ghostwriter
Well-Known Member
PV's saving grace is middle to upper-middle-class blacks as the "Texas" school of choice if they go HBCU - especially in the Houston area - the engineering and nursing options are a huge asset - TSU does better recruiting from other cities outside Houston as its easy to sell houston and they can get more kids back if they have to leave elsewhere and come back
both schools have lost the inner city schools in Houston and Dallas as the base to get a consistent flow of African-american students due to HISD and DISD becoming majority hispanic- your talking about 30-40 schools easily gone so now your recruiting in suburban areas and fighting PWCs for that african American student who fits your profile and they have more options
and then the Lousiana/Mississippi schools have waived out of state fees and are trying to get from that same pot - once you get past San Antonio you have no AA base
UH got smart in the 80s and created UH Downtown to get that on the fence student and slowly tap into the base TSU used to get - they started putting more resources into UH Downtown especially once hispanics caught on to it and the rest is history as its a safety net school - UH has played very dirty by creating "commuter campuses" which has devalued traditional college life and their the first to complain when they can't get kids with school spirit
North texas in Dallas is a hispanic serving institution also - they're slowly tapping into South Dallas when an HBCU should've had that market publicly
just like Atlanta - the state was real smart in not putting an HBCU in the city or a few miles close knowing what it would've done
both schools have lost the inner city schools in Houston and Dallas as the base to get a consistent flow of African-american students due to HISD and DISD becoming majority hispanic- your talking about 30-40 schools easily gone so now your recruiting in suburban areas and fighting PWCs for that african American student who fits your profile and they have more options
and then the Lousiana/Mississippi schools have waived out of state fees and are trying to get from that same pot - once you get past San Antonio you have no AA base
UH got smart in the 80s and created UH Downtown to get that on the fence student and slowly tap into the base TSU used to get - they started putting more resources into UH Downtown especially once hispanics caught on to it and the rest is history as its a safety net school - UH has played very dirty by creating "commuter campuses" which has devalued traditional college life and their the first to complain when they can't get kids with school spirit
North texas in Dallas is a hispanic serving institution also - they're slowly tapping into South Dallas when an HBCU should've had that market publicly
just like Atlanta - the state was real smart in not putting an HBCU in the city or a few miles close knowing what it would've done