(07-07-2017 03:21 PM)GreenHornet33 Wrote:  

(07-07-2017 03:17 PM)Usajags Wrote:  

(07-07-2017 03:08 PM)GreenHornet33 Wrote:  

(07-05-2017 10:09 AM)Usajags Wrote:  

(07-05-2017 04:59 AM)BRtransplant Wrote:  Grambling University was sorely needed when it was established. It, like all other historically black colleges, was established because of racial segregation. Now, even though the primary reason for GSU's existence is no more, it is too politically incorrect to even speak of ever shutting it down.

Today, the two HBC's in Louisiana remain a drain on Louisiana taxpayers solely for political reasons. The vast majority of black high school students that meet the academic requirements of La Tech, ULM, UNO, or ULL, attend one of those schools over GSU or Southern. Though GSU and Southern are no longer needed, the citizens of Louisiana will be stuck paying the price for this political correctness for a long time to come. The same can be said about almost all HBC's.

The two public HBCU's in Alabama are both well positioned in the state. Alabama A&M has an endowment of $119milliom and sits on 880 acres, Alabama State's endowment is $86.5 mil. Except for UA-Huntsville for A&M and AU-Montgomery for State, neither university is relatively close to another public university, and neither UAH or AUM play football. If they could shake the HBCU designation, they would just become intrastate regional universities. For what it's worth, there are white students on both campus', I've seen them on their athletic teams.

Also, Alabama State recently built their new OCS, and it is exactly what I want at South!!!

Why would we want to "shake" the HBCU designation?

You will always be an HBCU by the definition as an historically black college or university. I was more referring to perception of being a school for black people instead of a school for all people. The Alabama university system is very well designed with location for all public schools and the region they each service.

In 2017 if a person believes that an HBCU is only for black people, that's a them problem. ASU right now is about 9% white, most PWIs don't have black student populations that high.

probably true but black folks only make up 11% of the national population. at uta they are over 14%