What’s going on in the AUC, why are students protesting and what role do you play?
Wonderful current students in the AUC are advocating for demands for their livelihoods and basic necessities to be met on their campuses. The great thing about how they have been organizing is they have been centering actual students’ concerns and collecting data and turning that into probable demands. That goes way longer in terms of plausibly saying we need to hold you accountable because these students are paying to attend these institutions. While they are pouring into the institution, the institution has a responsibility to pour into them as well.
Why is it so important to hold our institutions accountable?
If current students and alumni don’t, who will? Our HBCUs were created for us, they need to be sustained for us. Holding these institutions accountable is keeping them open. If people don’t see the value in these institutions, they’re not going to attend them, our history will decline, schools will close and, and we don’t want that. We want the best for ourselves, our institutions, and for what they offer us and the world.
