I want to call out my daughter's HBCU so badly I could scream....I will just say that I was greatly surprised by the disorganization at the administration level that takes place which greatly overshadows every positive aspect of attending there.
Black alumni do not donate similarly as white alumni. even if every alumni member just donated $50-$100 dollars a year it would make a ridiculous difference. that's the main reason.I know several friends who work at HBCUs in NC and they just lack the donations and funding. I see a high number of HBCUs get a 2 Million dollar donation and the school is straight. Its a big difference when you only have 3000 or 2000 students.If these schools fall under 5,000 students it gets tough on the budget. HBCUs created the MOST BLACK PROFESSIONALS and DOCTORS PERIOD.
Ummm I disagree with your comment! Benedict College Alumni does an awesome job with giving back to the school but there’s still financial issues! I don’t think it’s even fair to compare an HBCU to PWI because there’s such a huge difference! Hell we don’t even campaign on the same level as a PWI and some of it is access and median range income for your average graduate! I have worked in institutional advancement and I’ve studied neighboring PWI’s... Benedict, Claflin, and SC STATE all have awesome alumni support, but our budgets and annual givings dwarf in comparison to schools like USC, CLEMSON, WOFFORD, FURMAN.... and I’m willing to bet you can directly connect that with job placement and median range incomes! 🤷🏾♂️
I graduated from Hampton U. I agree with your point of view on HBCUs. I love what they stand for however there are a so many things that need improvement.
On your point of "sticking together". I'm going through that right now. I constantly see other blacks at work actively/passively working against each other. It's amazing, sad, and disheartening all at the same time.
+Boyce Watkins Wow! I'm astonished but not surprised at what youre saying. Because HBCUs are so defunded, mismanaged and brainwashed, the overall product is just horrible. I remembered when I applied for FAMU and I was accepted with scholarships. I went to the admissions dept and they lost all my paper including my scholarship information. Right, then and there I went over to Florida State… one of the best decisions I've made. It's just sad that a lot of these HBCUs are missing out on good students because their operations are just horrible.
I went to Bethune-Cookman, I know that there are whites on the board of trustees yet I loved my college because we had many Black teachers that were pro-black. I had a leadership teacher that was very strict on all of his students. He taught us how and why we needed to know how interactions would be in corporate america. It was my best class by far. I had other professors that were this way as well. It was the truth and showed me how white people would treat me in corporate america, boy was he right.
He said we have to stand up and protect ourselves. We are not doing enough of that. Let's discuss the different ways we can do that....right here, right now!
At my HBCU I majored in Comp Engr and only 1 of the professors in the entire dept was black. The rest where all foreign, but I was still able to get a good education so I do not think HBCU's need to have black professors necessarily. On a side note the dean of engineering was black so its all good.
Many of the HBCUS have poor leadership, financially unstabled and do not offer the resources that students need to be successful. I also would not blame someone who just invested a considerable amount of money in obtaining a PHD and decide to work at Duke University and earn enough money to pay off student loans rather than taking a job at South Carolina State University and wonder if your department will still be in existence next semester.
Your comment generalizes HBCU's. They are not all financially unstable and a lot of them have great leadership, it just depends which school you are talking about. Xavier University of Louisiana, Spellman College, Morehouse College, North Carolina A&T and others have done very. HBCU's do not get the same level of funding compared to mostly white universities. As for your comment about HBCU not offering the resources to students to successful, that is not true for many schools when you consider HBCU's are 3% of the universities in America and graduate 20% of black students in America every year. 70% of black doctors are HBCU alumni. This follows through in law, engineering and science. Most HBCU's are liberal arts colleges, so it makes you wonder with all the resources mostly white colleges have, they have not produced the same results as HBCU. The reason why there is a black professional class and black middle class is because of HBCU's.
I went to and graduated from an HBCU--When I registered for classes, I learned that Black History was not a mandatory class. I was shocked. We had to take World Civilization.
The chair or Morehouse's Department of Computer Science is Chinese and, truth be told, I don't even blame him or Morehouse. When you have Black people who don't enroll in majors that are lucrative on the job market then you can't expect for there to be Black professors who teach the subject. I went to Rutgers because it is my local university but the truth is that it gave me a better position to enter the professional computing industry than the HBCU computer science graduates that I know.
"When you have Black people who don't enroll in majors that are lucrative on the job market then you can't expect for there to be Black professors who teach the subject." So there are no black computer science majors?? Very hard to believe.
Boyce is a sly dog LOL @3:52 He says "Prairie View ......... I just said the name of the school the cat's out the bag....." This is a video not a live broadcast . Just edit the video LOL
Aww man, this explains why they more than likely shut you down at Howard yesterday. Cmon Boyce, the truth scares people. You gotta drop videos like this the day after, not before. Gotta cus out the restaurant after you finished your meal, not while your steak is still on the grill! Regardless, keep up the great work and empowering videos.
I agree with Ms. Erica Williams if more black alumnus would contribute a MINIMUM of 50 - 100 dollars ANNUALLY it would do so much to help!. Just look what's happening to the HBCU's in North Carolina!; how many fine HBCU'S have to go "the wsy of the dinosaur"?!. Most of our African A merican doctors, engineets & high ranking military officials have roots & connections to our fine HBCU'S. Sadly we as a people wait until something or someone is gone to APPRECIATE IT. Their are many people ( thank God not all ) who feel like the man who currently occupies the white house who would enjoy nothing better than to see the demise of our institutions. Don't let this happen, your collective history demamds that you.do something!. Respectfully, Anthony 🐜♌ Edwards
I go to North Carolina A&T and I am proud to be a student at this institution. I know that the people who run many HBCU's makes it unorganized. My school I believe, is under the control the UNCG system and do not receive the money like they should. I received a great education in the school of Journalism and would argue till my face is blue if someone had the nerve to tell me that my BA is not equal to there's. Also we produce great alumni. However a lot of these alumni don't donate back to the school. And alumni participation helps any university in terms of ranking, money, and students. It all comes down to for us to take back what's ours and giving back to the community. I am a strong believer that we will get there but it will take a lot of work. I am proud of my hbcu, Aggie pride, and hbcus in general. As black people we should not openly bash our foundations. Thats my rant for the day
Amen. Always speak the truth. Integrity is hard to come by now and days. I appreciate your honesty about the process of applying for a job as a Professor at a HBCU'S. Sounds very similar to what the students have to endure at the HBCU'S.
