If not, then why not??

Alot of universities(both the black and white ones) are failing when it comes to undergraduate students. Now grad school is a different story.

I have a story about my experience 'hanging out' at one of the nearby HBCU's. I'll talk about it when I do my next version of DSP's true stories.

Black_Power wrote: One big reason I didn't go. In a sense I should have gone to one. I hadrecieved a scholarship into a program(Florida A&MUniversity)that now has an employment rate of 90% AND many go on to gradschool as well.

My roomate and I would drive down for some of the HBCU'shomecoming and be like Oooh My God. Going to a predominantly white school day in and day out makes you appreciate HBCU's and their events. We went to about 2 or 3 every year. Outside of the eye candy and feeling like you were in momentary paradise it was fun to see how all the different black cultures interacted (NY-NorthEast, Chicago/Detroit-Midwest, Atlanta-South, Cali-West, Texas and Florida, and foreign blacks).

There were alot of black students at our school anyway. We had our own cultural center there so it was like having a black school within the white school. What cracked us up was the look on white parents faces when they saw all the black students that attended the school...LOL!!

This thread has been beaten to death.Igraduated from Howard University in Washington DC and wouldn't trade it for anythig in the world.

Hellz yeah,I would have loved to have gone to a British equivalent of Spellman or Morehouse.



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Just because it would have been great to be around 1000's of Black folks getting their learn on.....plus i'm sure there would have been some quite shaggable professors too.

jett Black wrote: LOL@ British equivalent smoking-devil

Depends what you want or seek to achieve by attending university. But I hear ya Black Power because to me that would be a serious distraction being aruond a whole heap of bright black women as a young man.

Sorry Jet Black now having renounced the name Sexual Choclate. Professor aren't allowed to shag students unless they are white and outside of Africa or the Caribbean that is.

If you want to study in a place which is balanced by your social considerations as being important then a black school may be good. If I take most black institutions that I know of as a model, I would not want to attend them. In fact Burning Spears Howard would be one of the few exception because it is not a coconut factory. Spellman and those places forget it.

If you are largely focused on the reputation or wanting to attend a school or reknown excellence then whether it is black of not is irrelevent. You will probably end up in a white university. That may also be important for your future working career and progress in your feild.

Very few future employers are going to put Spellman or what is the other one Moorhouse against Yale, MIT and those kinda places despite them having good faculties in say law and medicine.

The same applies for your work and career because the majority of black university teachers or academics in this country no matter how they go on or talk about racism would prefer to be in an white internationally recognised elite institution than a black one or one with a disproportionate black or ethnic minority intake.

I also actually believe being a minority in a predominate white institution can be really good for you as a potentially high performer, because the odds are against you so you have to rise big time to rule. This creates a level of standard of work or simply a way of being and thinking and operating technically which will give you a massive advantage in the real world.

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Most corporations go to black universities torecruitewhen they want to hire minority employees, so it's not such a bad idea career wise. Many have relationships with these companies. Also the HBCU's are more apt to teach students to be entrepeneurs and how to go about that as opposed to being a modern day indentured servant.

@DSP you are educating me on that one. That is a positive development or practice. But the empirical and statistical question and how I would look at it is which institution is most likely to get me what I want. So if the big companies go to Black universities are they less or more likely to get the job you want going to school A or B and then the other considerations already mentioned.

How do they compare in real terms....or is there no real difference....

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@DSP just remembered would the same apply if you wanted to be a scientist, a expert in technology or advanced engineering or a career in medicine, an academic,and a whole heap of other feilds outside business and commerce?

I would have thought white institutions would have a massive advantage in those areas?confused3

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If you list the names of Blacks in AMerica who have made any kind of profound impacton this country or are the movers and shakers of our community, almost ALL of them, attended an HBCU. That is not an accident.