Has Affirmative Action caused HBCUs to crumble?

No. Most blacks secretly love segregation.

ETA: They also love equal rights, which they should. They like both even more though.

AA isn't as prevalent as you think. I know I didn't get into Alabama because of AA.

But yes, The state schools are hurting the HBCUs tremendously.

Yeah, Morris Brown is in the same boat... only worse.

That's probably who I was thinking of.

That would be the one. I know that I was looking at Clarke for my masters and they were asking me to come teach a few classes in lieu of being a student.

Jeez.

I think they're still in decent shape when compared to Morris Brown but that's pretty bad.

Like I said though, the only legit well respected HBCU's today are Howard, Morehouse, and Spelman.

I don't think those three will go anywhere anytime soon because they have strong, fairly wealthy alumni bases and those alumni send their children to them as well.

I guess you could throw FAMU in? But they don't have the strengths that the other three do.

I don't know what the all of the underlying causes are for HBCU's declining. I do know that in this year's state budget, funding for Alabama State University dropped from 40 to 30 million, and they were the only school to see such a significant (25%!) cut in the state.

My personal speculation (as a complete nonexpert) is because ASU alums aren't well represented in the Alabama state legislature, so when there's cuts that need to be made in spending, the hatchet swings disproportionately harder on them.

I received a full-ride offer from Howard (as a black male) but opted for Alabama instead. One of my main concerns was that HBCU's are often losing and gaining and then relosing their accreditation. Last I heard, the engineering programs at Alabama's HBCU's aren't ABET accredited. Honestly, considering their comparative lack of resources, the only legitimate reason I can see for attending an HBCU is because you want to experience what life not as a minority is like, which is understandable. I was the single black kid in all of my honors and AP classes and at times that was annoying.

It just seems like there is a brain drain going on. Those top students who use to got to HBCUs now typically go somewhere else.

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I do know that in this year's state budget, funding for Alabama State University dropped from 40 to 30 million, and they were the only school to see such a significant (25%!) cut in the state.

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This could be in part because of an audit that alleged some serious problems with the university's management of funds in 2013.

I do think it's a shame that some of these schools are failing. I hope that they can be either incorporated into larger schools in the area or preserved somehow (for instance Allen and Benedict here in Columbia are basically on the same campus). There is some great history at a lot of them.