One of the Administrators that recently taught at my HBCU was recently let go because of an investigation of some sort and now has a similar position in China. Someone Black. Being Radical at an HBCU to me is a slippery slope much like Nick Cannon's recent comments on a podcast that backfired on his other jobs. I understood everything that was said, and I see why the thought exists. But Speaking from my experience at my HBCU, HBCUs can be frowned up by the community just for being more Black focussed. Even the Blacks at the nearby PWIs, in our case- across the street, talked DOWN on attending the HBCU despite many of them having to later transfer to our HBCU for whatever reason, but we already cannot afford additional radical or negative reviews that don't specifically center around education. When I was a student myself, even the Organizations I was in, planning events and projects I worked on felt like the University was against me. It doesn't dawn on you at the time, but their greatest liability is allowing their Brand to be hijacked with a student that is not obligated to protect their Brand, and I imagine a Professor too. In hindsight I do think a Brand needs to have a single message: Education. Preparing them for the future etc. I had a beautiful Civil Rights Activist as my professor once. She wasn't radical but you can tell there was a greatness she held us to, while being black in a White Man's World. Author Toni Morrison also taught at our University. I didn't take her class, so I can't attest to the content she touched on as it refers to her wokeness written in her Books, but I can say at least from what I recall, it was nothing enough to be a side-brand of the University. It wasn't Toni Morrison and (My HBCU). It was just my HBCU. I think the way HBCUs are structured are just to be a parallel of PWIs. Not an additional class by Betty Shabazz n' Company. Not a Black Power Summit. Not BET Uncut. Not a Source Awards and BET Hip Hop Awards hosting site. Education. I don't think PWIs capitalize on the W, in PWI and focus around that. I think we may misunderstand what an HBCU is supposed to be for or function as, or maybe it just took a turn? I do know we need to qualify for state and federal funds as we heavily depend on that, and we need to remain in compliance to qualify for this funding. I don't think Radical anything helps white lawmakers say " Let's refinance this HBCU cause we need more radical black graduates." This exactly the opposite of what they want. And I get it. It's like conditioning us to be "obedient" among other words. But College for most is just preparing us for the world. In that preparation, we DO need to be exposed to other races as professors, because that's the reflection of the world: diverse! As much as I would love to have an all black teaching staff, it's just not realistic for the world we live in because we will be faced with so much more than that and will need to know how to perform for levels beyond those we set for ourselves. A World Class institution can be World Class, if the staff doesn't reflect the world, I imagine. I'm with you on, we're only taught to work for White Companies. I've written our old President about this SEVERAL times! Not just because we shouldn't, but also because the trajectory is an increase in black owned business entrepreneurs! That's common sense. But outside of all this, HBCUs are fragile. We do still tap dance for the purpose of State and Federal Funding, for the purposes of resembling PWIs. And if not handled with care, we can then become under attack to the point SACS takes accreditation, and now the HBCU is no more... in the name of "own agenda disguised as "Radical."
The Association of American Medical Colleges has released data on the 6,188 Black students enrolled at U.S. medical schools during the 2017-18 academic year. As expected, the three historically Black medical schools have the largest number of Black students. Meharry Medical College in Nashville, Tennessee, has the most Black students with 350. Black students are 72 percent of the total enrollments at Meharry. Howard University in Washington, D.C., enrolls 304 Black students. At Howard, Blacks are 60 percent of the student body. At Morehouse School of Medicine in Atlanta, there are 247 Black students, making up 67 percent of total enrollments. (Each school also lists several biracial students.) Among the predominantly White medical schools, the largest number of Black students is at Indiana University. The 128 Black students at the Indiana University School of Medicine make up nearly 9 percent of the student body. Other medical schools with more than 100 Black students are at the University of California, Los Angeles, the Medical College of Georgia, the University of Illinois, and the University of North Carolina. Medical schools with more than 80 Black students included Ohio State University, the Medical University of South Carolina, and New York Medical School. According to the Association of American Medical Colleges, the medical schools at the following universities had no Black students: the University of Hawaii, the University of North Dakota, the University of South Dakota, and Washington State University. There were less than five Black students at the medical schools at California Northstate, the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, and the University of Utah.
What's "an HBCU"? Are you talking about Hampton, which is totally different from FAMU, which is totally different from Philander Smith, which is totally different from Morehouse? In other words there's no "typical" HBCU to reach conclusions about. Institutional types (large research institution, small liberal arts college, flagship state school, etc.) is another story. They have more in common with others in their type than HBCUs, which are many "types."
Clearly, this is why the HBCU's are not doing as well as other mainstream universities. If you cannot get quality professors in why would anyone want to go there. Perhaps, they could reach out to alums!!
@ Boyce watkins: You should use the same camera/camcorder you use to record your daily videos as the one you did to record when you were recently with Dr. Claud Anderson. It was very crisp. As if you were shooting in 4k.
i graduated from an HBCU (Benedict College, 1980-1990). Approx. 90 percent of the faculty and staff were black. My experience was excellent. I know there are a number of HBCUs struggling, but we the black community needs to look within and encourage some of our youths to become educators. Black educators are scarce everywhere, especially in public schools. As far as most HBCUs being started by whites/government, well people do know some if not most of thesr schools came into existence during the postbellum period, and the Freedman Bureau or white northern abolitionist were part of providing schools for the exslaves, and these basic schools eventually blossomed into our current HBCUs. So let's frame the argument around HBCUs correctly. Furthermore, a number of white universities have a hostory of the klan influence, and I sure don't hear black folks or Boyce's criticism about that!
Wow, I really avoiding watching this clip because I just knew I would not agree with the premise. But, wow other than the discussion about being a more radical professor I have to agree. Because at Tuskegee University professors were able to speak pretty darn freely about race and racial matters. I could just imagine anyone trying to have a tamper it down conversation with professor Fluker at Tuskegee!
HBCU's deal exactly the same as PWI it's just aggravating to black people because we expect more form our people. He's right though faculty at HBCU's is way too diversified.
