How these HBCU presidents fixed their colleges’ financial futures
Written by Black Hot Fire Network on February 23, 2023
Walter Kimbrough knows about endowments. He raised Dillard University’s from about $50 million to $105 million between 2012-2022, during the years he served as president. He built interest in Dillard by sharing its story.
“When I first got to Dillard and I found out Dillard was No. 2 in the country for producing African Americans who get undergraduate degrees in physics, I told that everywhere,” he says. “We have to tell data-driven stories.”
Why We Wrote This
Historically Black Colleges and Universities have grappled with a long history of being ignored financially . . .
