Solution to the HBCU Crisis: Alumni Must Give Back
Annual alumni giving is the life’s blood of colleges and universities, and is even more critical to HBCUs, historically black colleges and universities.
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First African American Woman to Lead National Future Farmers’ Organization
Holbert was elected with five other students—the majority are women—to serve in leadership roles for the year. The other states represented are Oklahoma, Georgia, Arizona, Iowa, and Kentucky. The Oklahoma Farm Report declared that the National FFA Organization made history with the election of Holbert. Other outlets did not mention Holbert's race at all.
HBCU Faculty Earn a Lot Less Than Their Non-HBCU Peers
This isn't exactly news. According to the most recent issue of the NEA Higher Education Advocate, a quarterly publication of the National Education Association, in 2008 a study revealed that HBCU faculty members earned $11,000, or 17%, less than their non-HBCU peers.
Why This Woman Launched an Organization to Help Foster Care Youths
"About 10% of former foster care youth will attend college, and only about 3% graduate from higher education institutions—I was one of them."
African American, Latino Studies are Required to Graduate From This High School
"Ethnic studies works," Artnelson Concordia, a teacher who is helping to develop an ethnic studies curriculum in San Francisco, is quoted as saying in the NPR article. He says students will see that "all of their experiences can be connected to larger issues."
