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dollars at the nations ivy league schools from u.s. foundations in 2019. granted, those numbers predate the pandemic and the murder of george floyd. and president biden's budget for it has consistently called for hbcu funding. is the federal help enough to fill in the private gaps, chancellor? it is nowhere nearly enough, but what's happened over the past three years, and you have really articulated that it has been good for hbcus. we have seen the philanthropic community, much more engaged than ever before. after george floyd, and with significant philanthropic dollars that were pumped into hbcus. we talk about having historic situations where we've been under funded at the federal and state level.
in hbcus? do students feel safer it hbcus, is what i'm getting out? >> reverend al, i hope so. we work extremely hard to make sure that students feel safe. during the pandemic, we have seen an increase in anxiety, depression, and all of those kinds of things. we want to make sure that when students come to winston-salem state university, that we have services around them. our student success center is really the key hallmark of what we do. where students can go into that center, one stop shopping and get everything they need to be a successful student. and that is important to us, and we think we've done a good job in that arena. >> all right, elwood robinson. chancellor of winston-salem state university. thank you for being with us. up next, my final thoughts on this memorial day weekend. y ekweend. step one: feed them with miracle-gro shake 'n feed.
i would say to you that i worked in the police reform and i was much more optimistic than something could get done. i think that in the short term, there may not be much movement in congress for police reform. we should get they act done. i'm not optimistic at the moment, but i think in the long term it's possible and probable. president biden did release a statement saying the congress needs to look at it again. but again, a lot is going to depend on the 24 election. we have to, go thank you michael hardaway. thank you general horn for being with us. coming, up a new addition is working to provide public support for students at america's hbcus. i'll talk with the chancellor of one of the country's most well-known colleges about how it will work. that's next. that's next. ♪
we talk about those philanthropic dollars. annual cooper -- we look at the endowments of the ivy league schools, and if you put the top ten endowments of hbcu's, it doesn't come anywhere near one of the institutions such as harvard, nowhere near that. but we have seen increases here. we have been really, really lucky and fortunate over the past two years to increase our endowment significantly. and that has been helpful for us. now we can take those dollars and supplemental funding that we get from the state level, and the federal level, and create opportunities for our students to have internships, external ships, scholarships, all of these things are important. making sure that every student that comes into an hbcu's a wonderful education experience. you can't do that without having those philanthropic dollars, as well as having significant support.
both from the federal level, in our case, we are a state supported institution in north carolina. >> why are we talking about filling in gaps? black history is increasingly under attack. hbcu administrators are attempting to fight back on their campuses, trying to incorporate more black history into camps activities. trying to boost student alumni engagement. are you finding that your students, like my producers, and you are graduates, are they coming to winston salem state university with an incomplete of view of black history? coming out of america's high schools, and how does wsls you, a state school in a red state, push back against that? >> i think for us, we're thinking about how we can
the biden administration with a new initiative to help more black students cross the finish line. joining me now is -- chancellor of winston state university. thank you for joining us at the tail end of graduation season for dozens of black colleges nationwide. thousands of students have walked for their degrees already, some, out, imagine have been part of and rolling it hbcus reported in the last few years. and with that, the needs have grown. starting with the students themselves. to that end, a correlation of education, nonprofits led by thurgood marshall which represents nearly 50 black colleges. the recently announced the initiative called student success to boost graduation rates at hbcu's. looking specifically for the