Dr. Boyce, Thank you for being a valuable asset in sharing knowledge within the African American community. However, I must respectfully disagree with you opinion regarding HBCU's. Let's be clear and accurate and include Howard University an HBCU for a desegregated south, WEB Dubois attended Fisk before Harvard. Soon I will be Triple Howard University Bison. BA, MPA, and my entire department for the most part is African American. I find your message incredibly misinformed so here is what I am going to do. I will contact you fall of 2016 to discuss your misinformation via online discussion . I say this with the greatest respect and humility for you. I would like to get the students together in my department undergrad and graduate to discuss any questions regarding HBCUs from those whom have had and are having a HBCU experience. Prior to my HBCU experience I attended a PWI and I can say with confidence and great pride that I am glad I went to Howard U and not a PWI. Kind Regards,
Must be Hampton. My son applied to Hampton but they didn't send a response until almost a year later.He was accepted at a white school.Hurt his feelings.
I did not write this, but it's an excellent level of thinking and commentary. Geo Cooper #1 HBCU doesn't mean exclusively Black... #2 Just because somebody tells you you're too radical or too "Black" you gonna shy away (Like they don't do that at the PWIs) #3 You're not that radical. Truth, you don't support HBCUs adamantly, you support them marginally. You were asked to take a pay cut. No, you were asked to work for what they could pay you. You chose not to work there so go to the white schools that can pay you. But don't you see that you're doing the very same thing that our athletes are doing...selling their treasure to PWIs making them stronger and richer. When a scholar with cred choses a PWI over an HBCU, you are choosing YOUR comfort over the responsibility to YOUR people. Or, maybe we aren't YOUR people. In any case, HBCUs need the sacrifice of great people to advance and continue their mission. Think about this Dr., a University should be a citadel of learning, thought, and ideas. An intellectual community that furthers a people's social growth. Black people in the Americas desire a quality life and to increase that quality, we need institutions to help us better ourselves. Your Alma Maters, UK and IU, they weren't founded for the advancement of BLACK people. I feel....I feel you need to think a little longer on HBCUs and how YOU can help. If you don't want to sacrifice for the cause, you don't have to, but then keep our names out your mouth.
I will admit that looking at the title I was like not you too..but listening to what you said, you make a lot of sense. It is a shame the state our people are in and how much we conform to society. I have a Masters in Special Ed and teach on the middle school level..Black educators are scarce everywhere.
True about the disorganization. One of the hbcu I applied for had called me to say that they didn't receive my sat/act scores and when I told them what month I took the tests then they found that it was in their system just wasn't coming up under my name
Dr.B this video is extremely influential I was almost willing to move to a different city just to go to a hbcu but I had to realize its not about the college but what you do with the degree and how you give back and improve the community that matters. Although I will say that hopefully I can get my accredited masters from a hbcu ill have to just make do with this pwi.
Hello Dr. Boyce I was curious on your opinion regarding Multi-level Marketing business opportunities. I was curious since they appear to be one of the business opportunities that are frequently seen in the black community. I am not sure if they are legitimate businesses that would be good to look into or pyramid schemes.
I don't why someone should give a damn about who teaches at which University...if it's that important to you that every professor is Black, the school retain all Black leadership, etc., then go repeal Plessy vs Ferguson.
When will HBCU start putting more focus on the US military black personnel. Their target audience is to narrow. As a veteran, I watch rise of online and distance education in many forms, yet we rally see HBCU frequent these spaces. Even with COViD, one would think things would changed. As a black veteran, I would have love for my Montgomery GiBill and Post 9-11 GiBill to go to a HBCU.
It's too bad you didn't apply at Jackson State. Maybe you can help people setup groups that help setup organizations like what you're doing now on campus
Very interesting comments, I laughed to myself when I heard your story thinking, that’s about right. I attended and love that school to death. Unfortunately, I know that your comments are true; they are starting to slowly break out of the (VHS) method of thinking. Very good school but some of the approaches and methods can seem to be a little dated!! Recent changes in the staff should move them in the right direction with young blood.
Of late HBCUs are starting to receive financial endowments. God willing they will continue to be the there for our people. Our students desperately need faculty/staff who look like them. Young people must find out how to navigate in life and in their chosen careers to be successful. This guidance often comes from individuals who can draw from lived experiences.
This is profoundly disappointing. But, it reminds me of an experience I had with Langston University in Oklahoma. I enrolled in a Black History class during the summer, and was surprised because the instructor was from Egypt. I did not encounter professors from other ethnic groups when I attended Dillard University in New Orleans.
Oh lord not Langston! I went there for two years and many of my teachers were white or Asian. It didn't make a difference anyway because when I moved I found out they weren't accredited anymore and couldn't transfer my units.
" I enrolled in a Black History class during the summer, and was surprised because the instructor was from Egypt." Why were u disappointed that the teacher was from egypt, a country in africa, and was teaching black history?
Hey my good Professor Watkins ... went to a HBCU in dirty South Carolina ... I felt miseducated and left after a year and semester. Got into Big 10 Indiana Univ./Bloomington ... and the rest is my "good" history. Yea!!!
I hear what you are saying about people that don't want to reveal the source of the PhD. But since you stated your opinion in the absolute I must moderate your statement by adding that there is the rule and there is the exception. What you said is true as a rule but there is always an exception. My PhD is in Religion Studies. The information I present is revolutionary so when people hear me speak they always ask two questions: where did I go to school and/or where do I go to church. The reason they ask theses questions is because they want to go where they think I acquired the information so they can get what I have. However, I have to tell them that I didn't receive this information by going to school or going to church. I received what I have by spending a great deal of time in the Bible and in the presence of GOD. I also don't want people to know where I went to school because I had a bad experience there and I have a lot of defaming things to say about the place and the people who work there. So if I say these things and nobody knows what school I'm talking about I can't get sued. Another reason is when you are a revolutionary those who are in the establishment try to play the qualification game. That is, they try to imply that your education was not of quality if you went to a Bible school for example rather than a university in an effort to disqualify you as an expert. The final reason I don't tell people where I went to school is to protect them from the SIN of familiarity. The religious leaders rejected Jesus' teaching because he was a local boy and they knew his family: "Is not this the carpenter's son and is not his mother called Mary? and his brethren, James, and Joses, and Simon, and Judas (Matthew 13:55)? In Hosea 4:6-9 GOD says: if you reject knowledge I will reject you... and I will reject your children." Therefore, in order to protect people the best I can from becoming too familiar and rejecting knowledge it is best to not give them knowledge that they don't really need.
