Dr. John M. BerryHBCUsAndrew Carnegie and RaceA financial supporter of Tuskegee Institute and Hampton University, Andrew Carnegie believed deeply in the cause of Negro education and saw slavery as blight on the country’s “triumphant democracy,” but he failed to address the terrorist acts visited upon Blacks in the South of lynching, sharecropping and Jim Crow laws. However, author David Nasaw also provides the complexities of Carnegie’s thinking on race and race relations in the United States.June 16, 2008Leadership & PolicyPerspectives: AME-affiliated Colleges Need To Band Together in Cluster Endowment TrustsIt has been said that financially struggling AME-affiliated colleges should be allowed to die, leaving the strong to survive. An institutional development officer says small, religious-based colleges can all survive if they tackle fundraising as a coalition.January 26, 2008StudentsHBCUs and Black Investment Banks: A Natural, Transformative PartnershipAs the leadership of historically black colleges and universities positions their institutions to meet the growing challenges of the 21st century, I am excited by the potential of a partnership that has the possibilities of transformational empowerment for these institutions.May 2, 2007Page 1 of 1
