IHRAAM Alternative Report Promotes Positive Engagement with the UN to help the US Address the Plight of HBCUs IHRAAM and cosponsors have officially submitted an Alternative Report to the United Nations Human Rights Council on the crisis situation facing HBCUs. The report succinctly outlines the difficulties faced by these historic institutions, the primary policy and judicial causes, and cites a judicial best practice instance, then presents Recommendations with a view to assisting the US government in ensuring the preservation and sustainability of this pillar of African American education. Here is the Executive Summary: HBCUs represent the historic United States institutionalization of African American higher education. While during the Civil Rights period, the United States did remove de jure segregation and replace it with equality before the law, it nonetheless continued to recognize and fund HBCUs as an African American entitlement, in keeping with the desires of the African American people and their organizations. This is also in keeping with African Americans’ international minority right to institutions, which the Report elaborates. HBCUs have played a significant role in the training of African American professional sectors and in the economic viability of African American communities where they are situated. However, recent US government policies undertaken without consultation with African American / HBCU leadership have disproportionately impacted the survival of these institutions. Supreme Court decisions have also played a negative role. While addressing this, the IHRAAM Report goes on to positively cite a University of Maryland court decision as an instance of best practice, leading the way to a more successful means of promoting the parity of Historically Black Colleges with Traditionally White Institutions without compromising the identity of the former. The Report suggests new funding protocols with a view to improving HBCUs’ economic sustainability and preventing failures, and proposes institutional innovations promoting greater African American engagement and empowerment in their governing processes. ihraam.org/US_UPR.html
Posted on: Thu, 16 Oct 2014 12:29:00 +0000
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