How the President’s Rating System Could Benefit HBCUs 27 Aug 2013 | 06:07 am

Last week, President Obama proposed a comprehensive set of reforms aimed at making college more affordable.  Some of the reforms tread familiar ground such as the “Pay As You Earn” plan that ties a de...

2013 Black College Football Picks – Week 1 27 Aug 2013 | 04:51 am

Play along with the HBCU Digest Founding Editor Jarrett Carter Sr. and pick the winners for each week’s slate of black college football games in the comments section of each week’s post. Predicted wi...

VIDEO – Rising College Costs Hit Home at Clark Atlanta 26 Aug 2013 | 10:02 pm

VIDEO – Alabama State, Albany State Dance Lines Perform on MTV VMAs 26 Aug 2013 | 08:45 pm

The Stingettes and Passionettes appear at 4:45 of the video. Get More: 2013 VMA, Artists.MTV, Music, Miley Cyrus

A.M.E. Church Provides $1.5 Million Loan to Morris Brown, School Seeks Stay of Closure 26 Aug 2013 | 08:30 pm

Morris Brown College returned to bankruptcy proceedings with hopes of staying closure through a $1.5. million loan promise from the African Methodist Episcopal Church. According to SaportaReport.com,...

VIDEO – Obama ‘Biased’ For HBCUs? 24 Aug 2013 | 06:20 pm

White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest says that President Barack Obama is all in for historically black colleges.

Tony Atwater: Merger Talk with ODU Was Among Reasons for Firing 24 Aug 2013 | 07:26 am

Former Norfolk State University President Tony Atwater this evening said his sudden ouster was politically motivated, and possibly spurred by talk about a merger of NSU and nearby Old Dominion Univers...

Norfolk State Fires President Tony Atwater 24 Aug 2013 | 04:54 am

Multiple outlets in Virginia are reporting that Norfolk State University has fired president Tony Atwater. The Virginian-Pilot reports that Atwater, who was hired in July 2011, was dismissed following...

Obama Proposes Reforms to Financial Aid Policy 23 Aug 2013 | 07:52 am

President Obama today announced a plan “to combat rising college costs and make college affordable for American families,” which ties schools’ funding to a ranking determined by a number of indicators...

Obama Higher Ed Reforms Makes HBCU Perspectives Critical in Policy Development Stages 23 Aug 2013 | 01:06 am

President Barack Obama today announced plans to rate the nation’s colleges and university, and to tie federal funding for higher education appropriations and student financial aid to graduation rates,...