DrBanneker
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Our last report was on Huston-Tillotson University, a small private school in Austin, TX which received a voting average of 5.7.
Today we visit Charlotte, North Carolina's only HBCU, Johnson C. Smith University. Another Reconstruction era university, it was originally founded as the Biddle Memorial Institute due to a $1,400 starter donation from Mary Biddle a White benefactor, who was from a prominent Philadelphia family. It was later renamed Biddle University and finally Johnson C. Smith University in 1923 when Jane Berry Smith, the widow of noted Pittsburgh businessman Johnson C. Smith, donated a large sum to the school. Another large source of funds came from the Duke Endowment, the same source of funding for Duke University. The endowment requires 4% of the money go to JCSU each year which helps explain the relatively large endowment for its size for a HBCU. It has one of the more striking pieces of HBCU architecture, Biddle Memorial Hall, which is the center of campus. It has a recent new STEM building, in part due to its close relationships with Bank of America and Wells Fargo (which absorbed local bank Wachovia in 2008), which will hopefully help elevate one or more of the sciences at what has traditionally been a small liberal arts school.
Basic data (all data 2021 unless otherwise noted)
Founded: 1867
City, State: Charlotte, NC
Type: 4-Year Private not-for-profit
Nickname: Golden Bulls
Enrollment and percent Black enrollment: 1,166 (1,122 undergraduate) 72% (but 24% show race unknown)
Out of State Percentage: 57%
Part-time student percentage: 5%
First Generation Student Percentage: 36%
Percentage of students from households under $30k/over $100k: 54% / 7%
Student-to-Faculty Ratio: 9:1
Admissions Acceptance Rate: 84%
4-yr/6-yr graduation rates: 27% / 39% (but 49% before COVID)
Transfer out rate: 10%
Male/Female percentages (Female:Male Ratio): 43% male / 57% female (1.3:1)
Tuition: $18,944
Median Federal Debt After Graduation: $31k
Median Parent PLUS Loans After Graduation: $30k
Median Earning 10-Years after 10 years from freshman year: $37,073
Median Earnings for specific majors after 3 years after graduation:
Computer and Information Sciences: $39,905, Social Work: $36,337, Business Administration: $33,945
Top Majors by Degrees:
Business Administration, Biology, Criminology, Communications
Endowment: $66.5M (Duke Endowment is substantial)
Alumni Engagement: 16% of alumni donate
Athletic Conference: Central Intercollegiate Athletic Association (NCAA Div II)
Mascot: Golden Bull
Prominent Alumni:
Frederick C. Branch, First African American officer in the United States Marine Corps
Sadye Curry, First African-American woman to become a gastroenterologist in the United States.
Edward R. Dudley, First African-American to hold the rank of Ambassador of the United States, serving as ambassador to Liberia (where he had been serving with the rank of minister) from 1949 through 1953.
Henry Aaron Hill, Fluorocarbon chemist who became the first African-American president of the American Chemical Society (ACS).
Main Campus
Biddle Memorial Hall
Student Union
STEM Center
Irwin Belk Stadium
Luv-A-Bulls Cheerleaders
Rules:
1. Thecoli will be rating most of the 101 Historically Black Colleges and Universities during the first half of 2023.
2. You can rate the HBCU on several factors including academics, the administration, school experience, athletics, post-grad success, and the "talent"
3. You do not have to be an alum/alumna or have attended the HBCU to vote
3. You can rate each HBCU anywhere on a scale of 1-10.
4. The results of the poll will be displayed publicly.
6. This is not a scientific poll, don't take a high or low rating of a HBCU as the full measure of the "worth" of the school, whether someone should attend, etc.
7. The polls will be open for 96 hours
8. Rep and dap as many people as you like and don’t forget to 5 star this thread.
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. In all seriousness, JCSU is an excellent school, and one of the more famous HBCUs.
my dumbass said "No, even though my on-campus living was a condemned building with wiring coming through the roof, even though crackheads regularly stroll on campus, even though campus admin is constantly on the hot seat for embezzling money, even though the number one cause of burnouts for promising students is that they get ran into the ground promoting the university at non-profits because the school can't highlight itself in any other functional way - I want to stay"
these clowns have the train tracks too close so there's only half a stadium. I'd actually give props to the sports medicine spot on campus - if they weren't known for leaving people high and dry when it was time to revisit athletic scholarships. Jamaican junior olympics and amateurs used to work out with our track team and it was a huge statement towards the campus' commitments internationally - but they fukked that up too with recruiting violations.
