[ ANSWERING A CALL ] Sidney Ribeau President, Howard University
M
y family and I came to Howard because it was an answer to a call,” Dr. Ribeau said in his inaugu- ral address. “It was not for a job, a title or to be president. I was a president at a wonderful univer- sity for 13 years where we achieved a great deal. . . . It was a call that I first heard from a former president of Morehouse College, Benjamin Mays. A call of a legendary leader who said ignorance, fear and discrimination in all of its forms can be chal- lenged by an HBCU. . . . “Today, students have a choice to attend any college and university in this country, and in record numbers, they are choos- ing Howard University,” Dr. Ribeau said, but in his view, “Never have historically black colleges and universities—indeed this historically black university—been more critical or more rel-
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evant.” Among other accomplishments, Dr. Ribeau reported that • Howard produces more African American doctorates than any college or university in the United States, according to the National Opinion Research Center. • The National Science Foundation found that Howard has produced the highest number of African-American bachelor’s degree graduates who went on to earn doctoral degrees in engi- neering and science. • In the year of Dr. Ribeau’s inauguration, Howard pro- duced three Fulbright Scholars and welcomed a junior-college transfer who won $30,000 in scholarships.
That list could go on and on, not only for Howard Univer-
sity, but for many other historically black colleges and universi- ties. http://
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