WHY HBCU's?

​

There are 105 historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) across the nation. In 1965, in Title III of the Higher Education Act of 1965, Congress officially defined an HBCU as an institution whose principal mission was and is the education of black Americans was accredited and was established before 1964. The first HBCU, Cheney University in Pennsylvania, was founded in 1837.

While the 105 HBCUs represent just three percent of the nation’s institutions of higher learning, they graduate nearly 20 percent of African Americans who earn undergraduate degrees.

HBCU's are experts at educating African Americans:

• HBCUs graduate over 50 percent African American professionals.

• HBCUs graduate over 50 percent of African American public school teachers and 70 percent of African American dentists.

• 50 percent of African Americans who graduate from HBCUs go on to graduate or professional schools.

• HBCUs award more than one in three of the degrees held by African Americans in natural sciences.

• HBCUs …