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Leadership at Hbcus As a Chronicle of Higher Education Individual Subscriber, You Receive Premium, Unrestricted Access to the Entire Chronicle Focus Collection Focus THE CHRONICLE OF HIGHER EDUCATION Leadership at HBCUs As a Chronicle of Higher Education individual subscriber, you receive premium, unrestricted access to the entire Chronicle Focus collection. Curated by our newsroom, these booklets compile the most popular and relevant higher-education news to provide you with in-depth looks at topics affecting campuses today. The Chronicle Focus collection explores student alcohol abuse, racial tension on campuses, and other emerging trends that have a significant impact on higher education. ©2017 by The Chronicle of Higher Education Inc. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, forwarded (even for internal use), hosted online, distributed, or transmitted in any form or by any means, including photocopying, recording, or other electronic or mechanical methods, without the prior written permission of the publisher, except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical reviews and certain other noncommercial uses permitted by copyright law. For bulk orders or special requests, contact The Chronicle at [email protected] ©2017 THE CHRONICLE OF HIGHER EDUCATION INC. TABLE OF CONTENTS istorically black colleges and universities have a special mission to educate African Americans, and they face many challenges in doing so. Their students are disproportionately from low-income families and are often academ- ically underprepared. The colleges themselves have limited financial resources. Strong, inspired leadership is Hneeded to help the institutions thrive and, sometimes, even survive. The seven articles in this collection look at the issues that presi- dents of historically black institutions must contend with, includ- ing problems that are common to many colleges and others that are particular to HBCUs. Walter Kimbrough’s Higher Calling 4 Black colleges need someone to carry their banner. This pastor’s son is stepping up. Feud at Florida A&M Has Echoes of Governance Issues 12 at Other Black Colleges Experts wonder if governing boards at HBCUs may be particularly prone to overreach. Retired HBCU Presidents Start Search Firm 14 for Black-College Leaders The new firm hopes to help solve historically black colleges’ leadership woes. With Faculty Diversity on Everyone’s Radar, 17 HBCUs Worry About Losing Scholars College officials say they can make a convincing case for faculty to stay where they are. Why an HBCU Leader Felt Compelled to Speak Out 19 on Race and Policing John S. Wilson Jr. hopes his experience can inform a new generation of black men. Lessons From an HBCU’s Demise 21 The pressures that forced Saint Paul’s College to close are not unique. Black Colleges, Teetering on the Brink, Must Chart a New Path 22 State disinvestment and scandals have jeopardized the institutions’ future. Cover photograph of Walter M. Kimbrough Jr., president of Dillard U., by Alyssa Schukar for The Chronicle Cover photo by Eric Thayer, The New York Times 22 R EINING IN FR ATE R NITIES THE CHRONICLE OF HIGHER EDUCATION / SEPTEMBE R 2017 ©2017 THE CHRONICLE OF HIGHER EDUCATION INC. Walter Kimbrough’s Higher Calling By ADAM HARRIS n an overcast day in February, Wal- Mr. Kimbrough, the president of Dillard Univer- ter M. Kimbrough Jr. stepped off a sity, approached the visit with a sense of cautious plane in Washington, D.C., for one of optimism. Here was an administration that had the highest-profile meetings of his pro- said glancingly little about higher education during fessional career. the campaign, making HBCUs an early target for OThe Trump administration had invited the lead- support. It was the kind of overture that black-col- ers of more than 60 historically black colleges and lege leaders had hoped for under President Obama. universities, Mr. Kimbrough among them, to a But the opportunity came with plenty of risk. White House “listening session” with Betsy DeVos, The invitation was an unexpected move by an un- the newly appointed education secretary. It was an predictable administration. Only a small number unprecedented opportunity for HBCUs, long ig- of black people had supported Mr. Trump, who nored in the public conversation about higher edu- rose to political prominence by questioning the le- cation, to tell the nation why they mattered. gitimacy of the first black president and seemed to During a trip to Chicago, Walter Kimbrough meets with administrators at Urban Prep Academy, a charter school. He also spoke, one on one, to several students about their college plans. ALYSSA SCHUKAR FOR THE CHRONICLE appeal consistently to white nationalism during also needed a spotlight. Once they had a spotlight, his 2016 campaign. they needed someone who was willing to step into Still, black colleges rely on money from