No Cornrows or Dreds for Business Students @ Hampton


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Hampton University Business Students Must Look the Part

(AP) - Afros are OK but cornrows and flowing dreadlocks are not for business administration students at Hampton University.

The hair code is part of a strict academic and dress doctrine for combined business administration students at the private, historically black university. The program allows students to receive a bachelor's degree and a master's in business administration in five years.

In addition to the hair rules, students must maintain a B average after their sophomore year, heed a conservative dress code, complete two internships and meet regularly with business leaders.

"We don't have problems with Afros," business Dean Sid Credle said Friday. "A nicely tapered Afro -- that's fine."

Credle said the dress, grooming and behavior rules are intended to prepare students for the starched business world.

"When we look at the top 75 African Americans in corporate America, we don't see any of them with extreme hairdos," he said.

With the requirements, "they'll get very comfortable wearing a suit over a five-year period. When they get into corporate America, the transition will be easier," Credle said.

Aaron Wells, a junior from Fairfax, put away his earrings when he enrolled. He's got no complaints.

"It really gives us a very good model of what we should be doing in corporate America," said Wells, who hopes to pursue a career in finance. "We need to look the part as professionals."

Credle said only one or two students per year have not complied.

Jack L. Ezzell Jr., the president of Zel Technologies, a defense contractor in Hampton, said different businesses have different standards. Distinctive dress and hairstyles "might be acceptable in, say, advertising or some other medium that's a bit more informal and creative," he said.

"But clearly, if you were targeting banking or maybe the military or someplace that's a lot more rigid, you've got to be really cautious in doing that."

At his company, standards also vary for technicians and people in marketing.

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:tup: Some chirren don't have a clue - my co-workers went to a Mock (High School) Career Fair on Friday and a young man walked up to him w/a grill. :smh: After my co-worker talked to him, he said the young man thanked him & told him he didn't know that having a grill was not professional. :xeye:
 
Ok...that's different from a grown person.

I think Hampton should do as other universities do...allow natural expression and growth of its students. Eventually the student will come to a point where he decides the direction he wants to go in his career. At that point, as it was with most of us, he will have to make a decision on his appearance, attitude, and professionalism.
 
I don't have probelm with tis. HU is not trying to legislate to all the students at the university, just to a select group that is apart of one of its banner programs. And as it was said earlier, if you don't want to conform to this standard, then don't be a part of the BA/MBA program.......which is a very successful program I might ad.
 
But that is saying, you can only do this and only this.... I feel like college is a place for you to grow emotionally and creatively, now a forced dress code to a certain class, certain function or even a certain day(s) of the week is not out of the question, but no cornrows or dreads, that is just a slap in the face.... I have seen several leaders rock cornrows or dreads, crazy afros for that matter.... they molding them to be some uppity knegras that gone look down on common folk.... what does that say for the female students, they can't go to the hairdresser and get a nice set of braids, no updo's what.....
 
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Jag4life said:
Helping and forcing are two different things.
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There are other programs at other schools they could enroll in.
Suge said:
I don't have probelm with tis. HU is not trying to legislate to all the students at the university, just to a select group that is apart of one of its banner programs. And as it was said earlier, if you don't want to conform to this standard, then don't be a part of the BA/MBA program.......which is a very successful program I might ad.
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Suge said:
I don't have probelm with tis. HU is not trying to legislate to all the students at the university, just to a select group that is apart of one of its banner programs. And as it was said earlier, if you don't want to conform to this standard, then don't be a part of the BA/MBA program.......which is a very successful program I might ad.
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I totally agree with you. Everybody got to have rules and regulations. We have regulations and rules on anything we do. If they dont want to concur to these rules than there are other programs or schools they can be a part of.:bowdown:
 
udratherbme said:
... I feel like college is a place for you to grow emotionally and creatively, now a forced dress code to a certain class, certain function or even a certain day(s) of the week is not out of the question, but no cornrows or dreads, that is just a slap in the face.... I have seen several leaders rock cornrows or dreads, crazy afros for that matter.... they molding them to be some uppity knegras that gone look down on common folk.... what does that say for the female students, they can't go to the hairdresser and get a nice set of braids, no updo's what.....
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Is Hampton still a PRIVATE institution? If so, they can make their own rules and have a dress code for the ENTIRE population. Anyway, every place has a dress code. Check McDonald's or Wal-Mart. You don't need an MBA to know that will be a discipline in your life controlled by someone else...unless you are the owner and say different. 99% of those graduates will be subject to someone else's dress code. They might as well get used to it...be it jewelry, haircuts, or uniform.
 



