BBT #14 Snippet | The Alumni Giving Crisis

Black Box Theory Podcast · Apr 30, 2026 · 4m · transcript

There is a culture-of-giving problem in Black higher education that almost nobody wants to name out loud. Alumni giving rates at HBCUs sit dramatically below their PWI counterparts, endowments stay outmatched by orders of magnitude, and the financial aid controversies that follow are not random — they are the downstream consequence of a funding model that has been broken for decades. This conversation walks through why giving back is not optional, how resource allocation shapes who gets access, and what the responsibility actually looks like for graduates who benefited from institutions they…