WHAT A MESS!

Howard University faculty (as distinct from administration) may not engage in any for-profit academic activity. However, Howard University faculty (as distinct from administration) are among the lowest paid in the nation. The Howard University administration has run the University into the ground; the institution is basically broke. So the Howard University administration goes, hat in hand, to the National Science Foundation, which doles us out some funds on condition that we dance to their tune. That tune is that we turn our focus away from white supremacy—never mind that we are supposedly the leading one of the nation’s 105 HISTORICALLY BLACK COLLEGES/UNIVERSITIES (HBCUs). And the National Science Foundation engages a for-profit white corporation to help us forsake our misguided preoccupation with white supremacy.