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HBCU Gifts Make Headlines, But Will More Funding Follow?
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Dear Members of the Xavier Community,
Xavier University of Louisiana has a long history of welcoming students to its family to advance the work of our foundress, Saint Katharine Drexel, and to advance the work of creating the more just and humane society that every person deserves.
The mission set forth nearly 100 years ago is as relevant today as ever. And, every person that comes through Xavier’s door is an essential part of that mission, for we are a community dedicated to academic excellence and much, much more.
At Xavier, we live the mission by offering co-curricular programming, serving the community around us, and continue fulfilling the legacy of generation after generation of Xavierites to be leading voices for change and justice. The growth and development experienced by our students throughout their time at Xavier is the result of a communal support system designed to provide the resources they need to realize their personal goals, and where we are also enriched by
Southern University at New Orleans
Southern University at Shreveport
According to the UNCF report titled
HBCUs Make America Strong: The Positive Economic Impact of Historically Black Colleges and Universities, HBCUs have generated $923 million in total economic impact across the U.S. This includes not only direct spending by faculty, employees, various academic and sports programs, and students, but also the further effects of that spending. UNCF found that every dollar in initial spending generated an additional $1.39 in successive spending. The ripple effect continues to spread, helping to generate additional money for the communities and regions of the state where these universities reside.
The St Katharine Drexel Prep marching band at Mardi Gras in New Orleans
Credit: roberto galan / Alamy
In 1922, in Beaumont, Texas, the Ku Klux Klan posted a notice outside the church and new school built by Katharine Drexel. “We will not stand by while white priests consort with n - wenches in the faces of our families. Suppress it in one week or flogging and tar and feathers will follow.” Days later, a tornado smashed the buildings used as Klan headquarters. The Klan never threatened the church in Beaumont again.
I don’t think this incident contributed to Katharine Drexel’s canonisation in 2000. The congregation she founded in 1891 had been called the Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament for Indians and Colored People. Today, it is called the Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament, and still works with what it now calls black and Native American people.
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