What are some predominately black schools
Just in time for homecoming, another HBCU in the red
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University of Memphis, Troy University, and CUNY-Medgar Evers College are but a few examples of this
There are too many HBCUs.
Even schools such as Morehouse are on shaky financial footing. With all those nikkas who've graduated from there, you'd think they'd have a good chunk of change from an endowment perspective.
Its endowment is only $130 million.
To put things into perspective, a rich CAC wrote Harvard a check for $400 million last year! That was one person and one donation! Howard, the richest HBCU, only has a $500 million endowment.
Yet, all those nikkas will be in Atlanta this weekend for homecoming. Why aren't they pumping money back into the school?
Howard's endowment is the exact same as the University of Alabama's
Expand schools that cant even retain students brehs.
Be emotional and continue to make idiotic decisions and end up like morris brown brehs.
Dudes dont even want to compete globally they only want HBCUs for emotional validation which is why many of these schools are failing.
Be emotional and continue to make idiotic decisions and end up like morris brown brehs.
Dudes dont even want to compete globally they only want HBCUs for emotional validation which is why many of these schools are failing.
UoA has a 3+ billion dollar endowment and Howard has a 600 mill.Howard's endowment is the exact same as the University of Alabama's
What crack you smoking?
Those schools are failing because of conservative state governments are rapidly shrinking overall state education budgets. Look at Louisiana. The governor can cut the overall state education budget by 20% or so- that cut will fukk with Grambling a lot more than LSU. Retaining students isn't the issue- republicac's purposely undermining the budgets of these schools is the issue.
UL System takes hard hit from budget cuts
Leigh Guidry , lguidry@gannett.com 10:30 a.m. CDT July 9, 2016
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It’s no secret state funding for higher education in Louisiana is down, but one system seems to be taking the brunt of it. And many students can expect tuition hikes this fall as a result.
State general fund allocations for 2016-17 are down $8.1 million from July 1, 2015, according to the Louisiana Board of Regents, which approves the distribution of such funds each year. The board reviewed and approved this year’s operating budget distribution formula June 29.
Regional universities are seeing reductions — some more drastic than others. Of that $8.1 million reduction, more than $5.5 million is coming from the University of Louisiana System — the state's largest higher education system. That's 68 percent of the total amount of cuts this year.
“From the UL System standpoint we are very disappointed with the distribution,” said Edwin Litolff, ULS vice president for business and finance. “The UL System did take 68 percent of the reduction based upon the formula.”
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Officials with the Board of Regents argue that’s to be expected.
“You would expect it to take the largest cut because it has the most students and the most money,” said Terrence Ginn, deputy commissioner for finance and administration for the Board of Regents.
This year, $483 million in state general funds will be distributed to two- and four-year institutions in Louisiana.
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State general fund allocations by system for FY 2016-17:
- University of Louisiana System: $213,024,999, down from $218,601,857 in 2015-16. Last year’s figures represent funds in both the state general fund as well as state dedications, combining to create an equivalent comparison to 2016-17 figures.
- Louisiana State University System: $348,303,880, down significantly from $373,477,242 the previous year. The stark difference here is that LSU Health Sciences Center-Shreveport received an appropriation of about $31 million last year and about $4 million this year.
- Southern University System: $43,695,878, down from $44,688,586 in 2015-16.
- Louisiana Community and Technical College System: $115,721,328, down from $116,084,441 last year.
LSU Health Sciences Center-Shreveport is receiving $4 million in operational funding, and its counterpart in New Orleans is to receive $1 million in legacy costs funding.
Of the University of Louisiana System's nine institutions, some will see dramatic cuts. Southeastern Louisiana University alone is expected to see a decrease in funding to the tune of $1.4 million.
Grambling is losing $1.3 million, but would have lost about $1 million more if not for an earmark, Litolff said. Grambling State University will receive the least amount of state funding out of ULS schools this year, edging Nicholls State out of that spot by about $940,000.
The University of New Orleans is losing more than $1 million. Litolff said one reason Grambling and UNO are being hit so hard is because of continual enrollment losses, which are taken into account in the funding formula.
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Jim Henderson, president of Northwestern State University in Natchitoches, said the reduction at his school is $532,000 less than July 1, 2015, funding. But after a $100,000 mid-year cut in 2015-16, it's more like a loss of $432,000.
"It's tough after eight years of significant cuts," Henderson said Tuesday.
In fact, Louisiana is second only to Arizona when it comes to cuts to state funding for higher education over the last 10 years.
"(But) it could have been worse," Henderson said.
