The Chronic Underfunding of HBCUs

The HBCUs came first, starting with <a href="https://cheyney.edu/who-we-are/the-first-hbcu/" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">Cheney University</a> in Pennsylvania in 1837. Then came The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_the_District_of_Columbia" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">University of the District of Columbia</a> in 1851, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lincoln_University_(Pennsylvania)" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">Lincoln University -Pennsylvania</a> in 1854, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilberforce_University" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">Wilberforce University</a> in 1856, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LeMoyne%E2%80%93Owen_College" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">Lemoyne-Owen </a>in 1862, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virginia_Union_University" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">Virginia Union</a> in 1864, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bowie_State_University" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">Bowie State</a>,<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clark_Atlanta_University" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank"> Atlanta University (now Clark-Atlanta University</a>, or <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shaw_University" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">Shaw University</a> in 1865 after the Civil War ended, and several Black colleges in 1866, including<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fisk_University" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank"> Fisk University</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lincoln_University_(Missouri)" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">Lincoln University of Missouri</a>, and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rust_College" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">Rust College</a>. Most of them had different names, like The African Institute, Miner College, Fisk Free Colored School, The Ashmun Institute, and more, before becoming what they are today. <a href="https://medium.com/afrosapiophile/the-chronic-underfunding-of-hbcus-240c3c1cc672">Website</a>