the fed- it. eral government, and right now they needed more Mr. Kimbrough, a 50-year-old pastor’s son who of it. The Dillard president was looking forward to goes by the Twitter handle Hip HopPrez, isn’t shy telling Ms. DeVos why. of the stage. He harnessed the frustration over the He never got to talk, and she hardly got to listen. DeVos visit, honed it into an argument for black Instead, in a last-minute surprise, the chancel- colleges, and took that argument to NPR, CNN, lors and presidents were pulled into the Oval Of- The New York Times. “I hate that people feel — fice. There, they posed for a photograph with Mr. that the students feel — a sense of betrayal,” he Trump. Almost immediately, the picture went viral told a Times reporter. on social media: Rows of HBCU leaders flanked The meeting “was a great opportunity to help a beaming president while a White House advis- the new secretary,” he said. But it was also a er, Kellyanne Conway, her feet on the Oval Office chance to press a case to the country. In an opin- couch, looked down at her cellphone. The optics ion column later that week, Mr. Kimbrough found were bad. The visit began to look like a bizarre fi- the silver lining of an otherwise trying trip: It had asco. On historically black campuses, students and professors were furious. You got played, many of them said. Few black college leaders were eager “ You don’t want to be to talk about the meeting in its imme- diate aftermath. Mr. Kimbrough was the young president an exception. In an essay posted online later that day, the Dillard president gently chid- who messes it up for all ed the White House. “There was very little listening to HBCU presidents to- the young presidents.” day,” he wrote. Then he laid out what he would have said if given the chance. He wrote about the Pell Grant pro- gram, and why preserving and expanding it was pulled black colleges out of the shadows. good not just for black colleges, but for all of high- “With this new platform, allow me to reintro- er education. duce you to HBCUs,” Mr. Kimbrough wrote. “We Overnight, Ms. DeVos created another stir. In an are uniquely American.” Education Department news release, she claimed that black colleges were pioneers of school choice wo institutions, perhaps more than any — a favorite talking point of the charter-school others, loom large in the black communi- champion. Black-college advocates quickly re- Tty: the church and black colleges. Both have butted the secretary’s assertion: After all, the in- served as beacons for hope: Churches built a com- stitutions were born to serve black Americans who munity for families that had been fractured by had been shut out of higher education. slavery. Black colleges offered the promise of up- Mr. Kimbrough was again among the few ward mobility to members of that community. HBCU presidents to speak out, and he kept his eye Walter Kimbrough Sr., a dynamic young pastor on the ball. Sure, he admitted, the remark rubbed with a knack for building strong black churches him the wrong way. But he was more troubled by out of the ruins of abandoned white ones, moved another line in the same press release, which sug- his family to Atlanta in 1972. The city was rapid- gested that boosting financial support to black col- ly changing. Catalyzed by desegregation efforts, leges wouldn’t be a top priority of the Trump ad- white people had fled in droves. Maynard Jackson, ministration. “This has to be a funding issue,” he the first black mayor of Atlanta, would be elected told The Chronicle. a year later. In the national conversation about higher educa- Mr. Kimbrough was assigned to Cascade Unit- tion, black colleges often languish in the shadows. ed Methodist Church, a struggling church with a Critics question not just their relevance but their membership of fewer than 100 in 1974. The pastor, necessity. The civil-rights battle has been fought a graduate of the historically black Morris Brown and won, the thinking goes; if black students can College, set out to rebuild, visiting 30 to 40 local attend any college, why do black colleges need to schools a year, doing community service, forming exist? relationships, making a name for Cascade Unit- Not enough people knew why they were still im- ed. Marjorie Kimbrough, his wife, had taught him portant. the value in working with children. “When parents They needed federal money desperately, but they can see that their children are happy, that’s where NOVEMBER 2017 / THE CHRONICLE OF HIGHER EDUCATION LEADERSHIP AT HISTORICALLY BLACK COLLEGES 5 they want to be,” the elder Mr. Kimbrough said. into dire straits. There were the financial issues: His son, Walter Jr., was by his side, watching unpaid bills and an investigation into the poten- and learning. At 11 years old, Walter Jr. was deliv- tial improper distribution of federal financial-aid ering speeches during Sunday services.
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