Amid Trump's assaults on DEI, how one university is elevating Black students
Sacramento State has launched a Black Honors College to better support and elevate Black students on campus. This initiative serves as a counter-effort to the broader national trend of universities rolling back DEI programs.
Why it matters
It highlights the ongoing tension in American higher education regarding diversity initiatives and institutional support for minority students.
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When Zyearre Amoah was a student at Sacramento State in 2023, there were times when he felt like the only Black student.
"There were African-American students on our campus," he recalls. But at a sprawling state university with more than 30,000 students, "it just felt like we had to look for each other."
Amoah graduated in 2024, just as his university was launching its Black Honors College, a school within a school with a special focus on Black history, life and culture. He's now a staff member at the BHC, as it's called, helping recruit students.
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