Thursday, September 27, 2012

HBCUs play a vital role in education and need more funding

Historically black colleges and univerisities (HBCUs) have produced 25 percent of America’s black college graduates and most of the black doctoral degree recipients, according to the National Center for Education Statistics. Enrollment at HBCUs has risen since the mid-1980s, from about 70,000 students to almost 300,000.

Unfortunately, a long history of chronic underfunding, classrooms with broken air conditioners and tattered library books have handicapped many of the nation’s 105

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