If you are black and graduated/attended college, did you attend an HBCU?

[Guile]

Probably should have on second thought.

One was right up the street, but I had to go up state.

 

[Schmoove]

Probably should have on second thought.

One was right up the street, but I had to go up state.

Which ones?

 

[notwhoiusedtobe]

I graduated from NYU As a kid I wanted to go to Hillman, then I found out it didn't exist


Forgot to add, I'm from NY and Tisch was the most competitive Film School on the East Coast. I honestly never considered applying to an HBCU. My social life probably suffered as a result.

 

[L0Qutus]

i went to a predominantly asian school: UCLA.

I went to UCI and that school was majority asian back in the 90's. I think all the UC's are predominantly asian right now.

ETA:
I considered applying to an HBCU. I had the application for Grambling and back in the 90's you just had to send your transcripts and fill out a scantron. I don't even think I had to write an essay. I also got applications for Morehouse and Howard. I applied to a lot of in-state schools too. I ended up going to a PWI b/c I got good financial aid packages and I didn't think I would receive comparable offers from the HBCU's.

I wish I had gone b/c I was interested in the Greek life and the overall experience. The Black Fraternity scene in PWI without a sizeable black population is

 

[Schmoove]

When PWI's go Black, HBCU's may not come back
An hbcudigest.com editorial on White co-opting of HBCU culture (the same stuff going on with hip-hop and every other positive aspect of Black culture)
http://hbcudigest.com/post/119321147081/when-pwis-go-black-hbcus-may-not-come-back

In part, this is why HBCUs are losing a grip on their choice of the best black students. The surface things which make the HBCU experience more unique than any other campus in the world, our students can find at any kind of PWI.

And even when those same black students are ostracized in classes and in campus social spaces, when they leave their college experience having made more alliances with fellow black students and faculty than they imagined they would when ‘diversity’ was a key requirement in their college selection process, they know that they can have the HBCU experience, without actually being on an HBCU campus.

These videos are not a problem, let alone the problem; they are a symptom of how HBCU culture can be easily manufactured, packaged and sold to a broad spectrum of students of all races, to help lure them away from HBCU enrollment. You can blame it on the continuing melding of black culture within American youth culture at large, the increased number of black students at white campuses bringing HBCU culture with them, or a combination of both. In either case, it is a call for HBCUs to reinvent those timeless elements of our campus culture which today, still attract students but not enough to keep the schools off the edge of drastic cuts, and for some, extinction.

 

[☑︎#VoteDemocrat]

I don't wanna go to a school with people who all look the same as me.
To weird for me.

 

[Pifferry]

I live in a mixed neighborhood, in a mixed area, and have always gone to a mixed school, and my friend group is mixed.
Being around all black people does nothing for me, I'm not against it, I don't think people shouldn't feel that way, but I've always felt best surrounded by the people who were good to me and that's always been a mixed group of people.
It doesn't make me uncomfortable but it is different and I'm comfortable living the way I've grown up.

 

[Consigliere]

Nah. I graduated from a mostly YT private HS. Had 5 other Black men in my graduating class.

I did end up choosing a school with a large Black pop tho. If I could do it over again with my mind right I would have gone to Morehouse.

 

[Primetime21]

Just in case this wasn't posted in this thread

Dear HBCU graduates,

Although most of us have never met, we share a special bond as graduates of one of America's historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs). With few exceptions, these are the places that sprouted from sweat-soaked seeds planted by the sons and daughters of former slaves, sharecroppers and subsistence farmers whose belief in the power of education confounded the plans of plantation owners, straw bosses and Southern white politicians. HBCUs were the places that accepted us because they wanted to serve us, not because they were forced to do so or wanted to "diversify" their enrollment. They welcomed us with open arms and did not need to establish black culture centers or persuade faculty and staff to accept or embrace us. HBCUs never characterized us as high-risk or academically or culturally disadvantaged; they chose instead to focus on our assets. Thankfully, we were the reason that HBCUs existed and not a special project on diversity and inclusion. Most of us would agree that our alma mater enveloped us in a culture of caring from which it was nearly impossible to escape. As a consequence, we developed the intellectual, social and leadership skills that allowed us to compete with anyone in the world. All of this HBCUs did with only a fraction of the fiscal resources available to predominately white universities (PWIs).

