How to nurture virtually: The challenge of replicating the HBCU experience online

ABSTRACT

The students of color face a variety of obstacles in higher education, and the recent pandemic exacerbated many of the existing issues lacking access to valuable resources, affordable course materials, and technological challenges. The inception of the COVID-19 pandemic created an unprecedented disruption to higher education that has resulted in an amassing paradigm shift for Historically Black Colleges and Universities. These institutions that have traditionally offered a curriculum in a face-to-face format with a small percentage of courses online. This chapter explores the challenges of replicating the HBCU experience online. © 2021, IGI Global.