With CSU’s no longer an option for many transferee’s, students got the opportunity to explore other transferring options at the Historically Black College University Fair (HBCUs).
Some of the colleges in attendance were Howard, Hampton, Tuskegee, Stillman, Tennessee State and North Carolina State University.
“The purpose of the HBCU fair is to provide awareness and to let all students, regardless of race, know about transfer options and what they might want to consider, especially with the decrease of acceptance of students at the Cal-state system,” Elaine Moore, academic counselor, said.
The first HBCUs date back as far as 1837. The predominantly black colleges and universities explore alternative paths to education offering students two-year, four-year, graduate and professional degrees.
Ulysses Cozart, board member of the national alumni association of North Carolina University, said the majority of people you see in leadership positions today have some kind of ties to one of our HBCUs.
“HBCUs are just another viable alternative to any other educational institution,” Cozart said.
Students seeking to transfer to an HBCU can take advantage of the Transfer Admission Guarantee program (TAG).
“It’s a process that allows students to transfer in a much faster and easier way with fewer units depending on the University they will be applying for,” Moore said. “It provides a pipeline for students for the 10 schools that we have agreements with and 3 of the 10 will accept the inter-segmental general education transfer curriculum” (IGETC).
“By attending an HBCU, I learned quite a bit about myself and my culture,” Brandon Williams, Tuskegee University alumni, said. “We have a saying over at Tuskegee, if you can survive Tuskegee, then you can survive anywhere in the world.”
Keith Cox, from the Southern University Alumni Chapter, encourages students to go online and take advantage of the technology. “I advise students to Twitter and use Facebook because Southern University is currently trending with those technologies,” Cox said.