message to the people. Dr. Wilson will be the featured speaker at Mississippi Valley State University’s Honors Convocation next Thursday, and will be the keynote speaker at Bowie State University’s [...]
Alabama State University President Dr. William Harris has taken to the back pages of the Montgomery Advertiser Newspaper to defend his institution against editorial remarks concerning a pending lawsuit against the school. Much has been made in the media in recent days about a lawsuit against Alabama State University alleging certain despicable behavior by some [...]
New York Times sports columnist and Morgan State University alumnus William Rhoden has written a thoughtful and provocative column advocating the expansion of the NCAA National Basketball Tournament. More teams in, the less incentive for mid-majors, particularly the black colleges with the fewest resources around, to schedule murderous non-conference opponents. This is as much about [...]