dacontinent said:
Is Hampton still a PRIVATE institution? If so, they can make their own rules and have a dress code for the ENTIRE population. Anyway, every place has a dress code. Check McDonald's or Wal-Mart. You don't need an MBA to know that will be a discipline in your life controlled by someone else...unless you are the owner and say different. 99% of those graduates will be subject to someone else's dress code. They might as well get used to it...be it jewelry, haircuts, or uniform.
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This is all true, but don't guys agree that, and maybe it is just me, college is a place for you to find yourself, whether it be private, public, whateva.... you should not be force into a dress code in college, now like i said prior, certain days yes.... when i was in school i was in ROTC, they told us, all scholarship kids need to be professional @ all times, dress the part, no afro's and outrageous hairdo's or whatever, toward the end of the year, we were allowed to wear tapered afro's but all of the sgts ands the captns couldn't get used to it, so we would always have to hear some flack behind it.... times are changing, and i don't think dress makes a person its the person that makes the person and no school can mold the thug out of a thug, they have to do that on thier own
 
I agree with what HIU is doing. And like others have said, if students want to accept it, find another program and/or major.

Also, we need to move away from a young brother/sister wearing a suit with a nice haircut looked as being uppity.
 
I like the approach Hampton is taking. When these kids graduate and go into the business community, they will be ready. :tup:
 
Suge said:
I don't have probelm with tis. HU is not trying to legislate to all the students at the university, just to a select group that is apart of one of its banner programs. And as it was said earlier, if you don't want to conform to this standard, then don't be a part of the BA/MBA program.......which is a very successful program I might ad.
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Co-sign.

I think that we sometimes allow our young people to do things that might be detrimental to them professionally and socially...all in the name of "self expression."

Get your foot in the door first. After that, you will be able to express yourself as much as you wish.


This reminds me of another discussion we had on here some years ago, about the young lady who wasn't allowed to participate in an Alpha Kappa Alpha debutante ball because she wanted to wear dreads/cornrows.
 
Fortitude said:
:tup: Some chirren don't have a clue - my co-workers went to a Mock (High School) Career Fair on Friday and a young man walked up to him w/a grill. :smh: After my co-worker talked to him, he said the young man thanked him & told him he didn't know that having a grill was not professional. :xeye:
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And I believe him. Some have never been told, guided, or mentored. I'm glad your co-worker took the time to tell him. It's now up to him to make a decision as to if he would like to change his appearance to get the kind of job he desires.
I think the code is a very good idea. :tup:
 
I just think it is not allowing students to grow on their own. I agree with a DRESS code, but HAIR? This also includes women... what next...no twists for women? Only STRAIGHTENED, PERMED hair for women?
 
jag4life said:
I just think it is not allowing students to grow on their own. I agree with a DRESS code, but HAIR? This also includes women... what next...no twists for women? Only STRAIGHTENED, PERMED hair for women?
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I see your point.

Personally, I am about 85% in favor of this stipulation.
I mean, it will help the students become familiar with expected corporate protocol. :nod::tup:

I just don't necessarily agree that dreads should be put into the same realm as cornrolls.

Many people where them for cultural reasons and not for fashion.

I just know that I'd hate to be a caribbean student at Hampton who wants to be in this program...:look:
 
There are certain fields where your appearance can mean a multi-million dollar contract. Case in point, I interviewed this guy on yesterday, well qualified, yet he had corn rolls and issues we lobby for, the corn rolls would not work. Now my sister's boyfriend is an architect...he has dreads...in that field no problem....

It's a case of apples and oranges. I don't think a university should tell students how to dress, but should press upon them what is required to work in certain fields. My mother teaches an etiquete course to Grambling State's football a week before school starts. This class consist of etiquette while eating, which fork to use, etc...she also presses upon them to know their surroundings....
 
Well I guess this is where people are going to say "Oh here he goes again" , and your right..... I must admit that this IS FUGGED UP!!!!! I have been growing dread for about a year and three months and WON'T be cutting them off for NOBODY but myself. Hell, some of you may have heard me mention that after this school year I would be moving to Atlanta and looking for another job is something that I am going to have to prepare for. But I can tell you this I am not cutting my hair for nobody now the dress code thing does not matter because I like to dress up and down depending on the job .... But again somebody asking me to cut my DREADS to work for them is not an OPTION!!!!!! Some of you may say that is silly but this is my BELIEF and I am not changing it for anyone until I am ready..... I don't give a FUGG how much money you offer me to come and work for your company. If I came here looking for a job I might be leaving looking for one... I am going to be me no matter what folks think or say........ Hampton is wrong for this and I know alot of kids on the east coast are wearing this hair style..... I sure hate it but I would not be in that program....:confused: :confused: :confused: :confused: :confused: :confused: :tdown: :tdown: :tdown: :tdown: :tdown: :tdown: :angry: :angry: :angry: :angry: :angry: :angry:
 
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