This is the conclusion I've come to, unfortunately.
HBCUs are a necessity, and their historical value cannot be measured, but 107 HBCUs is too many, and without a large population of wealthy donors (as many Black sports players go to D1 PWIs), a thin spreading of exceptional alumnus, the continued weakness of black majority middle and high schools, and funding/administrative issues, they'll continue to fall into negative categories.
The most notable HBCUs: Howard, Spelman, Morehouse, Xavier of New Orleans, Hampton, Tuskeegee, Florida A&M, North Carolina A&T, Bowie, and a few others, have achieved more balance than other lesser known schools.
Because I'm sure this topic will devolve into a comparison of "other races" schools like Yeshiva and Brigham Young Univesity are some of the only affiliated schools in the US, and as such allow a much higher concentration of wealthy Mormons/Jews who have had better educations as children and as such are more likely to have successful careers and be able to donate to the university.
The funding issues are incredibly important because most students cannot afford the cost of full tuition, especially so with Black students, and the schools cannot subsidize the better performing students with scholarships and grants unless they have worse-performing students willing to pay close to full tuition. This leads to the well known financial aid issues concerning a lot of HBCUs.
I don't have a solution
But I definitely just wanted to throw this one out there.
HBCUs are a necessity, and their historical value cannot be measured, but 107 HBCUs is too many, and without a large population of wealthy donors (as many Black sports players go to D1 PWIs), a thin spreading of exceptional alumnus, the continued weakness of black majority middle and high schools, and funding/administrative issues, they'll continue to fall into negative categories.
The most notable HBCUs: Howard, Spelman, Morehouse, Xavier of New Orleans, Hampton, Tuskeegee, Florida A&M, North Carolina A&T, Bowie, and a few others, have achieved more balance than other lesser known schools.
Because I'm sure this topic will devolve into a comparison of "other races" schools like Yeshiva and Brigham Young Univesity are some of the only affiliated schools in the US, and as such allow a much higher concentration of wealthy Mormons/Jews who have had better educations as children and as such are more likely to have successful careers and be able to donate to the university.
The funding issues are incredibly important because most students cannot afford the cost of full tuition, especially so with Black students, and the schools cannot subsidize the better performing students with scholarships and grants unless they have worse-performing students willing to pay close to full tuition. This leads to the well known financial aid issues concerning a lot of HBCUs.
I don't have a solution
But I definitely just wanted to throw this one out there.
