Fifteen historically Black colleges and universities have united to pursue the nation’s highest research status in partnership with leading research universities.
The coalition hopes to upend discriminatory assumptions about what HBCUs can accomplish and reverse some historical trends that have held them back.
The newly announced Association of HBCU Research Institutions (AHRI) aims to help its members reach Research 1 status, a designation that gets more federal funding and makes it easier to recruit top faculty and students. The group will work with the country’s foremost research universities, with space within the Association of American Universities (AAU) headquarters in Washington, and support from Harvard University.
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