What are some common threads that historically black colleges and universities share with other minority-serving institutions?
A. The commonalities across black colleges, Hispanic-speaking institutions, and tribal colleges are that, by and large, they tend to be constantly looking for money. It’s difficult to not be a mainstream institution and try to serve the needs of low-income students—which many of these institutions do. I also think that the interesting thing is that historically black colleges and tribal colleges have more in common because they were created for the express purpose of educating a specific race or ethnicity. Now, Hispanic-serving institutions are determined by percentage and so they don’t necessarily have to have a mission of serving Hispanic students. Some of them, in fact, don’t talk about this on their websites. Some of them do. It all depends. But they do get federal monies, so, these institutions, yes, have some similarities but they are very very different. They tend to serve lower-income students and some of them are financially strapped. Q. What’s next for you? A. I have a variet
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