HBCU’s should go the way of the Negro Baseball League. If an HBCU can’t hang as a regular college or University, then it might need to either fold or get absorbed into another university system.
The ones near me have always been financial basket cases. So they “fix” the problem by pumping in millions of more dollars. Everything is called A OK until 3 to 4 years later when they end up in the same financial straights or worse. So the bailouts gets repeated almost to infinity.
These schools once had a purpose when post secondary education was segregated and there were less colleges but that’s been gone for a while. I say good job at their original task but now let’s move on to the future.
I know a men who graduated from one ( SC State ) back in the 1960s. His goal working all his life was so that his kids would never have to go there. They all went to mainstream schools like Penn State.
I really don’t understand their purpose in the 21st century. Of course, I don’t understand the purpose of any of our present universities in the 21st century, either.
I wonder what foreigners think of these “historically black” schools.
Um ... they are regular colleges. I'm going to go out a limb and guess that their tuition isn't as high as that of other colleges of comparable merit. Hence the begging. Government shouldn't get involved in these schools any more than they should get involved with others, but they do serve a purpose.