Xavier University, an HBCU, Makes History

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of pharmacy, the oldest in Louisiana, which enrolled 600 students and 240 in graduate school. Their medical graduate programs consist of physician assistants and master’s degrees in public health programs, speech pathology, pharmaceutical studies, and health analytics.</p><p id="bde0"><b>Xavier</b> is the only U.S. medical college at a historically Black school that is considering changing its narrative from being the only such medical program of an HBCU to including more at other HBCUs’ campuses.</p><p id="7e13">Xavier’s medical school is the third in Louisiana and fifth statewide, inclusive of Louisiana State University, University of Queensland School of MedicineOchsner Clinical School, Tulane University, and the University of Louisiana.</p><p id="2ce0"><b>Xavier</b> University adhering to its founder’s legacy of providing opportunities to people of color, in 1961, unbeknownst to the press, sheltered a group of Freedom Riders in a dormitory on campus who arrived in New Orleans by plane due to Alabama bus drivers’ refusal to take them to Montgomery, Alabama. In the face of firebombings and other attacks against other Freedom Riders, Xavier provided lodging as the local hotel refused them out of fear of retaliatory violence.</p><p id="1b72">Xavier has a legacy of inclusion, by not discriminating but embracing all ethnicities based on the students’ qualifications. In the fall of 2020, Xavier’s population was approximately 75.1 % Blacks, 12% of these are Catholics.</p><p id="0ecb">Though Xavier is the nation’s only historically Black and Catholic university, its doors have always been open to qualified students of any race or creed. It was the first Catholic college to educate men and women with most of its students coming from Louisiana and non-local enrollment is on the increase with students arriving from at least 40 other states and sixteen foreign countries.</p><p id="bfb7">Xavier’s full-time faculty of 236, predominately 75% Black, is both religious and lay with diverse ethnic, and racial origins as 95 percent have terminal degrees. Talking about giving back, forty-four faculty members serve as endowed chairs or professors who provide financial support for their research and teaching.</p><p id="6fe9">In conclusion, all Xavier students’ life is en

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riched by the social and cultural setting, campus activities designed to enhance their personal growth, interpersonal skills, and leadership in community service, the environment, cultural concerns, and social justice. At HBCUs, it does take a village to make a dream work as they lead by example. Xavier is newsworthy.</p><p id="d526">For additional reads:</p><div id="d63c" class="link-block"> <a href="https://readmedium.com/black-colleges-and-universities-are-invisibile-to-some-black-students-be91ffd419c"> <div> <div> <h2>Black Colleges and Universities are Invisibile to Some Black Students</h2> <div><h3>How HBCUs offer education and inclusion for all students.</h3></div> <div><p>medium.com</p></div> </div> <div> <div style="background-image: url(https://miro.readmedium.com/v2/resize:fit:320/0*oinvQGTfiM-qxp-o)"></div> </div> </div> </a> </div><div id="c701" class="link-block"> <a href="https://readmedium.com/historical-black-colleges-gets-bomb-threats-1f171b0f9154"> <div> <div> <h2>Historical Black Colleges Get Bomb Threats</h2> <div><h3>Why does the color of skin enrage racist people, is inferiority their issue?</h3></div> <div><p>medium.com</p></div> </div> <div> <div style="background-image: url(https://miro.readmedium.com/v2/resize:fit:320/0*ujQNLKFIXM4qfLZ8)"></div> </div> </div> </a> </div><div id="af69" class="link-block"> <a href="https://readmedium.com/fanny-jackson-coppin-a-hidden-figure-76b88618f1c8"> <div> <div> <h2>Fanny Jackson Coppin, a Hidden Figure</h2> <div><h3>How the chains of slavery could not stop an educator’s plight.</h3></div> <div><p>medium.com</p></div> </div> <div> <div style="background-image: url(https://miro.readmedium.com/v2/resize:fit:320/0*60EnKjuo20GzqIC4.jpg)"></div> </div> </div> </a> </div></article></body>

Xavier University, an HBCU, Makes History

How one HBCU is setting the stage for other HBCUs to follow.

This is the type of news to be splattered on the news and campuses throughout the world. Bad news increase ratings on network channels and social media but it is long overdue for some good news for future generations giving all hope for a better tomorrow.

A few months ago, HBCUs were targets of hate crimes where someone was sending out messages with plans to cause havoc or destruction on many of the HBCUs’ campuses. The best part of this threat was that the HBCUs took precautions but did not allow it to deter their future efforts and attendance.

Today is a historical day as one of the historically Black universities plans to open a medical school and a graduate school of health sciences at Xavier University of Louisiana. Just what the country need is more diversity in medicine with doctors who identify with their patients.

Xavier University is a private historically only Black Catholic university (HBCU) in New Orleans, Louisiana. It was founded in 1925 by a saint, Katharine Drexel, and hails as having graduated more Black students and students of color in the medical field even up to the doctorate level than any other higher education institution in the country.

As of 2018, Xavier had an endowment of approximately $171 million, the fourth-highest among Louisiana’s colleges and universities per Wikipedia. Katharine Drexel the daughter of a wealthy banker-financier founded and staffed many educational institutions and the Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament, a religious order, as she had a passion for Native Americans and African Americans being educated.

Xavier’s current enrollment is approximately 3,600 with more than 2,700 undergraduates. Also notable is Xavier’s college of pharmacy, the oldest in Louisiana, which enrolled 600 students and 240 in graduate school. Their medical graduate programs consist of physician assistants and master’s degrees in public health programs, speech pathology, pharmaceutical studies, and health analytics.

Xavier is the only U.S. medical college at a historically Black school that is considering changing its narrative from being the only such medical program of an HBCU to including more at other HBCUs’ campuses.

Xavier’s medical school is the third in Louisiana and fifth statewide, inclusive of Louisiana State University, University of Queensland School of MedicineOchsner Clinical School, Tulane University, and the University of Louisiana.

Xavier University adhering to its founder’s legacy of providing opportunities to people of color, in 1961, unbeknownst to the press, sheltered a group of Freedom Riders in a dormitory on campus who arrived in New Orleans by plane due to Alabama bus drivers’ refusal to take them to Montgomery, Alabama. In the face of firebombings and other attacks against other Freedom Riders, Xavier provided lodging as the local hotel refused them out of fear of retaliatory violence.

Xavier has a legacy of inclusion, by not discriminating but embracing all ethnicities based on the students’ qualifications. In the fall of 2020, Xavier’s population was approximately 75.1 % Blacks, 12% of these are Catholics.

Though Xavier is the nation’s only historically Black and Catholic university, its doors have always been open to qualified students of any race or creed. It was the first Catholic college to educate men and women with most of its students coming from Louisiana and non-local enrollment is on the increase with students arriving from at least 40 other states and sixteen foreign countries.

Xavier’s full-time faculty of 236, predominately 75% Black, is both religious and lay with diverse ethnic, and racial origins as 95 percent have terminal degrees. Talking about giving back, forty-four faculty members serve as endowed chairs or professors who provide financial support for their research and teaching.

In conclusion, all Xavier students’ life is enriched by the social and cultural setting, campus activities designed to enhance their personal growth, interpersonal skills, and leadership in community service, the environment, cultural concerns, and social justice. At HBCUs, it does take a village to make a dream work as they lead by example. Xavier is newsworthy.

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