Historically Black Colleges and Universities Program
More than 100 Historically Black Colleges and Universities exist in the United States, founded primarily for the education of African-Americans. Some 6 percent — or 215,000 — of the country’s African-American higher education students are enrolled at HBCUs. Many of these institutions have religious affiliations.
The Human Rights Campaign Foundation’s Historically Black Colleges and Universities Program educates and organizes students, faculty and administrators at HBCU campuses on gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender issues specific to each institution’s needs. It opens campus-wide debate on LGBT issues, often for the first time. And it trains students to build viable student-led LGBT or GLBT-friendly organizations on campus.