I need to thank you for this article. Having worked in Higher Education for many years I know many colleges and universities struggle with their first-time-full-time freshman 6 year graduation rates, the number on which this is based. When I read that article yesterday my head nearly exploded. It is definitely not an…

The AJC was extremely misleading and is yet another example of how HBCUs are continuously scrutinized and seen as undesirable. When I saw the 20% in the article, I knew that so many things had been omitted. I am an HBCU alum, and friends with thousands of other alums from other HBCUs nationwide. We all graduated.

In fact, if the percentage of HBCUs with low graduationrates is the same as the percentage of all institutions, that would actually imply that HBCUs are doing better than PWIs with what they have - since HBCUs overall are more poorly funded and admit students who on average are less likely to graduate from college…

I’m not on the Twitter (I’m of the belief that nothing good can come from social media), but I can give you some background here.

Oh look, someone who understands statistical interpretation and context! Signed, a quantitative psychologist who is also an HBCU grad

But the whole article is about another article implying that HBCUs have statistically aberrant graduation rates, when in fact, 20% of HBCUs have under 20% graduation rates and 20% of all universities have under 20% graduation rates.

Always find these studies about black graduation rates, be they at HBCU’s or PWI’s, to be slanted and inaccurate anyway. In the case of HBCU’s the graduation rate is high and also in the case of PWI’s. The reason the rate was somewhat lower at a PWI was that they included Division I athletes in the study that left…

Thank you, Mr. Toldson.

Thought I smelled BS. Thank you for the analysis.

“Black people need black people who believe in black people enough not to believe every bad thing they hear about black people.”

Thanks for the clarification! Always great to know when you’re being fed a line of BS (bad stats).