Advocates of Historically Black Colleges and Universities are facing unique challenges through COVID-19.
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And baldwin county is now at 296.
Numbers will be updated again tomorrow morning at 9.
Advocates of historically black colleges and universities are facing unique challenges due to covid-19.
41 nbc s rashaad vann has more on the outlook of the institutions including fort valley state university.
Swindell: it s impacting minority institutions a bit harder.
Jonathan swindell, ceo of hbcu hub says after refunding students tuition and fees, many hbcus are uncertain of what s projected in the fall semester.
Swindell: the presidents and the administrators are well- equipped to get over this hurdle, that s not saying that it s not going to be difficult, that s not saying it may not be some sleepless nights.
The transition to online learning has brought additional costs to continue academic courses.
Alexander lowe, fort valley state university s sga president explained how the changes affect students.
Lowe: being able to go to online instruction when you originally had in-person instruction which the person setting is the, the, the, larger aspect of what makes it so impactful to the students.
Many hbcu s have few endowments to continue the support of the institutions, lowe says with that factor, it takes a lot of creativity to keep students enrolled.
Lowe: the larger aspect of how hbcus are handling it, it s a little bit different of a process because you can t exactly just reach into the support fund.
It causes a huge sense of as the pandemic continues, the h-b-c-u
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