HBCU campuses are typically as busy as most major airports. Classes are in full swing, food service is up and running, the bookstore is open, and the student center is thriving. Band, sports, chorales and Greek life add color to the teeming campus, while Student Government Association, debate, academic clubs and honor societies add texture to the fabric of the HBCU experience.
Great piece, President Artis. Your analogy of an airport for explaining the essence of what HBCUs do was excellent. I do hope that the 1 billion dollars of the federal stimulus package are distributed based on objective and quantifiable metrics. Smaller, less well-known, airports were impacted far worse than others. Cheers to you, the other pilots, as well as your respective teams around the nation.
A very solid piece. And, kudos to Dr Clark for realizing we don’t have time to wait for the political climate to change and moving accordingly. Lawd’ knows if I had the resources I would replace a lot of these outdated “air traffic controllers”, but we have to work with what we got. Peace.
Great op-ed, Dr. Artis! The airport analogy is a great way of explaining organizational structure and institutional inequity for undergrads in a digestible way... I'll be incorporating this into the syllabus for my course "The Black Experience in American Higher Ed" in future semesters.
Great piece, President Artis. Your analogy of an airport for explaining the essence of what HBCUs do was excellent. I do hope that the 1 billion dollars of the federal stimulus package are distributed based on objective and quantifiable metrics. Smaller, less well-known, airports were impacted far worse than others. Cheers to you, the other pilots, as well as your respective teams around the nation.
A very solid piece. And, kudos to Dr Clark for realizing we don’t have time to wait for the political climate to change and moving accordingly. Lawd’ knows if I had the resources I would replace a lot of these outdated “air traffic controllers”, but we have to work with what we got. Peace.
Great op-ed, Dr. Artis! The airport analogy is a great way of explaining organizational structure and institutional inequity for undergrads in a digestible way... I'll be incorporating this into the syllabus for my course "The Black Experience in American Higher Ed" in future semesters.
Thank you!