By Priya Reed
Have you ever thought about going to a HBCU or wonder what a HBCU is? The definition for HBCU is Historically Black College or University, and the first one made was called Cheyney university of Pennsylvania.
HBCU is different from any other college because it provides African American students access to higher education if excluded anywhere else. Also to drive career success in their community development.
The HBCU meaning is deeper and extended far beyond personal academic success. It’s deeply rooted in uplifting the black community and supporting the environment around the black community to thrive.
HBCUs still matter because of their evolving institutions that prepare students for their future. The HBCU community highlight 3% of college students in the USA, but produces almost 16% of Black U.S.A graduates, yet they are responsible for 18 % of STEM graduates.
Now how to get into an HBCU is actually no different from any other universe, yet they have different attributes. The amount of credit a HBCU would like for their students to have achieved is at most 2.5 – 3.0. Nevertheless A typical university aims for a 3.5-4.0 to allow students in their colleges.
HBCU aims for this because principals of HBCU refer to it as tools to help African American students transfer into HBCU. Yet California doesn’t have HBCUs, because they have community colleges.
I brought this up for the reason that the HBCU foundation was founded predominantly by the south, and not to say California cannot have HBCUs however they are working to design “ black serving intuition” through clubs in high school and making community colleges.
Apart from community college doesn’t really represent HBCU, it’s an affordable way of college, offering both smaller class sizes too, to nurture in taking time supporting students, compared to larger, predominantly white institutions (PWI).
Emma S says, “ Yes I would attend an HBCU because of their system and people I am around, I feel like I can learn more cultural things, going to a typical college and being around people I know or people that are just like me, I dont thing hbcu can be racial towards white students.” question; would you attend a HBCU, do you think HBCU can be discriminated against by white students?
In view of the question, do HBCUs discriminate against white students? And to that question the answer is no. HBCUs are open to all students, although they were made for opportunity for black students. Yet they were made during a time black students had a higher chance of getting turned down. HBCU are not exclusively for black students.
HBCUs are here to Uplift the black community and or low income students. To provide them with a “ better college experience” and “ higher levels of satisfaction than they would get in a non HBCU university.
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