As president of Howard University, I have a unique window into the African-American students within my own institution, fellow historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) and other centers of higher education across the country. The talent I see every day is immense and inspiring. Black students and alumni have a depth of capabilities and diverse passions and ambitions. They leave our campuses eager to work hard and ready to change our industries, our society and our world for the better. All they need is an opportunity.
Our nation’s ongoing struggle with the question of race is intimately tied to the origins of the institutions of higher learning organized to educate Black Americans. Beginning with the Institute for Colored Youth (now Cheyney University) in 1837, more than 100 diverse institutions of higher education now exist under the federal designation of “historically Black colleges and universities.”
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