Savannah State, Albany State and Fort Valley State

I wonder how the alumni of these schools feel about this?

This article is from a year ago.

The bill ultimately failed, but it showed that the failures at the public HBCUs in Georgia are being noticed at the state level. I expect talks like this to continue especially for Savannah State which is a shell of its former self.

That would create an outrage in the black community.

There's symbolic and sentimental value to keeping HBCs around, regardless of how costly they may be.

(06-04-2020 12:27 AM)Poster Wrote:  That would create an outrage in the black community.

There's symbolic and sentimental value to keeping HBCs around, regardless of how costly they may be.

Given symbolic/sentimental value, it might be simpler to combine them into one University but let each campus retain their name & branding.

It would, for one thing, pose fewer risks of pointless administrative empire building, since the scanty resources to play empire building games with would not tend to be attractive to the empire building types.

As someone who lives in Georgia, and has taught at an HBCU there would be massive challenges to this. Albany State has just cut a bunch of athletic teams, after inheriting some of them from their merger with Darton College. FVSU is slowly emerging from an accreditation mess, and Savannah St, which many "neutral observers" say should have been merged with Armstrong St (who was in turn merged with Georgia Southern) is much smaller, and is also slowly turning things around. Aside from the obvious political and historical challenges, the geography of this is quite large. Georgia is the larges state by area east of the Mississippi. If all three campuses were retained, but just brought under one umbrella, that might work if colleges are spread out. But who gets which college? These are three very different areas. FVSU and Albany are a littler more similar in geography, but compare FVSU to Savannah! Two different worlds. I think Albany St is currently in the best position of the three.