Now that Albany State has become one of the largest HBCUs in the country overnight...


The key is to see if they can maintain that enrollment size. Also it comes with adjustments. They will need a few years to see if they can adjust from being a small school to the new large size. We all know HBCU administrations take time for anything new. If I'm not mistaken the school they merged with was a majority white school. Don't get me wrong being a Georgia raised resident I'm happy for them. I have always thought Georgia has done a disservice to public HBCU's. The reason I left the state to attend school was for this reason alone. Georgia South Western is in that area. Many of the students with a mindset that a is not on their level will leave.
 



Athletically speaking, they are merging with a 2-year college, so the issue of whether those students will be automatically granted admission into 4-year programs... and will they begin paying Albany state tuition and fees (athletics fees mainly) or will they be allowed to continue paying the lower fees/tuition for the next couple of years?
 
I think many of the non-black students at the school Albany State merged with will want to transfer now that they don't want to be a part of an HBCU.
 
Yes, I really don't see them maintaining that enrollment, if people kept up with HBCU news this was being talked about for several years and it finally happen... but Darton did not want nothing to do with this merger at all.. so i agree with the statement above, the students will be transferring soon..and that enrollment will start to drop, which in hindsight the powers at BE knew exactly what they were doing "helping out" Albany
 
I know nothing about the political climate in Georgia, but from what I've read, this is not the first time Georgia has done this, nor is it expected to be the last. Georgia State was merged with some other school in the area. How has that worked?
 
jag4life said:
Athletically speaking, they are merging with a 2-year college, so the issue of whether those students will be automatically granted admission into 4-year programs... and will they begin paying Albany state tuition and fees (athletics fees mainly) or will they be allowed to continue paying the lower fees/tuition for the next couple of years?
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Yeah, I saw that. A two year school with an enrollment of 6000 students. Is it a commuter campus?
 
This is the makeup of the student body... and most of those black students were not transferring to Albany State after the first two years, in the first place .. I can see maybe a portion do to financial issues staying but not 40%..... and those 40ish% of whites is not transferring to ASU count on it
 

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Kenn Rashad said:
I know nothing about the political climate in Georgia, but from what I've read, this is not the first time Georgia has done this, nor is it expected to be the last. Georgia State was merged with some other school in the area. How has that worked?
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Georgia St was a commuter school before the 1996 Olympics with limited housing and buildings. They benefitted greatly from the Oylimpics. The whites in Georgia didn't want the AUC to benefit like GT so they turned to the only other white show in town which was Ga St.
 
CEE DOG said:
Georgia St was a commuter school before the 1996 Olympics with limited housing and buildings. They benefitted greatly from the Oylimpics. The whites in Georgia didn't want the AUC to benefit like GT so they turned to the only other white show in town which was Ga St.
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Exactly. ...
 
CEE DOG said:
Georgia St was a commuter school before the 1996 Olympics with limited housing and buildings. They benefitted greatly from the Oylimpics. The whites in Georgia didn't want the AUC to benefit like GT so they turned to the only other white show in town which was Ga St.
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So that explains how they came out of nowhere (from an athletic perspective) to make the move to D-1, huh?
 
Kenn Rashad said:
So that explains how they came out of nowhere (from an athletic perspective) to make the move to D-1, huh?
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Yes. They took off and now all the students from Metro Atlanta who can't get in UGA or GT and don't wanna leave home attend GA St. With no public HBCU in Atlanta this where these kids attend.
 
J C said:
How do you explain the growth at Kennesaw State?
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J C said:
How do you explain the growth at Kennesaw State?
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You have to understand the growth of Atlanta. The Cobb county which Kennesaw is part of is one the fastest growing areas in Metro Atlanta. Kennesaw also merged with Southern Polytechnic school that was a division of GA Tech at one time. It was another school whites in North GA attended to stop from coming into Atlanta. I can go all day of y'all wanna. I was born and raised in Atlanta when MLK was Hunter St. Lol when SW DeKalb was all white. When the KKK would ralley in Cobb and Stone mountain at night. Maynard Jackson, Andrew Young, John Lewis, Marvington Arrington are my pops boys. I learned a lot from holding conversations with these guys about the structure of Atlanta and the whites who still control from behind the scenes. The last white mayor of Atlanta family and my family are good friends.
 
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CEE DOG said:
The biggest missed opportunity was for Morris Brown to petition a case for the state of Georgia to become a public institution. Atlanta has no public HBCU and it would have changed the game.
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That would've been a good move. I can't too much blame Blacks in Atlanta for choosing GaState over the schools in the AUC. Private schools are ridiculously expensive and personally, I don't think they are worth it. A public Morris Brown would've filled a nice void.
 
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That would've been a good move. I can't too much blame Blacks in Atlanta for choosing GaState over the schools in the AUC. Private schools are ridiculously expensive and personally, I don't think they are worth it. A public Morris Brown would've filled a nice void.
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Yeah that's why I left home. My brothers and sister went to Spelman, Morehouse and Clark.
 
I just dont see Albany benefiting from this. It sounded good on paper but as I stated before, this is a two year college, where before the merger blacks were not flocking to Albany State after they received their two year degree or transferred credits so what really has changed now. Some of the black will stay due to money but a large sum will go to the PWC its sad but the reality.. I hope I am wrong.

And I do wonder sometime if ATL had a public HBCU how big would it be
 
Kenn Rashad said:
I know nothing about the political climate in Georgia, but from what I've read, this is not the first time Georgia has done this, nor is it expected to be the last. Georgia State was merged with some other school in the area. How has that worked?
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What school did Ga St merge with? I don't remember no school they merged with.
 
How close are these two schools to one another?

Looks like they only duplicate a few sports. I wonder if they will consolidate the duplicate sports or try to keep them as a JV type sports. According to their athletic websites they both have baseball, basketball (w), & softball. A consolidated ASU would gain soccer (m/w) & golf (m). They would have 7 men teams & 8 womens teams when it's all counted.

How many sports do a school have to sponsor do be on the D1 level?

Would they even consider moving up to D1?

These schools won't be one until 2017 so they still have some time to figure it all out.
 
Fiyah said:
How close are these two schools to one another?

Looks like they only duplicate a few sports. I wonder if they will consolidate the duplicate sports or try to keep them as a JV type sports. According to their athletic websites they both have baseball, basketball (w), & softball. A consolidated ASU would gain soccer (m/w) & golf (m). They would have 7 men teams & 8 womens teams when it's all counted.

How many sports do a school have to sponsor do be on the D1 level?

Would they even consider moving up to D1?

These schools won't be one until 2017 so they still have some time to figure it all out.
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The min is 14 or 15.
 
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