Rate this HBCU thread series: new for 2023

[DrBanneker]

Rate this HBCU Day 8: Johnson C. Smith University

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...

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[DrBanneker]

Rate this HBCU Day 9: Paine College

Yesterday we covered Johnson C. Smith University which had a great history but a very mixed bag of reviews and an average score of 4.9. Today we are covering another very small Christian college. One similar to the previously covered American Baptist College in origins except that its origins...

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[DrBanneker]

Rate this HBCU Day 10: University of Maryland Eastern Shore

Our last profile was Paine College in Augusta, Georgia that received an average score of 6. Paine College has had its troubles over the years but most were hopeful it would make a recovery. Today we cover one of the Maryland HBCUs, the University of Maryland Eastern Shore. Maryland, one of the...

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[DrBanneker]

Rate this HBCU Day 11: Rust College

Yesterday we looked at the University of Maryland Eastern Shore (UMES) and gave them an average rating of 6.7. Today we cover a small HBCU, less than 800 students, but with a lot of history. Rust College, originally Shaw University, was one of the first HBCUs established by Methodists and the...

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[DrBanneker]

Rate this HBCU Day 12: Harris-Stowe University

Last time we covered Rust College in Holly Springs, Mississippi which garnered an average score of 7.5 Harris-Stowe is one of two HBCUs in Missouri and is a public, open enrollment school. Created by the merger of White and Black teacher training schools after Brown v. Board, the field of...

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[breakfuss]

Thank you for putting this series together @DrBanneker. Learning about the smaller, lesser known schools has been nice. Probably one of my biggest regrets was not attending one myself. A lot of that was driven by my own ignorance so, again, thank you for this. Hopefully my daughter strongly considers.

 

[DrBanneker]

Rate this HBCU Day 13: Xavier University of Louisiana

Yesterday we looked at one of the two Missouri HBCU's, Harris-Stowe University, which gained an average score of 7.6. Now we go down to Nawlins' where we have one of the most unique HBCUs in the country. The only Catholic HBCU, founded by St. Katherine Drexel, nun and daughter of a wealthy...

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[DrBanneker]

Rate this HBCU Day 14: Stillman College

Previously we looked at Xavier University of Louisiana, the med student factory which earned a high average score of 8.7. This is for @DropTopDoc . Stillman College is located not far from the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa despite it being much smaller--not even 1,000 students. Founded by...

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[Cereal_Bowl_Assassin]

@DrBanneker @ me when you do one for Saint Augustin College in Raleigh

 

[DrBanneker]

@DrBanneker @ me when you do one for Saint Augustin College in Raleigh

holy crap that was actually the next one I was going to do

 

[Alvin]

why did you delete day 2? @DrBanneker there was an author who graduated from there that I didn't get the name of but wanted to read his book.

*EDIT no big deal I got his name saved

 

[DrBanneker]

Rate this HBCU Day 15: St. Augustine's University

We last covered Stillman College of Tuscaloosa, Alabama with an average score of 7.25. We now head back to North Carolina to look at Saint Augustine's University, a small but historic university in Raleigh. Another early Reconstruction college, it was founded by Episcopal clergy in 1867 to help...

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[DrBanneker]

Rate this HBCU Day 16: Prairie View A&M University

Yesterday we toured St. Augustine's University in Raleigh which obtained an average score of 6.5. Today we turn to another land grant HBCU and only one of two public universities in Texas. Prairie View A&M University (abbreviated PVAMU) was founded in 1876 as a shrewd addition to the 1876 Texas...

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[DrBanneker]

https://www.thecoli.com/threads/rate-this-hbcu-day-17-shorter-college.958327/

 

[Bryan Danielson]

Aggie Pride.

We have a HBCU Cookout in the summer. And it’s all love