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Saturday, August 20, 2011

HBCUs (Historical Black Institutions, including all higher education classifications)


I argue HBCUs offer an experience/opportunity to a "community" college student comparable to those offered by other minority serving institutions. Providing both quality and affordability,  HBCUs have made "at best" on that promise. Dr. Matthew Lynch. who is an Assistant Professor of Education at Widener University, shares both a professional and personal role of an HBCU, Jackson State University, in social and upward mobility in the U.S. I argue that HBCUs graduates have yielded the greater return on human capital for "the love of humanity". Other examples of the role of an HBCU on U.S. citizenship  are inclusions of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr's monument in Washington, D. C. and of Herman Cain's run for President of United States of America in 2012. Each are Morehouse graduates. Human resources contribute too America. 

To Della Britton and others, HBCUs make up less than 3% of the entire landscape of higher education (Besty, 2008). Without their fair share of aid,  HBCUs cannot get enough capital from their graduates to run modern day HBCUs. Desire is "unattainable"; unless, a "course of action" taken by people for many generations. Most 4 year public institutions might agree that cultivating an understanding of philanthropy takes the academic brightest of our time to figure out the how too through the what's next? HBCUs graduates can't devise enough ideas and cannot give enough money to sustain these diverse institutions. Diversity is the choice word for complex. (Frank, 2005) 

Public schools' culture and deteriorating resources make outcomes for HBCU difficult at best. HBCUs educate students of all socio-economic status. HBCUs is where college desire connect with HBCUs pride and expectation for their students.  I am of no illusion. I look to community colleges for inspiration.

References

Frank, M. S. (2005). The history of American management thought: A perspective and analysis. In C. J. Mann & K. Gotz (Eds.), The development of management theory and practice in the United States (pp. 33-63). Boston, MA: Pearson Custom Publishing.