Peace Dr. Watkins, thanks for this channel and sharing your vast financial knowledge and insight with us....I would love to hear your insight and opinion on Lebron's James dropping his deal with McDonald's and investing in the BLAZE pizza franchise. Thanks!!
IF we went to CHINA and Tried to Take Over a SCHOOL As Black People The CHINESSE Would Laugh At US. DR. Wakins You HAD Me on The Floor Laughing, But That's Black People We Give Up Everything. The Blues, Rock and Roll, Jazz etc.
Xavier University of La was started by a White nun. Here in 2019 it has numerous departments that are controlled by white or non-black people. It has more white instructors than black. It also has a white woman who is second in command and poised to be the university president. Interesting to say the least!
+The King a sister on RUclips did a one hour video explaining the research shes done to determine whether or not he got one. she ended up calling the school and the only thing she was able to determine was he went to school for one, but it doesn't seem as if he completed all of his requirements. the only thing he's been able to produce so far is a graduation program with his name in it which doesn't really mean much.
+Edwin Carter If Dr Umar really don't have his Doctorate, then don't you think somebody at the professional level would have called him out already? I mean he's been calling himself a doctor for a few years now. Or maybe you're just a racist, devil, white troll looking to spread dissension in the black community. BE GONE, DEVIL TROLL!!!!!
+kemetman1 hes been getting called out for the longest. that's why the woman made that video. I've no reason to "troll". don't take my word for it. look up his credentials for yourself and see what you find. just don't be a blind sheep though is all I'm saying.
Whose the sister? What's her channel? Provide receipts... You're mostly likely white. Leave us alone you troll. Umar isn't perfect but he def knows his stuff so...
+BlacknesUnforgivable 1st Irish is an ethnic group, Kenya is a country with multiple ethnic groups. Second, point to the document that says this. As a matter of fact Uncle Sam says any one can be Afro American if they were born in the geography of Africa. you've been scammed into a fake nationality.
But! Blast Dion Sanders for leaving Jackson state you and Dr. Claude Anderson, and you have first hand knowledge of the HBCU. I am convinced you did it for likes
#1 HBCU doesn't mean exclusively Black... #2 Just because somebody tells you you're too radical or too "Black" you gonna shy away (Like they don't do that at the PWIs) #3 You're not that radical. Truth, you don't support HBCUs adamantly, you support them marginally. You were asked to take a pay cut. No, you were asked to work for what they could pay you. You chose not to work there so go to the white schools that can pay you. But don't you see that you're doing the very same thing that our athletes are doing...selling their treasure to PWIs making them stronger and richer. When a scholar with cred choses a PWI over an HBCU, you are choosing YOUR comfort over the responsibility to YOUR people. Or, maybe we aren't YOUR people. In any case, HBCUs need the sacrifice of great people to advance and continue their mission. Think about this Dr., a University should be a citadel of learning, thought, and ideas. An intellectual community that furthers a people's social growth. Black people in the Americas desire a quality life and to increase that quality, we need institutions to help us better ourselves. Your Alma Maters, UK and IU, they weren't founded for the advancement of BLACK people. I feel....I feel you need to think a little longer on HBCUs and how YOU can help. If you don't want to sacrifice for the cause, you don't have to, but then keep our names out your mouth.
I want to call out my daughter's HBCU so badly I could scream....I will just say that I was greatly surprised by the disorganization at the administration level that takes place which greatly overshadows every positive aspect of attending there.
Name names!
Is it Norfolk State? I wouldn't be surprised
Black alumni do not donate similarly as white alumni. even if every alumni member just donated $50-$100 dollars a year it would make a ridiculous difference. that's the main reason.I know several friends who work at HBCUs in NC and they just lack the donations and funding. I see a high number of HBCUs get a 2 Million dollar donation and the school is straight. Its a big difference when you only have 3000 or 2000 students.If these schools fall under 5,000 students it gets tough on the budget. HBCUs created the MOST BLACK PROFESSIONALS and DOCTORS PERIOD.
Check out Claflin University. They need to be the blueprint of giving back.
Ummm I disagree with your comment! Benedict College Alumni does an awesome job with giving back to the school but there’s still financial issues! I don’t think it’s even fair to compare an HBCU to PWI because there’s such a huge difference! Hell we don’t even campaign on the same level as a PWI and some of it is access and median range income for your average graduate! I have worked in institutional advancement and I’ve studied neighboring PWI’s... Benedict, Claflin, and SC STATE all have awesome alumni support, but our budgets and annual givings dwarf in comparison to schools like USC, CLEMSON, WOFFORD, FURMAN.... and I’m willing to bet you can directly connect that with job placement and median range incomes! 🤷🏾♂️
I graduated from Hampton U. I agree with your point of view on HBCUs. I love what they stand for however there are a so many things that need improvement.
On your point of "sticking together". I'm going through that right now. I constantly see other blacks at work actively/passively working against each other. It's amazing, sad, and disheartening all at the same time.
"People are happier when your not succeeding" is so true.
I think he misspoke... It should have been "people are happier when you're doing what they want you to do."
+Boyce Watkins Wow! I'm astonished but not surprised at what youre saying. Because HBCUs are so defunded, mismanaged and brainwashed, the overall product is just horrible. I remembered when I applied for FAMU and I was accepted with scholarships. I went to the admissions dept and they lost all my paper including my scholarship information. Right, then and there I went over to Florida State… one of the best decisions I've made. It's just sad that a lot of these HBCUs are missing out on good students because their operations are just horrible.
I went to Bethune-Cookman, I know that there are whites on the board of trustees yet I loved my college because we had many Black teachers that were pro-black. I had a leadership teacher that was very strict on all of his students. He taught us how and why we needed to know how interactions would be in corporate america. It was my best class by far. I had other professors that were this way as well. It was the truth and showed me how white people would treat me in corporate america, boy was he right.
