HBCU

Mar 26, 2024

St. Augustine Losing Accreditation

Image from Creative Commons Image of a Bachelor of Arts degree. Less than five miles away from NC State’s campus lies an historically Black college by the name of St. Augustine University (SAU). In Dec. 2023, St. Augustine’s Board of Trustees fired the university’s President Christine McPhail. Following this incident, the Southern Association of Colleges…

Sep 26, 2019

Do Black Athletes Have A Responsibility to Attend HBCUs?

Athletes are more than just athletes, they are people. People who have made sacrifices and busted their behinds to make it to the best programs

Apr 18, 2018

A House Divided: Classism in the Black Community

Shawn Fredericks | Staff Writer Black people are divided. Although it is often seen as taboo to air out certain problems within the black community, these issues must be discussed and unpacked. One of the most pressing issues affecting the black community is classism, and it is alive and well on college campuses. America’s class divisions…

Feb 13, 2013

Graduation Rates Flatline

HBCU Four-Year Graduation Rates Are Considerably Low  Aaron Thomas | Staff Writer North Carolina Central University was ranked the “#1 Public HBCU in the Nation,” in 2010 by the U.S. News & World Report, however recent graduation rates have many wondering both how and why. According to the Chronicle of Higher Education, in the fall of…