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  1. JadeB

    LA Times: Only 28% of STEM graduates work STEM jobs

    What's going on?
  2. BaileyPark31

    Affirmative Action Fallout?

    Can't wait for this shyt to boil over.
  3. JadeB

    After affirmative action, a white teen Ivy hopes rose while A Black teen hopes sank

  4. DrBanneker

    Rate this HBCU: The Closed HBCUs (RIP) Part III

    More of the past HBCUS.... Friendship College Rock Hill, South Carolina 1891-1981 Friendship College, originally the Friendship Normal and Industrial Institute, was established in 1891 after conferences by Black Baptists in York and Chester counties. It originally combined an elementary...
  5. DrBanneker

    Rate this HBCU: The Closed HBCUs (RIP) Part II

    Mary Holmes College West Point, Mississippi 1892-2005 Mary Holmes College was a two-year coed college in West Point, Mississippi. It was founded by a White Presbyterian Minister - Rev. Mead Holmes and his daughter Mary Emilie Holmes as an institute for Black women to train them in homemaking...
  6. B

    Community college is now free for Mass. residents 25 and older. Millions qualify

    https://www.wbur.org/news/2023/08/24/healey-massachusetts-massreconnect-higher-education-cost-free-students Community college is now free for Mass. residents 25 and older. Millions qualify August 24, 2023 Max Larkin Gov. Maura Healey wants to get the word out: Attending community college is...
  7. Biden administration urges colleges to pursue racial diversity without affirmative action#NotBothSides

    Heres the guidance: https://www2.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ocr/letters/colleague-20230814.pdf https://www2.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ocr/docs/ocr-questionsandanswers-tvi-20230814.pdf...
  8. DrBanneker

    Rate this HBCU: The Closed HBCUs (RIP) Part I

    The main series is done but as I stated before there were a few more posts I wanted to do on the HBCUs that have gone out of existence. There are a significant number though almost all were small private schools except for some community colleges in Alabama. It looks like Alabama lost the most...
  9. DrBanneker

    Rate this HBCU (final) Day 94: Tuskegee University

    We last covered Bishop State Community College which received an average score of 6. See the updated leaderboard here Today we cover the final school that will receive a standalone Rate this HBCU thread, and this school needs no introduction. Tuskegee University is one of the most storied...
  10. DrBanneker

    Rate this HBCU Day 93: Bishop State Community College

    We last covered Benedict College which received an average score of 7.3. See the updated leaderboard here Today we cover the final community college HBCU, Bishop State Community College (BSCC) in Mobile, AL. BSCC was established in 1927 as the Mobile branch of Alabama State University to offer...
  11. DrBanneker

    Rate this HBCU Day 92: Benedict College

    We last covered Southern University at New Orleans which received an average score of 6.3. See the updated leaderboard here We turn back to Columbia, South Carolina, where we previously covered Allen University, to look at the last school in South Carolina in the series, Benedict College...
  12. DrBanneker

    Rate this HBCU Day 91: Southern University at New Orleans (SUNO)

    We last covered Shaw University which received an average score of 8.4. See the updated leaderboard here Today we look at our last school in Louisiana, the third undergraduate institution in the Southern University System, Southern University at New Orleans, known as SUNO. SUNO has an...
  13. DrBanneker

    Rate this HBCU Day 90: Shaw University

    We last covered Jarvis Christian University which received an average score of 6. See the updated leaderboard here Today we start the countdown to the final five HBCUs that will be covered in the series. We go to one of the most impactful, yet least chronicled, small HBCUs, Shaw University of...
  14. DrBanneker

    Rate this HBCU special edition: Morris Brown College

    This is a special edition of Rate this HBCU covering the newly re-accredited Morris Brown College. There will not be a traditional poll since initial progress is still being made but rather an opinion poll about where you think MBC's future lies. Morris Brown was the first Black founded and run...
  15. DrBanneker

    Rate this HBCU Day 89: Jarvis Christian University

    We last covered North Carolina Central University which received an average score of 7.9. See the updated leaderboard here Today we check out the small Christian University, Jarvis Christian University in Hawkins, Texas, about thirty minutes north of Tyler where the HBCU Texas College is...
  16. DrBanneker

    Rate this HBCU Day 88: North Carolina Central University

    We last covered Talladega College which received an average score of 7. See the updated leaderboard here We will now cover the final large public HBCU, North Carolina Central University (NCCU). The second largest HBCU in North Carolina behind North Carolina A&T, NCCU was one of the last HBCUs...
  17. DrBanneker

    Rate this HBCU 88: North Carolina Central University

    We last covered Talladega College which received an average score of 7. See the updated leaderboard here We will now cover the final large public HBCU, North Carolina Central University (NCCU). The second largest HBCU in North Carolina behind North Carolina A&T, NCCU was one of the last HBCUs...
  18. DrBanneker

    Rate this HBCU Day 87: Talladega College

    We last covered Lawson State Community College which received an average score of 5.5. See the updated leaderboard here Talladega College has a long history as the first private HBCU in Alabama. For many years, it was considered one of the premier liberal arts HBCUs second only to schools such...
  19. DrBanneker

    Rate this HBCU Day 86: Lawson State Community College

    We last covered Morris College which received an average score of 5.7. See the updated leaderboard here Today we cover another HBCU vocational/community college, Lawson State Community College of Birmingham. It offers liberal arts and vocational courses including manufacturing...
  20. DrBanneker

    Rate this HBCU Day 85: Morris College

    We last covered Albany State University which received an average score of 6.7. See the updated leaderboard here Today, we head to Sumter, SC east of Columbia to visit Morris College, a small liberal arts HBCU in South Carolina. Originally started as a Baptist school that contained a grade...
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