Marybeth Gassman

Marybeth Gasman is a professor of higher education in the Graduate School of Education at the University of Pennsylvania. She also serves as the Director of the Penn Center for Minority Serving Institutions. Marybeth is an expert on Historically Black Colleges and Universities, Black leadership, fundraising and philanthropy in communities of color and Minority Serving Institutions. She is the author of 21 books in these subject areas and over 300 articles.

Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church, Charleston, SC

The Importance of Historically Black Institutions and the People that Attack Them

by Felecia Commodore & Marybeth Gasman A little over a week ago, many of us watched with horror as the story in Charleston, South Carolina at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church unfurled. For some of us, it was a horror we couldn’t fathom happening in 2015. It had to be a bad dream that was […]

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All smiles in Professor Sonya Hester's class at Southern University at Shreveport, Louisiana.

The Unique Role of the HBCU Community College

President Obama recently announced his initiative to make attending community college essentially free. This announcement was met with mixed response from the HBCU community. A number of HBCU advocates expressed deep concern as to whether this would prove detrimental to HBCU enrollments. However, in these conversations one subject that was not prevalent were the HBCUs

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Multi-Ethnic Group of People Collaborating on Concepts.

A Collaborating Black College is a Successful Black College

Many HBCUs are doing amazing work as individual institutions. These particular campuses have great initiatives, programming, and services that are exemplary of institutional missions in action. This being the case, there are opportunities for HBCUs to join forces with each other and other Minority Serving Institutions (MSIs) to increase the reach and impact of their

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Dr. Beverly Daniel Tatum, President, Spelman College

Forward Thinking HBCU Presidents: Beverly Daniel Tatum

Over the last couple of weeks, the higher education community has been discussing, reflecting, and processing the recent announcement of Spelman College President Beverly Daniel Tatum’s pending retirement. President Tatum gained the respect of her colleagues, her students, and those outside of the world of higher education during her tenure as president of Spelman. She

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