Op-Ed: What It Takes To Sustain HBCU Leadership

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By Aja Johnson and Walter Kimbrough ·Updated January 27, 2026 Getting your Trinity Audio player ready…

Aja Johnson is Senior Program Manager at the United Negro College Fund Institute for Capacity Building.Walter M. Kimbrough is Executive Vice President at the United Negro College Fund.

We often talk about sustainability in higher education as if it were a race measured in quarters, dashboards, and presidential contracts. But at Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs), sustainability

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