Given these sorry data, which indicate how far black citizens have to go in these important disciplines, one can surely understand why many supporters of CSU are not easily embracing a vision of CSU that excludes the offering of degrees in humanities and basic natural and social sciences. Given the limited support for CSU by some Republican law-makers and the near absence of constituency pressure on them in favor of Central State, Hairston's effort to save Central State cannot be easy. The fact, however, is that CSU's problems are multifaceted. Mismanagement is one. State underfunding is another.
Miserly alumni giving is another.
And so on. In fact, inadequate levels of state funding for public black universities is not an Ohio monopoly. Even the best-run public black universities in other states still sing the budgetary blues. Last year, it was ranked first above Harvard, Stanford, Yale, Princeton and other prestigious institutions that matriculate the most national achievement scholars in all of America. No other university in the state of Florida made the list.