Howard University (One of the top HBCUs) is 25% men, 19% Black Men and dropping lower over time

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When you see how long these kids today of all races stay on to watch streamers: Kai Cenat one day, iShowSpeed the next, Logan Paul the day after, etc. then it’s no surprise.

At least when we were young Weekday cartoons stopped at 5:30PM. At least when we were a teenager popular shows used to only be on from 8:00PM to 10:00PM.

Now you have cats who are streaming 8+ hours per day and kids who are online for nearly the whole thing every single day. Go on Twitch right now and look at how many viewers are watching streams. That’s crazy.

If you played outside or chilled with friends you were usually done when it got dark. Even when we had chatrooms they weren’t all that widespread.

Watching streams today ends with so so so much time wasted with NOTHING to show for it. These kids aren’t even watching folks play video games to learn new strategies. They’re watching people literally surfing the web.


Whats the difference in that and posting on thecoli or twitter all day. Or playing video games,watching porno and anime?
 

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I'm Morehouse, but yea like someone said in this thread earlier, all the top companies recruit from there to fill their diversity quota. I'm a recruiter and from a company standpoint, they can research and assume a candidate is black off their name at a NYU but they would have a better chance if they just picked a Howard or a Spelman. With that being said, they only look at Spelhouse and Howard tbh, but Gen Z sees how expensive college is and realized people can't afford retirement or to buy a house and say what's the point.
 

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A whole lotta people talking out of their ass. Is Howard perfect? No not at all, but I don’t think you can find a campus in America, hell maybe even the planet, that boasts the type of campus culture and opportunities that Howard does as it pertains to Black students and the Black experience in higher education.

The ratio is definitely crazy tho, it’s pretty much impossible as a male student to not get with someone. But overall, I’ve seen HU grads go on to do great things so let’s try to balance this discussion between the realities of people actually out in the world and the hoe ass woe is me energy that do nothing nikkaz like to have nowadays.
 

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I'm a PWI graduate. I am not knocking Howard academically, but I am knocking it price wise. I got accepted into Hampton and Howard but the cost kept me away. I took my butt right to Old Dominion and graduated with only 15k in student loan debt. In state tuition is a life saver. That would not have been the case at either HU. With that said, I am pro HBCU at the state level. As an engineering major, I regret not applying to North Carolina A&T and gaining residency after a year.
 

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I'm a PWI graduate. I am not knocking Howard academically, but I am knocking it price wise. I got accepted into Hampton and Howard but the cost kept me away. I took my butt right to Old Dominion and graduated with only 15k in student loan debt. In state tuition is a life saver. That would not have been the case at either HU. With that said, I am pro HBCU at the state level. As an engineering major, I regret not applying to North Carolina A&T and gaining residency after a year.
ODU is public? :ohhh:
 

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Black men aren’t going to college, and it’s a huge problem.

They’re not joining apprenticeships at a comparable rate either, nor are they joining the military.

I’m not a father, and all of my siblings have graduated from college and grad school - but this is a worrying trend.

HBCUs themselves, even the pricier private universities like Howard University, still provide tremendous support to first generation Black students - the statistics show, across the board, that it is worthwhile.
 

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I'd say it probably has more to do with tuition lmao
Nah, the ratio is similar at all of the public HBCUs as well.
Not just HBCUs either, PWIs and local community colleges also have this massive gap.
Tech Schools/Community Colleges>>>>
Tech schools and community colleges are great too, but there are both median and average salary and income gaps between those and four year colleges/graduate/professional schools.

We should encourage post-secondary education generally.
We dont invest in our boys. We literally over invest in black girls while telling black boys deal with it
There is no over-investing in Black girls. There’s a dearth of investment for both Black boys and Black girls.

Even if you account for the school-to-prison pipeline, and measured parental involvement, there’s something else there that has led to the gendered gap.
 
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