There are alot of HBCU's that are disappearing and cutting programs because lack of funds. There having to join with other schools and crazy stuff like that just to keep going. Morris Brown VUU just to name some. Yall what is going to happen if HBCU's just keep disappearing and we as a race just keep losing what we worked so hard to achieve?? Would you ever consider going to a white school if your school disappeared or would go to another HBCU.
A school in Compton. It's name is unimportant. I actually have exceptionally well-honed communication skills (I won 3rd place in state for Speech and Debate) but I think that it might go over the heads of many people in here. And what is this forum for if not opinions? I state my opinions, I expect rebuttals. All I get are misquided, inaccurate, and ineffective attacks on my person.
Compton?? :lol: no comment on that.
Theres a problem with your approach and it shows!! Everytime, someone challenges your views, you start to throw out insults. That doesn't show good communication skills, it shows how angry you are. So, find a better respectful way to express your thoughts.
What's the point. I tried it. It doesn't work. Insults are usually the only things you people understand. It's worked for the past 4 years. Somebody prove me wrong. And yeah, the Compton thing, a lot of people laugh. I really dont seem the type, huh?
smh@you people. By the way, what are you doing on a forum for HBCU students? If you can't upift us then go away. Go be with your "people" since we aren't good enough.
Hello Everyone,
I am a 1990 graduate of Stillman College. I have taught at two HBCUs: Stillman College and Texas College. My two cents worth is this: There is a far more serious matter occurring at “Our” institutions of higher learning. I could write a thesis on the subject, but I will simply summarize and hopefully not over simplify. Many of our own people, people that call themselves our leaders, are nothing more than corporate raiders. They become educated, reach the middle class (this from a member of the educated middle class) and find out that they can come to our institutions, set up shop and take, use and abuse at will. I have seen them up close and personal. Their goal is not to educate the next generation, not to inspire them, not to lift them up (they wouldn’t want that because then there would be competition), but rather they want to PROFIT from our institutions. Time and time again, our institutions find themselves in predicaments that administrators have created. All the while, the administrators find themselves among the highest paid group in all of academia (black or white!). this type of behavior will only stop when Alumni and Students stand up and fight for righteousness. Has the entire race forgotten what W.E.B. Dubois taught us about the purpose of our institutions? Remove these parasites from our institutions! Our people have come too far and these institutions mean too much to stand by and watch them fail.
Dr. Lee Allen Aggison
http://www.towerwebsites.com/laggison
Two words: Endowment and Investment!
Some HBUC's are struggling financially because the size of the endowment is not as it should be. Even HBCU's with healthy endowments tend to invest those endowment funds in lower yielding financial programs.
My son's HBCU is considered "struggling". In addition to paying full out of state tuition, fees and expenses, my husband and I donate, participate and are not shy about asking other parents...not alums, to do the same.
If every Alum of an HBCU gave $1.00 per day, per year, many of the HBCU's would be in much better financial condition. If the "Enron's" of the world were completely abolished then much higher returns on the invested endowment dollars would mean overnight financial success for the HBCU's.
This year I informed my college alma maters that I would not be donating one more dollar unless my donation could be designated for a black student (that did not happen). That said, I also informed them that my money would be going to my son's HBCU as they needed my money more than they did.
My undergraduate, graduate and post graduate alma maters all matched my donation to my son's HBCU! They will match for the whole time and every time that I write a check.
Word...
Two words WRONG and ENDOWMENT
Wrong: The problem with HBCUs is not only money. It also is severly crippled by its utter failure to promote diversity. It needs more white people to show black people how they need to act in the real world. Black people are not coddled and babied by corporations and in the job market the way they are at HBCUs. HBCUs prepare their students for an unrealistic version of life.
Endowment: Well, that's more of a personal issue... I am very well endowed.