I am sure you must have read by now that HBCUs are at a major crossroads. Enrollment is declining, in part because of increased competition from PWIs, online universities, proprietary schools and community colleges. In fact, according to the Oct. 9, 2014, edition of Diverse Issues in Higher Education, the University of Phoenix Online Campus is the largest producer of African-American recipients of bachelor's degrees in all disciplines. In addition, leadership and fiscal instability, problems with accreditation and growing discord between presidents and boards of trustees are affecting even the strongest HBCUs. In all fairness, I must note that many of these same challenges afflict PWIs as well. The difference, in my view, is the fact that failure at HBCUs has disproportionate implications for African-American students, families and the communities in which they are located. The failure of HBCUs is not an option; we have too much riding on them to let that happen.

Fellow HBCU graduates, we can and must come to the aid of our institutions while there is still time to make a difference. Fiscal insolvency and the loss of accreditation are two insurmountable challenges from which I have not known any institution, HBCU or PWI, to recover. What follows are some concrete steps we can and must take to support HBCUs.

1. We must stop complaining about the imperfections of HBCUs and fretting about the few things that didn't go as well as we would have liked when we were students. There are neither perfect schools nor perfect people.
   
   
2. We must be willing to serve as ambassadors for our alma mater by referring prospective students, including our own children, grandchildren, neighbors and friends, to the admissions office. We shouldn't be persuaded solely by the size of a PWI scholarship or its marketing prowess when making a student referral. The ice at PWIs really isn't any colder than it is at an HBCU! In fact, many black students who initially attend PWIs end up graduating from HBCUs.
   
   
   
   
3. We must be willing to share with our alma mater our expertise -- without charge. That expertise is just as diverse as the careers that we have, or have had, and can be used to improve curricular offerings, university operations, and marketing and facilitate job placement for graduating students, among other things.
   
   
   
   
4. We must be willing to provide access to our vast network of people, programs and services that will allow our alma mater to achieve levels of excellence and responsiveness not otherwise possible. By activating our collective networks, we can do more than imaginable to strengthen HBCUs and enhance their competitiveness. The soul singer Jerry Butler was correct when he proclaimed, "Only the strong survive."
   
   
5. We must be willing to invest our money in the places that produced us, and we must be committed to doing so every month of every year. I never quite understood how HBCU alums expected their alma mater to achieve and sustain excellence without money! Have you ever noticed that there are no poor schools on the U.S. News and World Report's national rankings of excellent schools? Many years ago, to emphasize the importance of investing in what we value, my friend and pastor, the late Dr. Robert Lowery, reminded his parishioners that life is like a bank account: "You can't make a draw unless you make a deposit." Unless we as alums make a deposit (invest), our alma mater cannot offer competitive scholarships, purchase state-of-the-art equipment, hire top professors, or offer study-abroad opportunities for students, among other things.

During the course of my long career in the academy, I made a lot of speeches and listened to even more. There are two comments that I vividly remember from the many speeches I've heard. The first came from the late Dr. Elias Blake, who served as president of Clark College. He opined that HBCUs succeed in educating low-wealth, less-well-prepared students because they provide a psychologically supportive environment. The second comment came from Dr. Patrick Swygert, who served for a decade as president of Howard University. He noted that there is a difference between a graduate of a university and an alumnus. A graduate is one who simply holds a degree from the institution, while an alumnus is one who holds a degree and is invested in the institution's success and well-being. All of us who profess to love our alma mater should ask ourselves, "Am I a graduate or an alumnus?"

In future blog posts, I will discuss in greater detail what HBCU alums can do in each of the five areas referenced above. Meanwhile, we can all demonstrate our support for HBCUs by referring at least three prospective students to our alma mater or another HBCU for 2015 admission. One final piece of advice: Refer students -- without regard to race, sex or sexual orientation -- who are academically prepared and can benefit from the opportunity to study in an environment where caring still matters.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/charlie-nelms-edd/an-open-letter-to-hbcu-graduates_b_5989932.html

 

[MostReal]

that cac is white he might as well just stop playing

 

[keond]

SCSU Education grad

 

[SupaVillain]

Call Hampton and follow up with them.

Yo boy made it

 

[Schmoove]

Yo boy made it

Carry on that legacy breh breh
























And feast on them heavenly women

 

[RichieRich]

Not there yet...but headed to one for pharm school

 

[DeadTilTomorrow]

I went to a PWI.

Entering my college search I didn’t have a specific interest in HBCUs (as opposed to some of my friends were more familiar with them because they had family who were alumni and/or did Black college tours or their mentors/coaches/academics counselors mentioned it to them etc). I had a few schools I already had an interest in, but outside of that I just applied my general interests and criteria and few, if any, HBCUs showed up in my searches/met my needs, preferences, or qualifications, so I went with what suited me best.