10 - State of HBCUs – Part 1
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What’s going on at HBCUs today? When was the last time you checked in on your alma mater? Are you an active alumnus? Do you know what’s happening with its accreditation? Its endowment? HBCUbiquity’s host Thomas Joyner Jr. talks to Dr. Roslyn Artis, president of Benedict College in Columbia, S.C., who will tell you what’s she’s doing to ensure the college is around for another 150 years. Dr. Colette Pierce Burnette, president and CEO of Huston-Tillotson University in Austin, Texas tells you how she learns from her students and what it means to be a female president.   Joyner Jr. also is the president and CEO of the Tom Joyner Foundation.
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