A Historically Black College Is a Terrible Thing to Waste

Tom Robinson, at Today's Campus, prepared this brief status sheet about HBCUs.

What’s wrong with this picture? Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU) and colleges who are members of the United Negro College Fund (UNCF) cost less, offer a culturally rich environment, enjoy bigger gains in academic attainment and graduate more African American students proportionately than historically white schools. Yet most HBCU schools are struggling even more than their Predominantly White College (PWC) counterparts. And black students are less likely to enroll in them than previously.

---

Regional SCUP Events! Enjoy the F2F company of your colleagues and peers at one of three SCUP regional conferences this spring:

• March 14–16: Baltimore, MD
• March 24–26: Cambridge, MA
• April 5–7, San Diego, CA

Why Students Are Leaving Your College or University?

It might seem intuitive that most students leave a college or a university (without graduating) due to financial stress. But this company's research fiinds that nearly 3/4 of non-graduating students who leave, leave for "customer service-related reasons (includes pie charts). "We would have expected that financially motivated dropping would have risen significantly. That was not what we found. Though it could be argued that the major shift in “not worth it” is in part a financial decision. However the larger parts of the category do appear to be a combination of 'poor service and treatment' and 'college does not care.' These are combined with a sense of 'I am wasting my time and money.'"