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It is hard to fully appreciate a situation that you have never experienced on a personal level. Each of us sees the world around us from the unique vantage point of our own cave. Sometimes we venture outside our cave to explore but depending upon the circumstances, we may not get a complete picture of what we find. On the other hand, we may discover things in our explorations that may shock and cause pain and disillusionment in the process. Regrettably, this was my experience at Winston-Salem State. I was mortified by what I discovered. Frankly, I had been in another cave for most of my professional career and could not have imagined in my wildest dreams what was awaiting me.
There can be no progress without struggle.
—Frederick Douglass
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Notes
Max Allen Collins, Saving Private Ryan (A novel based on the screenplay by Richard Rodat) (New York: Signal Books, 1998).
In an interesting study of private HBCUs, economists agree that most are salvageable. See Henry Drewy and Humphrey Doer, Stand and Prosper (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2001).
Malcolm Gladwell, The Tipping Point (Boston, MA: Little, Brown and Company, 2000), p. 9.
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Schexnider, A.J. (2013). Discovery. In: Saving Black Colleges. Philanthropy and Education. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137323460_1
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