Beginning To Right The Financial Wrongs Of Funding HBCUs
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English - May 14, 2021 10:00 - 14 minutes - 20.5 MB - ★★★★★ - 52 ratingsDaily News News Health & Fitness Medicine covid-19 coronavirus north carolina race racism white supremacy confederate confederacy racial justice south Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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For decades, states and the federal government have funded Historically Black Colleges and Universities at rates much lower than historically white schools. Those funders – public and private – are just beginning to see the systemic racism built into how we pay for colleges, and small steps are being taken to right past wrongs. Host Dave DeWitt speaks with Liz Schlemmer, WUNC's education reporter, about that history, and how one school – North Carolina A&T State University – is setting fundraising records, and how administrators and advocates hope to build on recent successes.