It does present a funding gap, but it won’t be handled by layoffs or cut programs, which he points out was the way of “the old business model” of higher education when institutions relied more heavily on state funding. But programs actually generate more dollars than costs by attracting more students who pay tuition.
“Now to cut programs rarely makes sense,” Henderson said. “At Northwestern we’re forging ahead. Cutting back right now is not in our vision.”
How will schools fill the gap?
“We have to generate it,” Henderson said. “We generate that (money) by growth. We generate that in funding efficiencies, which is usually about using technology (for cost-savings).”
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The Louisiana Community & Technical College System will not be raising tuition, representatives said. The LCTCS Board of Supervisors’s unanimous decision last month to not raise tuition marked the first time in five years that the system’s students won’t see a hike in their bills.
“In the five previous years we have been increasing tuition,” said Quintin Taylor, executive director of media relations for the system. “The board was pretty adamant about not raising tuition and impacting our students. Our key mission is access. If you raise tuition you do more harm to your mission.”
LCTCS Chief External Affairs Officer David Helveston said the system will continue to “look at efficiencies.”
“We don’t plan to look at program closures, but at program alignment,” Helveston said. “So it’s not closures for the sake of closures. We want to look at alignment of programs to the needs of industry. Because people who graduate from those programs are getting good family-sustaining jobs.”
Some students in the Southern University System might see tuition increases, but not at three of its campuses — Southern University in Baton Rouge, Southern’s Law Center or Southern University at Shreveport — because the schools failed to meet certain requirements of the GRAD Act, which allows institutions to raise tuition if they meet performance measures lined out in the legislation.
If tuition hikes come at Southern University New Orleans, system representatives would want to keep it minimal.
"We are also aware of and sensitive to the extent to which our students have been burdened with the increasing cost of education," SU System President Ray L. Belton said in an email. "In light of that, the SU System will do its part to minimize the degree to which tuition is increased on any of its campuses.”
Belton, Helveston, Henderson and other higher ed leaders have pointed out that for many schools the situation is bad but not as dire as it could have been.
“I think the important thing to put this into perspective is where we stood in February,” Helveston said. Those projected budgets were decimating.”
They gave credit to the governor and Legislature for keeping losses down.
“That being the case, we are able to continue our focus on the needs of workforce and industry and the needs of the students…,” Helveston said. “If some of the earlier scenarios had come true that wouldn’t be the case.”
University of Louisiana System schools:
- Grambling State University in Grambling
- Louisiana Tech University in Ruston
- McNeese State University in Lake Charles
- Nicholls State University in Thibodaux
- Northwestern State University in Natchitoches (main campus)
- Southeastern Louisiana University in Hammond
- University of Louisiana at Lafayette
- University of Louisiana at Monroe
- University of New Orleans
Those? You mean an overwhelming majority of HBCUs have terrible retention rates.
He's talking about the main Alabama campus in Tuscaloosa. That school has 658 million dollars. Howard University has the same amount.
Cutting the budgets doesn't help them either. I agree with what you say, but to improve graduation and retention rates, more of an investment needs to made. HBCU's are still looked upon as second tier institutions and until they start pulling the best and brightest of a state, regardless of race, and charge white people full tuition for attending, they will continue to be in this predicament.
But hopefully this crisis allows new leadership to come up and save these schools. I would love to be president of an HBCU one day
Mississippi has 6 HBCUs
And I want HBCUs to be a powerful designation, more akin to something like the UC-system, than to be a smattering of dying colleges and universities that number in the 100s.
For every Loyola of Louisiana there are 5 Central State Universities and its just not sustainable.
Im not calling for cutting budgets
Yo I want to slap every c00n in here talking about closing HBCUs do yall idiots know how dumb you sounding?
You do some silly shyt like that, you cutting the African Americans in the job force in half. Especially down south. These white schools ain't admitting that many black kids.
I can't believe how fast 'black' people in here are ready to down their own Heritage in America and then in the same breath say, we ain't trying to build. is Yall nikkas retarded?I wish I could slap and neg everyone of you nikkas
This the type of work HBCUs doing out there! yall nikkas sound insane in this thread
You're ignoring what's being said entirely.
The best university in Cleveland, and one of the best universities in the country is a school that was consolidated (CIT and Western Reserve University) into one, Case Western Reserve University.
No one is "cutting AAs in the job force" by helping sustain schools with limited enrollment, there's a reason why many HBCUs have closed in the last 30 years, or have begun admitting far more White students.
Do you actually care about the schools are you just gonna try to fly a "history" flag around.
