“We’re simply not able to pick and choose whom we engage with. We saw firsthand a couple months ago how positive strategic engagement paid off when I worked with our member-school presidents and chancellors to ensure that their federal budget dollars would not be cut in President Trump’s first budget proposal.”
Mr. Taylor suggests that HBCUs and their advocates need to begin planning what the institutions need to look like 50 years from now, to ensure they are keeping up with the constant changes in the generations to come.
Educators and historians examined the impact of the landmark Brown v. Board of Education decision ending segregation in public schools on its 63rd anniversary, hosted by the Thurgood Marshall College Fund.
AEI hosted a discussion on the state of historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) and what challenges and opportunities await them on the road ahead.
Today, after seven years as Thurgood Marshall College Fund’s (TMCF) President & CEO, Johnny C. Taylor, Jr. announced effective November 2017, he will assume a new position as the Society for Human Resources Management’s (SHRM) President & CEO.
““It’s a gap scholarship that is designed to help graduating seniors facing a final hurdle that could potentially prevent them from graduating,” said David Hood, Ph.D., NCCU University College dean.”