He said we have to stand up and protect ourselves. We are not doing enough of that. Let's discuss the different ways we can do that....right here, right now!
BLACK PEOPLE NEED TO LEARN TO LUV &PROTECT ONE ANOTHER for life!...then everyone else will follow!
At my HBCU I majored in Comp Engr and only 1 of the professors in the entire dept was black. The rest where all foreign, but I was still able to get a good education so I do not think HBCU's need to have black professors necessarily. On a side note the dean of engineering was black so its all good.
Many of the HBCUS have poor leadership, financially unstabled and do not offer the resources that students need to be successful. I also would not blame someone who just invested a considerable amount of money in obtaining a PHD and decide to work at Duke University and earn enough money to pay off student loans rather than taking a job at South Carolina State University and wonder if your department will still be in existence next semester.
Your comment generalizes HBCU's. They are not all financially unstable and a lot of them have great leadership, it just depends which school you are talking about. Xavier University of Louisiana, Spellman College, Morehouse College, North Carolina A&T and others have done very. HBCU's do not get the same level of funding compared to mostly white universities. As for your comment about HBCU not offering the resources to students to successful, that is not true for many schools when you consider HBCU's are 3% of the universities in America and graduate 20% of black students in America every year. 70% of black doctors are HBCU alumni. This follows through in law, engineering and science. Most HBCU's are liberal arts colleges, so it makes you wonder with all the resources mostly white colleges have, they have not produced the same results as HBCU. The reason why there is a black professional class and black middle class is because of HBCU's.
HBCUs are run by minorities, of course they’re not going to be financially stable.
I love the education I am receiving at Howard University
Did you graduate yet?
@@MrTC-cp2gv yes, I did! Looking forward to finishing my master's degree. 🙂
I went to and graduated from an HBCU--When I registered for classes, I learned that Black History was not a mandatory class. I was shocked. We had to take World Civilization.
The last time I heard of World Civ, was at St. Aug in Raleigh NC. 86 to 90.
HbCU are owned by whites why would that be mandatory🤷🏾♀️
You cannot standout while trying to fit in.
The chair or Morehouse's Department of Computer Science is Chinese and, truth be told, I don't even blame him or Morehouse. When you have Black people who don't enroll in majors that are lucrative on the job market then you can't expect for there to be Black professors who teach the subject. I went to Rutgers because it is my local university but the truth is that it gave me a better position to enter the professional computing industry than the HBCU computer science graduates that I know.
"When you have Black people who don't enroll in majors that are lucrative on the job market then you can't expect for there to be Black professors who teach the subject."
So there are no black computer science majors?? Very hard to believe.
NOCDIB What Rutgers✊🏿
Alexandra4real so him getting his degree for computer science was just a illusion no other black person though about if
Me too. Rutgers New Brunswick. Douglass College
Boyce is a sly dog LOL @3:52 He says "Prairie View ......... I just said the name of the school the cat's out the bag....."
This is a video not a live broadcast . Just edit the video LOL
+SUPERSPORTS You are so right and I didn't catch that. LoL!!!
+SUPERSPORTS Bol! You're right, he could have just edited it out.
I love hearing these stories from your early teaching days. What you are doing now doesn't even compare. Peace
Aww man, this explains why they more than likely shut you down at Howard yesterday. Cmon Boyce, the truth scares people. You gotta drop videos like this the day after, not before. Gotta cus out the restaurant after you finished your meal, not while your steak is still on the grill! Regardless, keep up the great work and empowering videos.
Black ppl claim finance is a problem in our community but almost all hbcu's offer no finance degree
Very informational. But I still want to be an Alumni of an HBCU though.
they hold all the coins
Even if HBCU is really a plantation with non white (or black) overseers??
I wish the elders and youth were aware of this . Everyone's so wrapped up in the HBCU.
I agree with Ms. Erica Williams if more black alumnus would contribute a MINIMUM of 50 - 100 dollars ANNUALLY it would do so much to help!. Just look what's happening to the HBCU's in North Carolina!; how many fine HBCU'S have to go "the wsy of the dinosaur"?!. Most of our African A merican doctors, engineets & high ranking military officials have roots & connections to our fine HBCU'S. Sadly we as a people wait until something or someone is gone to APPRECIATE IT. Their are many people ( thank God not all ) who feel like the man who currently occupies the white house who would enjoy nothing better than to see the demise of our institutions. Don't let this happen, your collective history demamds that you.do something!.
Respectfully,
Anthony 🐜♌ Edwards
I go to North Carolina A&T and I am proud to be a student at this institution. I know that the people who run many HBCU's makes it unorganized. My school I believe, is under the control the UNCG system and do not receive the money like they should. I received a great education in the school of Journalism and would argue till my face is blue if someone had the nerve to tell me that my BA is not equal to there's. Also we produce great alumni. However a lot of these alumni don't donate back to the school. And alumni participation helps any university in terms of ranking, money, and students. It all comes down to for us to take back what's ours and giving back to the community. I am a strong believer that we will get there but it will take a lot of work. I am proud of my hbcu, Aggie pride, and hbcus in general. As black people we should not openly bash our foundations. Thats my rant for the day
Amen. Always speak the truth. Integrity is hard to come by now and days.
I appreciate your honesty about the process of applying for a job as a Professor at a HBCU'S. Sounds very similar to what the students have to endure at the HBCU'S.
One of the Administrators that recently taught at my HBCU was recently let go because of an investigation of some sort and now has a similar position in China. Someone Black.
Being Radical at an HBCU to me is a slippery slope much like Nick Cannon's recent comments on a podcast that backfired on his other jobs.
I understood everything that was said, and I see why the thought exists. But
Speaking from my experience at my HBCU, HBCUs can be frowned up by the community just for being more Black focussed. Even the Blacks at the nearby PWIs, in our case- across the street, talked DOWN on attending the HBCU despite many of them having to later transfer to our HBCU for whatever reason, but we already cannot afford additional radical or negative reviews that don't specifically center around education.
When I was a student myself, even the Organizations I was in, planning events and projects I worked on felt like the University was against me. It doesn't dawn on you at the time, but their greatest liability is allowing their Brand to be hijacked with a student that is not obligated to protect their Brand, and I imagine a Professor too.
