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Huston-Tillotson and Paul Quinn don’t pull in donations like Howard and Spelman, but that doesn’t stop them from investing in their students
At Huston-Tillotson University, a small HBCU in Austin, Texas, Zahria Touchstone found a place where she could blossom. Touchstone, 20, was student body president at her high school in Waco, Texas, where she said she was one of the few Black students in her senior class. She says classmates and teachers saw her assertiveness as “coming off too strong,” and she wasn’t necessarily encouraged to excel. But, pushed by her father to find universities to attend, Touchstone stumbled across Huston-Tillotson.
She toured the school five times and quickly felt a sense of belonging.
“It wasn’t, ‘Oh, here’s what we can…
The NCAA’s new compensation rule could give female athletes of color a boost — but will it?
The conversation regarding the difference between the millions of dollars that college athletes make for their universities versus their payment (or lack thereof) for those services has been a hot topic for decades. Last year, the college sports industry made a whopping $14 billion and yet the star athletes responsible for a large chunk of that money saw none of it. …
