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HBCUs must adapt to teach the 21st century student
Last year, North Carolina Agricultural and Technical opened The STEM Early College.
According to the school’s web page, “Students take honors and Advanced Placement courses in ninth and 10th grades. Juniors and seniors will take college courses and focus on one of three STEM pathways: biomedical sciences, renewable energy and engineering. Students will graduate with a high school diploma and two years of college credit from North Carolina Agricultural and Technical.”
Harvey said that some of their students have already been recognized in the region for achievements in research projects.
Harvey also stressed the need for Black schools to be more proactive in recruiting top-flight students.
“We have to be much more thoughtful and much more intentional,” said Harvey. “We are providing a value proposition to those students and there parents that your son or daughter is going to get something special here that he can’t get at Duke or the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill or Wake Forest.”
Harvey continued: “The flipside of that is that we know that we’re doing more with less. I want to do more with more.”
Harvey encouraged HBCU alumni think globally and to act locally to find ways to give a percentage of their earnings to their alma-maters similar to tithing at church.
