Impending Collapse
Like other members of the HBCU
community,
I have been concerned for many years about the long-term survival of
HBCUs. My obsession with this question has been
expressed in four notes on this blog titled, "Why Are HBCUs
Still Needed?" (Part I, Part II, Part III, and Part IV) and related notes ("From HBCUs to BCUs", "HBCUs as a National
Laboratory", etc). But in recent months my thinking has returned to its
engineering roots. Being needed is not sufficient to ensure the
survival of any institutions under any circumstances. So my question has
become, "What should HBCUs do to survive the impending flood of IT
innovations in higher education that will overwhelm so many non-HBCUs?"
