Fewer Black men are enrolling in HBCUs. Here’s why and what’s being done : NPR
Written by Black Hot Fire Network on October 28, 2024
Members of the class of 2016 are presented with their degrees during the commencement ceremony at Howard University in May, 2016.
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The absolute number of Black men enrolled at Historically Black Colleges and Universities is the lowest it's been since 1976.
That's according to recent analysis from the American Institute for Boys and Men, which crunched data from the Department of Education.
