HBCU Blues: America's Historically Black Colleges and Universities in the 21st Century

What makes "great universities" great is a continued effort towards improvement by the faculty, students, and alumni. Perhaps the issue that HBCUs face is the fact that this is lacking. How many students in high school even know that there are 105 HBCUs? How many know that Howard and Fisk were once talked about in the same breath as Harvard and Yale? The key, as in all things, is the education of the community as to the various opportunities available regarding colleges.

Just as a point of thought for everyone, how helpful to HBCUs would it be if the states that they reside in took them on as "state" schools?

HBCU Blues: America's Historically Black Colleges and Universities in the 21st Century

In the mid 1980s, Bill Cosby's highly popular television program, A Different World and Spike Lee's influential film School Daze promoted a complimentary image of black colleges and universities as rigorous institutions of higher learning where black students could be free to pursue the fruits of a college education in a welcoming and nurturing environment among people with the same cultural background and values. I...