HBCUs are struggling to survive
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KinksandCoils
African American Queen
I respect black colleges, but i could never attend one 
I knew this years ago that employers especially in fortune 500 companies look at the school u attend and make assumptions about the type of learning u'll receive. a brother or sister from a local community college has a better chance getting a job before someone from a black college, that's just the way it is
I knew this years ago that employers especially in fortune 500 companies look at the school u attend and make assumptions about the type of learning u'll receive. a brother or sister from a local community college has a better chance getting a job before someone from a black college, that's just the way it is
Field Marshall Bradley
Veteran
It doesn't apply to most employers\people....
I am willing to wager that 75% of so called black professionals over the age of 36 and up, went to HBCU at one point in their collegiate career...
Yall have no idea of what you're speaking on........
Jesus Shuttlesworth
I Got Game
Never said I did. Just speaking from what people have told me who go to FAMU. I live in tallahassee and went FAMU's high school and that shyt was wack. I knew damn well I wasn't going to the college
I went to FAM.
But I was just agreeing with you but putting it on a grander scale. I'm just clarifying: shyt is fukked up.
Funny thing is my mom's first cousin went to an HBCU and wouldn't allow her kids to go to one. I'm in that same boat because they really do need to get their act together. It makes no sense.
I was in the FAMU/FSU engineering program too. My white counterparts were getting better grades because I'm waiting on a refund check to buy books.
It's like being from the hood though. I loved that shyt but wouldn't wish that life on anybody.
Dameon Farrow
Superstar
Some of these posters in here are making stuff up. Aside from integration, which definitely had a hand, you also have alumni not giving back like that. Take Southern University Baton Rouge and LSU. You think Jindal's cuts only applied at SU? I can tell you they didn't. But alumni with money is giving back to LSU in large numbers so they are straight. Not so much at SU.
Field Marshall Bradley
Veteran
can't speak about other HBCUs, but schools like Howard, Morehouse, Spelman....if yo GPA and internship game is crisp, u will have no problems...companies will hire u to fill that quota....if u was a mediocre student like me at these colleges then......good thing I dont plan on working in corporate America tho
Majority of black successful doctors, lawyers,engineers, and dentists I know went to HBCUs......
Freedman
Choppers For Karate Nggas
I respect black colleges, but i could never attend one
I knew this years ago that employers especially in fortune 500 companies look at the school u attend and make assumptions about the type of learning u'll receive. a brother or sister from a local community college has a better chance getting a job before someone from a black college, that's just the way it is
Field Marshall Bradley
Veteran
The posters on this site lose more credibility by the hour my dude
Dameon Farrow
Superstar
Stigmas these days are applied to folks with college degrees that don't have experience. I think you guys are missing the broad point. If your resume has no experience The HR lady lookin like . Kats are bears about experience these days. Many folks with these degrees sleep on volunteer or intern work. They say they can't afford to do it with bills. That's why you do it during school instead of doing whatever else. Have that on your resume. It may even lead to a job automatically after you graduate with whoever you volunteered with. 'We might as well hire so and so. So and so just graduated. Don't gotta teach them nothing because they are already hip and a good worker. Don't wanna lose them to someone else." Heck of a lot more of a chance than the alternative.
. Kats are bears about experience these days. Many folks with these degrees sleep on volunteer or intern work. They say they can't afford to do it with bills. That's why you do it during school instead of doing whatever else. Have that on your resume. It may even lead to a job automatically after you graduate with whoever you volunteered with. 'We might as well hire so and so. So and so just graduated. Don't gotta teach them nothing because they are already hip and a good worker. Don't wanna lose them to someone else." Heck of a lot more of a chance than the alternative.
KinksandCoils
African American Queen
I'm not saying it applies to most. But it's a discrimination that happens.
Say a white man in a corporate office has the opportunity to hire one person. He has 2 options both are black, he barely likes black people in the first place. Both are equally qualified one has went to an hbcu and one has went to a majority white school.
Which black guy is he most likely to pick? It's pretty clear that if he already doesn't like black people he is gonna discredit the majority black school.
If jobs will discriminate against u for the tone of your skin, your hair, how you dress than they can and will discriminate against what school u went to as well.
I'm not saying it's so big ass issue to where people shouldn't go to hbcu's.....shoot I wouldn't mind going.
Clark Wayne
Superstar
Exactly! I know plenty of people who I graduated along with who went straight to FAMU, and every year this same shyt happens. Then they had the shyt with the band not too long ago and the accreditation has come into questions as well. shyt is bushes status.I went to FAM.
But I was just agreeing with you but putting it on a grander scale. I'm just clarifying: shyt is fukked up.
Funny thing is my mom's first cousin went to an HBCU and wouldn't allow her kids to go to one. I'm in that same boat because they really do need to get their act together. It makes no sense.
I was in the FAMU/FSU engineering program too. My white counterparts were getting better grades because I'm waiting on a refund check to buy books.
It's like being from the hood though. I loved that shyt but wouldn't wish that life on anybody.
Clark Wayne
Superstar
Another great point. The FSU boosters and alumni down here have no problem donating some stacks to the school. Just like you said about SU, the same shyt can be said about FAMU.
Freedman
Choppers For Karate Nggas
Man I hate to say it cause there's already enrollment issues but alot of HBCU negative image probably comes from there admission standards. Some people that get in don't belong or just come to do the wrong thing .
Piff Perkins
Veteran
It's a catch 22 IMO. On one hand HBCU have a great opportunity to compete with larger universities by slashing their tuition prices, which would make them far more appealing to students (of various colors). On the other hand, doing that might make their financial issues worse in the short term.
And then there's the issue of employers. If you go to Howard you probably won't have a problem finding a good job in your field, however there are plenty of smaller HBCUs that aren't worth the paper the diploma is printed on - no offense. Granted the same case be said of smaller schools in general, not just HBCUs.
Ultimately I think community colleges are the future, at least right now - before they start jacking up prices too.
And then there's the issue of employers. If you go to Howard you probably won't have a problem finding a good job in your field, however there are plenty of smaller HBCUs that aren't worth the paper the diploma is printed on - no offense. Granted the same case be said of smaller schools in general, not just HBCUs.
Ultimately I think community colleges are the future, at least right now - before they start jacking up prices too.