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HBCU libraries have formed the HBCU Library Alliance. That alliance, together with Cornell University, have a joint program to digitize HBCU collections. The project is funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. [86] Additionally, more historically black colleges and universities are offering online education programs.
Most HBCU's are located in the Southern United States, where state laws generally required educational segregation until the 1950s and 1960s. Alabama has the highest number of HBCUs, followed by North Carolina, and then Georgia. The list of closed colleges includes many that, because of state laws, were racially segregated.
A new report details how historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) have continued to provide opportunities of upward mobility for Black Americans even as they remain woefully ...
Allen, Quaylan, and Kimberly White-Smith. ""That's why I say stay in school": Black mothers’ parental involvement, cultural wealth, and exclusion in their son's schooling." Urban Education 53.3 (2018): 409–435. online; Allen, Walter R., et al. "From Bakke to Fisher: African American Students in US Higher Education over Forty Years."
Since 1985, U.S. News & World Report has produced a listing of the top colleges and universities across the nation,... View Article The post Malcolm Gladwell examines why HBCUs score so low in U.S ...
During 2015-2019, the nation’s eight Ivy League schools received a combined $5.5 billion in philanthropic dollars while, in that same period of time, the entirety of the nation’s 100 HBCUs ...
Dream Books and Gamblers: Black Women's Work in Chicago's Policy Game (U of Illinois Press, 2022). Smith, Preston H. Racial democracy and the Black metropolis: Housing policy in postwar Chicago (U of Minnesota Press, 2012). Smith, Preston H. "The Chicago School of Human Ecology and the Ideology of Black Civic Elites."
A better economy, more federal funding, lower tuition and a desire to not have neo-Nazis march through your campus every weekend has led to more black students choosing to attend HBCUs over ...