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Proposed HBCU pro league could shake up NCAA status quo

Change sometimes comes through “disruption.” Just such change through disruption could result from a new plan to change the NCAA amateur rules whereby everyone gets paid but the players. Andy Schwartz, Richard Volante and Bijan Bayne introduced in Vice Magazine last month a 22-page play-for-pay HBCU men’s basketball league outline. Their “Why HBCUs?” plan hopes […]

Posted inOpinion

HBCUs will need alternative income resources

Federal funding is flat  Although some folks are calling the president’s budget “skinny” because it lacks substance for Black education, there’s actually a silver lining for Historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) in the federal spending plan. But turning the potential into actual dollars will require a paradigm shift in the way historically Black colleges […]

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