HBCU DIGEST: HBCU presidents, police chiefs deserve credit for handling of bomb threat crisis

Dozens of historically Black colleges and universities nationwide have been terrorized by bomb threats since the start of the new year, and more specifically in the last 48 hours. The cost to the campuses and their federal and municipal partners has been extraordinary; countless hours of overtime from police officers and investigators, administrative work time redeployed to crisis management and community response, and a heavy lift in media relations.

The good news is that the infrastructure for schools managing this stress test of attention and resource capacity has proven to be sound. The unheralded heroes of this national crisis have been the HBCU executives who have managed to show their expertise in relationship building and project management for campus assessment.