AA Supreme Court Decision and HBCUs

[Maxell]

hbcugameday.com/2023/06/29/supreme-court-striking-down-affirmative-action-can-pose-challenges-for-hbcus/


ByHBCU Gameday NewswirePosted on June 29, 2023
The Supreme Court of the United States has struck down affirmative action in college admissions. So what does this mean for the HBCU?

Howard University President Dr. Wayne A.I. Frederick called the Supreme Court’s decision ‘unfortunate’ and sees several potential challenges for HBCUs.

“By not allowing race to be considered in admissions elsewhere, you can put even more outsized burden on historically black colleges and universities who don’t have the kind of capacity to carry that type of version, and so I think this is an unfortunate decision,” Dr. Frederick said on air.

Frederick pointed out that the actual designation of being an HBCU was formally forged by the same law that the Supreme Court has just struck down. In his mind, there is a question as to how this decision will impact funding of 100-plus HBCUs.

[Aggie One]

[DECKS]

Are HBCU'S ready to fill in the gaps? How does this affect our growth model or do we simply become more selective? How does this impact athletic admissions at PWI'S? Lot's of questions?

[jbrob]

Jul 4, 2023 11:45:24 GMT -5 DECKS said:

Are HBCU'S ready to fill in the gaps? How does this affect our growth model or do we simply become more selective? How does this impact athletic admissions at PWI'S? Lot's of questions?

I think that the students that barely got into East Carolina, UNCG, UNC Charlotte, and Appalachian State will be the students that attend HBCUs. Their spots will be taken by students that didn't get accepted to Chapel Hill and NC State. A&T will get the engineering and agricultural students.

[aggie2039]

This is not going to have as large of an impact as people are thinking....we are talking about students with 1400+ SAT and over 4.0 GPAs. This change will effect the Ivy League, Patriot League schools more than your state flagship universities. I don't see a massive increase in the number of students attending HBCUs. There are a lot of good options for students.

[marchingband1969]

Jul 5, 2023 10:50:33 GMT -5 aggie2039 said:

This is not going to have as large of an impact as people are thinking....we are talking about students with 1400+ SAT and over 4.0 GPAs. This change will effect the Ivy League, Patriot League schools more than your state flagship universities. I don't see a massive increase in the number of students attending HBCUs. There are a lot of good options for students.

Hell, we couldn't get more students in with a shoehorn! If the damn state of North Carolina would pay us the $2 Billion bucks they shortchanged us over the years, we could build more dorms, classrooms, labs and hire more professors. Until that happens, this Supreme Court ruling is a non-event for A&T!

[DOOMS]

Good point.

I wonder if the ruling may change the mindset on pursuing the money or the mindset of the amount of money states are putting into their public HBCUs.

[Maxell]

Although it may not be a direct impact, I do not think it is a non-event. It could marginally impact who applies and who is accepted to A&T. A residual affect in a few years could be how EEOC issues are treated and a company's obligation to continue to recruit aggressively at HBCUs (or not).

[jbrob]

It's amazing that the few African Americans that integrated the PWIs in the UNC system are in their eighties or recently deceased.

Floyd McKissick, Harvey Beech, James Lassiter, and J. Kenneth Lee entered the UNC Law school in 1951.

David Dansby the first African American undergrad to graduate from UNC in 1961.

Claudette Burroughs White graduated from UNCG in 1961.

Equality hasn't had enough time to take hold.