In hindsight I do think a Brand needs to have a single message: Education. Preparing them for the future etc. I had a beautiful Civil Rights Activist as my professor once. She wasn't radical but you can tell there was a greatness she held us to, while being black in a White Man's World. Author Toni Morrison also taught at our University. I didn't take her class, so I can't attest to the content she touched on as it refers to her wokeness written in her Books, but I can say at least from what I recall, it was nothing enough to be a side-brand of the University. It wasn't Toni Morrison and (My HBCU). It was just my HBCU.
I think the way HBCUs are structured are just to be a parallel of PWIs. Not an additional class by Betty Shabazz n' Company. Not a Black Power Summit. Not BET Uncut. Not a Source Awards and BET Hip Hop Awards hosting site. Education. I don't think PWIs capitalize on the W, in PWI and focus around that.
I think we may misunderstand what an HBCU is supposed to be for or function as, or maybe it just took a turn? I do know we need to qualify for state and federal funds as we heavily depend on that, and we need to remain in compliance to qualify for this funding. I don't think Radical anything helps white lawmakers say " Let's refinance this HBCU cause we need more radical black graduates."
This exactly the opposite of what they want.
And I get it. It's like conditioning us to be "obedient" among other words. But College for most is just preparing us for the world.
In that preparation, we DO need to be exposed to other races as professors, because that's the reflection of the world: diverse! As much as I would love to have an all black teaching staff, it's just not realistic for the world we live in because we will be faced with so much more than that and will need to know how to perform for levels beyond those we set for ourselves. A World Class institution can be World Class, if the staff doesn't reflect the world, I imagine.
I'm with you on, we're only taught to work for White Companies. I've written our old President about this SEVERAL times! Not just because we shouldn't, but also because the trajectory is an increase in black owned business entrepreneurs! That's common sense.
But outside of all this, HBCUs are fragile. We do still tap dance for the purpose of State and Federal Funding, for the purposes of resembling PWIs. And if not handled with care, we can then become under attack to the point SACS takes accreditation, and now the HBCU is no more... in the name of "own agenda disguised as "Radical."
“When ppl get mad when you ask Where they went to school and got there PhD, it’s probably cos it’s fake” fwd to Dr. Umar
That's right don't shrink or stop being who you are for anyone.
Thank you for everything that you are doing Doctor...Simply thank you.
I appreciate what you are doing; keep up the good work
The Association of American Medical Colleges has released data on the 6,188 Black students enrolled at U.S. medical schools during the 2017-18 academic year.
As expected, the three historically Black medical schools have the largest number of Black students. Meharry Medical College in Nashville, Tennessee, has the most Black students with 350. Black students are 72 percent of the total enrollments at Meharry. Howard University in Washington, D.C., enrolls 304 Black students. At Howard, Blacks are 60 percent of the student body. At Morehouse School of Medicine in Atlanta, there are 247 Black students, making up 67 percent of total enrollments. (Each school also lists several biracial students.)
Among the predominantly White medical schools, the largest number of Black students is at Indiana University. The 128 Black students at the Indiana University School of Medicine make up nearly 9 percent of the student body. Other medical schools with more than 100 Black students are at the University of California, Los Angeles, the Medical College of Georgia, the University of Illinois, and the University of North Carolina. Medical schools with more than 80 Black students included Ohio State University, the Medical University of South Carolina, and New York Medical School.
According to the Association of American Medical Colleges, the medical schools at the following universities had no Black students: the University of Hawaii, the University of North Dakota, the University of South Dakota, and Washington State University. There were less than five Black students at the medical schools at California Northstate, the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, and the University of Utah.
What's "an HBCU"? Are you talking about Hampton, which is totally different from FAMU, which is totally different from Philander Smith, which is totally different from Morehouse? In other words there's no "typical" HBCU to reach conclusions about. Institutional types (large research institution, small liberal arts college, flagship state school, etc.) is another story. They have more in common with others in their type than HBCUs, which are many "types."
Clearly, this is why the HBCU's are not doing as well as other mainstream universities. If you cannot get quality professors in why would anyone want to go there. Perhaps, they could reach out to alums!!
This is not a surprise, I taught at two HBCUs and I was one of about five lackmen who worked at the school which included faculty and staff
@ Boyce watkins: You should use the same camera/camcorder you use to record your daily videos as the one you did to record when you were recently with Dr. Claud Anderson. It was very crisp. As if you were shooting in 4k.
i graduated from an HBCU (Benedict College, 1980-1990). Approx. 90 percent of the faculty and staff were black. My experience was excellent. I know there are a number of HBCUs struggling, but we the black community needs to look within and encourage some of our youths to become educators. Black educators are scarce everywhere, especially in public schools. As far as most HBCUs being started by whites/government, well people do know some if not most of thesr schools came into existence during the postbellum period, and the Freedman Bureau or white northern abolitionist were part of providing schools for the exslaves, and these basic schools eventually blossomed into our current HBCUs. So let's frame the argument around HBCUs correctly. Furthermore, a number of white universities have a hostory of the klan influence, and I sure don't hear black folks or Boyce's criticism about that!
Thanks Mr Watkins! College is not the same as it was 20 years ago!!
A LOT OF FAKE PHDs out here!!!!!
When will you speak in Oakland?
Wow, I really avoiding watching this clip because I just knew I would not agree with the premise. But, wow other than the discussion about being a more radical professor I have to agree. Because at Tuskegee University professors were able to speak pretty darn freely about race and racial matters. I could just imagine anyone trying to have a tamper it down conversation with professor Fluker at Tuskegee!
HBCU's deal exactly the same as PWI it's just aggravating to black people because we expect more form our people. He's right though faculty at HBCU's is way too diversified.
