I have mentioned it before but let me firmly state that I am so proud that I am a product of an HBCU. Historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) are
institutions of higher education in the United States that were established
before 1964 with the intention of serving the black community. There are 105 historically black colleges and
universities (HBCUs) in the United States today, including public and private,
two-year and four-year institutions, medical schools and community colleges.
All are or were in the former slave states and territories of the U.S. except
for Central State University (Ohio), Cheyney University of Pennsylvania, Lewis
College of Business (Detroit, Michigan), Lincoln University (Pennsylvania), Wilberforce
University (Ohio), and now-defunct Western University (Kansas). Some closed
during the 20th century due to competition, the Great Depression and financial
difficulties after operating for decades.
Fisk University is a historically black university founded in 1866 in Nashville, Tennessee
to educate newly freed slaves of all ages,
Fisk University -- originally known as the Fisk Free Colored School -- would
eventually become a premiere liberal arts institution. The school owes it
origins to both the hunger of ex-slaves for formal education and the missionary
zeal of a group of Northern whites raised in abolitionist families who
dedicated themselves to the education of African Americans. At a time when
recently freed blacks were establishing makeshift schools all over the South
(making do with abandoned buildings and untrained teachers) the opening of Fisk
in Nashville was greeted with tremendous excitement. Within the first four
months of the school's existence, Fisk enrolled nine hundred students. The world-famous Fisk Jubilee Singers started as a group of
students who performed to earn enough money to save the school at a critical
time of financial shortages. They toured to raise funds to build the first
building for the education of freedmen. They succeeded and funded construction
of the renowned Jubilee Hall, now a designated National
Historic Landmark.
·
Fisk
University is one of four Historically Black Colleges and Universities to earn
a tier one ranking on the list of Best National Liberal Arts Colleges in the
2011 edition of Best Colleges by U.S. News and World Reports. Of the
1,400 institutions ranked nationwide, only 246 institutions earned tier one
status.
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Fisk
is on Parade Magazine's "A List" for colleges
and universities who offer both a Bachelor's and Master's degree.
·
In
2010, the Washington Monthly ranked Fisk 29th among
America's Best Liberal Arts Colleges.
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According
to the Princeton Review, Fisk University is one of
America's 373 Best Colleges & Universities.
8 comments:
Woo thank you for uplifting the very institutions that got us through time and time again as african americans. I can not stand to see other blacks tear other blacks down by insinuating that they did not go to a REGULAR college or a REAL college. I do not see what about a college being majority white means for us. The knowledge where ever you go is what YOU make of it. I really salute you and I am so proud of you. Keep excelling baby. Galaxy's the limit..not just these earthly skies! You keep going!
By the way I live in North Carolina so I am here With great hbcus for example shaw and nccu.
right on. Thank you so much for the love. I am very much in love with Fisk. It was absolutely the best 4 years of mylife that i would not have been able to have or appreciate anywhere else otherwise. I am very much aware that black college are not for everyone but if we dont go to our schools, the others will. I do share the Black College experience with whomever will listen almost any time I have an opportunity.
thank you for reading.
peace and blessing.
Jackson State University, here, and I honestly couldn't see myself attending anything other than an HBCU, at the time. I wanted to attend Morgan State but it didn't pan out as expected.
I've learned something new today. I honestly thought Fisk University was located in New York and had no idea that it resided in Nashville, which is a beautiful city, by the way.
JSU - right on. I am involved with the Inter-Alumni Council here in Los Angeles which a council of alumni associations of most of our HBCUs which is linked to the UNCF. All of that to say that your alumni out here have a special love for their school. I find it to be true amongst most that attended our prestigous schools. I am fairly certain that I would not be the woman in the making that I am had I attended a non black institution. I originally wanted to go to Shaw and Howard. I got into both but Howard was slow on the financial aid and Shaw just didnt give me enough.
Nashville is beautiful and I would so move back.
Yes, me too @ move to Nashville. Very beautiful city.
I love JSU even more as I've gotten older and attended the "coming home" events. I often write for the sports section, til this day.
My daughter refuses to consider a historical black college. Lol. Kids....
Nice post.
I'm a graduate of yet another HBCU, Alabama State University, in Montgomery.
My parents went to 'Skegee.
REggie, I should have known you're a product of a HBCU. High Five to you and your parents for instilling the value of the Black College.
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