Students are applying to Historically Black Colleges and Universities in record numbers. During the past three years, applications to Spelman College, a private women’s liberal arts college in Atlanta, have gone from 5,000 in 2014 to 9,000 for the current application cycle, a historic high, Spelman College President Mary Schmidt Campbell said recently.
Like Spelman, many HBCUs across the country are experiencing a surge in enrollment. Dr. Walter M. Kimbrough, president of Dillard University, wrote an op-ed in the Washington Post in September 2016 that shared the recent at influx many schools: “Freshman enrollment is up 49 percent at Shaw University, 39 percent at South Carolina State, 32 percent at Tuskegee University, 30 percent at Virginia State University, 22 percent at