Dr. Boyce, Thank you for being a valuable asset in sharing knowledge within the African American community. However, I must respectfully disagree with you opinion regarding HBCU's. Let's be clear and accurate and include Howard University an HBCU for a desegregated south, WEB Dubois attended Fisk before Harvard. Soon I will be Triple Howard University Bison. BA, MPA, and my entire department for the most part is African American. I find your message incredibly misinformed so here is what I am going to do. I will contact you fall of 2016 to discuss your misinformation via online discussion . I say this with the greatest respect and humility for you. I would like to get the students together in my department undergrad and graduate to discuss any questions regarding HBCUs from those whom have had and are having a HBCU experience. Prior to my HBCU experience I attended a PWI and I can say with confidence and great pride that I am glad I went to Howard U and not a PWI. Kind Regards,
Funny how people use this as an opportunity to bash HBCUs
Shut up
Must be Hampton. My son applied to Hampton but they didn't send a response until almost a year later.He was accepted at a white school.Hurt his feelings.
I did not write this, but it's an excellent level of thinking and commentary.
Geo Cooper #1 HBCU doesn't mean exclusively Black... #2 Just because somebody tells you you're too radical or too "Black" you gonna shy away (Like they don't do that at the PWIs) #3 You're not that radical. Truth, you don't support HBCUs adamantly, you support them marginally. You were asked to take a pay cut. No, you were asked to work for what they could pay you. You chose not to work there so go to the white schools that can pay you. But don't you see that you're doing the very same thing that our athletes are doing...selling their treasure to PWIs making them stronger and richer. When a scholar with cred choses a PWI over an HBCU, you are choosing YOUR comfort over the responsibility to YOUR people. Or, maybe we aren't YOUR people. In any case, HBCUs need the sacrifice of great people to advance and continue their mission. Think about this Dr., a University should be a citadel of learning, thought, and ideas. An intellectual community that furthers a people's social growth. Black people in the Americas desire a quality life and to increase that quality, we need institutions to help us better ourselves. Your Alma Maters, UK and IU, they weren't founded for the advancement of BLACK people. I feel....I feel you need to think a little longer on HBCUs and how YOU can help. If you don't want to sacrifice for the cause, you don't have to, but then keep our names out your mouth.
I will admit that looking at the title I was like not you too..but listening to what you said, you make a lot of sense. It is a shame the state our people are in and how much we conform to society. I have a Masters in Special Ed and teach on the middle school level..Black educators are scarce everywhere.
True about the disorganization. One of the hbcu I applied for had called me to say that they didn't receive my sat/act scores and when I told them what month I took the tests then they found that it was in their system just wasn't coming up under my name
Dr.B this video is extremely influential I was almost willing to move to a different city just to go to a hbcu but I had to realize its not about the college but what you do with the degree and how you give back and improve the community that matters. Although I will say that hopefully I can get my accredited masters from a hbcu ill have to just make do with this pwi.
so I won't be able to see Dr. Boyce today???
Cost of attending universities in the US is ridiculous in comparison to other countries and only a handful make it into top world universities.
this is sadly the case when it comes to biology and the sciences, at HBCUs
Hello Dr. Boyce I was curious on your opinion regarding Multi-level Marketing business opportunities. I was curious since they appear to be one of the business opportunities that are frequently seen in the black community. I am not sure if they are legitimate businesses that would be good to look into or pyramid schemes.
Might be a dumb question but how can you fake your degree don't employers check into information that you submit
+SomdahSaysSo They sure as hell check your skin colour more than qualification.
Not true, I faked it for a long time
+SomdahSaysSo You would think so.. but unfortunately people are often hired based upon who they know vs what is on their resume.
Beck it's funny because they only check if they feel you aren't capable of higher education or the money is good
+TheJohndoe908 How? Weren't you ever worried that you would be found out ? Don't they start checking credentials as you get promoted?
A Genius in our mist! Too black too strong is never wrong.. peace Dr !
I don't why someone should give a damn about who teaches at which University...if it's that important to you that every professor is Black, the school retain all Black leadership, etc., then go repeal Plessy vs Ferguson.
I love this man
never had the desire to attend a hbcu
Soon 2 b PhD. Howard University! Look out world!
Put Dr. Kambon in the RUclips search so your mind can be blown.
When will HBCU start putting more focus on the US military black personnel. Their target audience is to narrow. As a veteran, I watch rise of online and distance education in many forms, yet we rally see HBCU frequent these spaces. Even with COViD, one would think things would changed. As a black veteran, I would have love for my Montgomery GiBill and Post 9-11 GiBill to go to a HBCU.
It's too bad you didn't apply at Jackson State. Maybe you can help people setup groups that help setup organizations like what you're doing now on campus
Powerful assessment of the HBCUs. its like art of war
Very interesting comments, I laughed to myself when I heard
your story thinking, that’s about right. I attended and love that school to
death. Unfortunately, I know that your comments are true; they are starting to
slowly break out of the (VHS) method of thinking. Very good school but some of
the approaches and methods can seem to be a little dated!! Recent changes in
the staff should move them in the right direction with young blood.
Of late HBCUs are starting to receive financial endowments. God willing they will continue to be the there for our people. Our students desperately need faculty/staff who look like them. Young people must find out how to navigate in life and in their chosen careers to be successful. This guidance often comes from individuals who can draw from lived experiences.
I’ve had the most compassion and understanding from non black teachers. My black teachers were the ones trying to make it harder for me.
Support black business and black schools. Do everything black!!
I Love your videos Dr. Watkins! I watch them from Ghana!
Thank you!
The big part of this is sticking together, if we come together as a whole things would be greater.
The same discrimination laws that protect you also protect them when they apply to an HBCU.
This is profoundly disappointing. But, it reminds me of an experience I had with Langston University in Oklahoma. I enrolled in a Black History class during the summer, and was surprised because the instructor was from Egypt.
I did not encounter professors from other ethnic groups when I attended Dillard University in New Orleans.
Oh lord not Langston! I went there for two years and many of my teachers were white or Asian. It didn't make a difference anyway because when I moved I found out they weren't accredited anymore and couldn't transfer my units.
" I enrolled in a Black History class during the summer, and was surprised because the instructor was from Egypt."
Why were u disappointed that the teacher was from egypt, a country in africa, and was teaching black history?
The truth is you'd never get past probationary period.
Hey my good Professor Watkins ... went to a HBCU in dirty South Carolina ... I felt miseducated and left after a year and semester. Got into Big 10 Indiana Univ./Bloomington ... and the rest is my "good" history. Yea!!!
That's 1986-1990.
Where?
great info. thanks brah.
3:53 was this LIVE?
If it's the truth...this is embarrassing.
