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FRESNO, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - Fresno City College hosted a Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU) Caravan connected Monday.
The lawsuit allowed assemblage assemblage students to larn much astir Historically Black Colleges and Universities.
It featured assorted activities, impermanent speakers, and a Divine 9 presumption by African American fraternities and sororities.
Elizabeth Fagbule is 1 of the hundreds of students who attended the event.
“I conscionable similar the culture. It's the music, the vibe. It's conscionable truly nice," she smiled. "We're conscionable looking around, seeing the options for the colleges that they person here, specifically HBCUs, and conscionable getting educated astir the options that we person arsenic Black students.”
Fresno City College Interim President Dr. Kim Armstrong explained the lawsuit is the effect of a concern betwixt The California Community College Chancellor’s Office and HBCUs crossed the country.
She said, “To person that transportation astatine HBCUs, which supply stellar and rigorous world programs, is simply a fantastic concern that California's provided for our students.”
Dr. Armstrong said African American students are underrepresented successful higher education.
She explained the lawsuit aims to assistance kids research the possibilities of transferring to an HBCU successful bid to make much opportunities for African American college students to further their education.
“HBCUs were founded close retired the Emancipation Proclamation to supply entree to a radical of radical who were denied education. Community colleges were founded for the aforesaid intent of allowing radical who were disenfranchised didn't have the wealth to spell to college. So, our missions are the aforesaid and we unneurotic are going to marque a quality successful educating a divers workforce," she said.
Officials said astir 20 HBCUs attended the event.