I hear what you are saying about people that don't want to reveal the source of the PhD. But since you stated your opinion in the absolute I must moderate your statement by adding that there is the rule and there is the exception. What you said is true as a rule but there is always an exception. My PhD is in Religion Studies. The information I present is revolutionary so when people hear me speak they always ask two questions: where did I go to school and/or where do I go to church.
The reason they ask theses questions is because they want to go where they think I acquired the information so they can get what I have. However, I have to tell them that I didn't receive this information by going to school or going to church. I received what I have by spending a great deal of time in the Bible and in the presence of GOD.
I also don't want people to know where I went to school because I had a bad experience there and I have a lot of defaming things to say about the place and the people who work there. So if I say these things and nobody knows what school I'm talking about I can't get sued.
Another reason is when you are a revolutionary those who are in the establishment try to play the qualification game. That is, they try to imply that your education was not of quality if you went to a Bible school for example rather than a university in an effort to disqualify you as an expert.
The final reason I don't tell people where I went to school is to protect them from the SIN of familiarity.
The religious leaders rejected Jesus' teaching because he was a local boy and they knew his family: "Is not this the carpenter's son and is not his mother called Mary? and his brethren, James, and Joses, and Simon, and Judas (Matthew 13:55)?
In Hosea 4:6-9 GOD says: if you reject knowledge I will reject you... and I will reject your children." Therefore, in order to protect people the best I can from becoming too familiar and rejecting knowledge it is best to not give them knowledge that they don't really need.
He said a mouthful!
Peace Dr. Watkins, thanks for this channel and sharing your vast financial knowledge and insight with us....I would love to hear your insight and opinion on Lebron's James dropping his deal with McDonald's and investing in the BLAZE pizza franchise. Thanks!!
Probably they don't qualify. Not many black people have Phd.
You speak the truth..... even in the blue collar world .... the same shit.
Lol, I agree & understand Dr.Watkins. Your relationships with HBCU’s seem to share the Bernie Mac Theory. “I know em but I don’t know em.”
im pretty sure a well educated black(hebrew) could go anywhere in the world and be a professor...
IF we went to CHINA and Tried to Take Over a SCHOOL
As Black People The CHINESSE Would Laugh At US.
DR. Wakins You HAD Me on The Floor Laughing,
But That's Black People We Give Up Everything. The Blues, Rock and Roll, Jazz etc.
Wait...are you saying you dont experience these things at PWOs?
Missing the point sis
Xavier University of La was started by a White nun. Here in 2019 it has numerous departments that are controlled by white or non-black people. It has more white instructors than black. It also has a white woman who is second in command and poised to be the university president. Interesting to say the least!
Sound like he applied to NCCU
Umar Johnson diss
You typically do better as a guest speaker as opposed to teaching in higher education.
AWESOME video
He sneak dissing dr umar lmao
sounds like Dr. Umar with those comments about fake PhDs lol.
+The King a sister on RUclips did a one hour video explaining the research shes done to determine whether or not he got one. she ended up calling the school and the only thing she was able to determine was he went to school for one, but it doesn't seem as if he completed all of his requirements. the only thing he's been able to produce so far is a graduation program with his name in it which doesn't really mean much.
MrToad dont have what exactly?
+Edwin Carter
If Dr Umar really don't have his Doctorate, then don't you think somebody at the professional level would have called him out already? I mean he's been calling himself a doctor for a few years now. Or maybe you're just a racist, devil, white troll looking to spread dissension in the black community. BE GONE, DEVIL TROLL!!!!!
+kemetman1 hes been getting called out for the longest. that's why the woman made that video.
I've no reason to "troll". don't take my word for it. look up his credentials for yourself and see what you find. just don't be a blind sheep though is all I'm saying.
Whose the sister? What's her channel? Provide receipts... You're mostly likely white. Leave us alone you troll. Umar isn't perfect but he def knows his stuff so...
Would Dr Watkins accept non black people into his wealth boot camps?
My HBCU feels like Bangladesh.
Pure Phuckery! When I was at St.Aug everybody was African or African American.
+BlacknesUnforgivable which one is Barack Obama?
+BlacknesUnforgivable
1st Irish is an ethnic group, Kenya is a country with multiple ethnic groups.
Second, point to the document that says this.
As a matter of fact Uncle Sam says any one can be Afro American if they were born in the geography of Africa.
you've been scammed into a fake nationality.
+BlacknesUnforgivable And he is a white man also.
Falcon Pride c/o 2000
When was this?. St. AUG 86-90
My Alma mater was privately founded and privately operated by black people.
What is the name of it please?
@@edwardadams8123 Morris Brown College in Atlanta.
But! Blast Dion Sanders for leaving Jackson state you and Dr. Claude Anderson, and you have first hand knowledge of the HBCU. I am convinced you did it for likes
You didn't pass Lithiums test( right blackness lol 😒BS My kids are not into HBCU which makes me sad but I completely understand.
right on d flash, it's mostly black women and effeminized black men and the older generation who have fallen for this!
#1 HBCU doesn't mean exclusively Black... #2 Just because somebody tells you you're too radical or too "Black" you gonna shy away (Like they don't do that at the PWIs) #3 You're not that radical. Truth, you don't support HBCUs adamantly, you support them marginally. You were asked to take a pay cut. No, you were asked to work for what they could pay you. You chose not to work there so go to the white schools that can pay you. But don't you see that you're doing the very same thing that our athletes are doing...selling their treasure to PWIs making them stronger and richer. When a scholar with cred choses a PWI over an HBCU, you are choosing YOUR comfort over the responsibility to YOUR people. Or, maybe we aren't YOUR people. In any case, HBCUs need the sacrifice of great people to advance and continue their mission. Think about this Dr., a University should be a citadel of learning, thought, and ideas. An intellectual community that furthers a people's social growth. Black people in the Americas desire a quality life and to increase that quality, we need institutions to help us better ourselves. Your Alma Maters, UK and IU, they weren't founded for the advancement of BLACK people. I feel....I feel you need to think a little longer on HBCUs and how YOU can help. If you don't want to sacrifice for the cause, you don't have to, but then keep our names out your mouth.
Shady response...shame on you
is this video why your event got canceled?