ABSTRACT
Several years after leaving and subsequently returning to community college, the author visited Morgan State University of his own volition to interview Dr. Spencer Holland, a professor who started a program called Project 2000, which followed fifty-five African American fifth-grade students through their high school graduation. Despite unfounded yet no less popular belief, the educational program at an HBCU is incredibly rigorous, and was fortunate to have walked in the door knowing that author's doctoral program would not believe my baccalaureate experience. Some of the most positive experiences I had during my doctoral studies at Morgan State took place outside of the classroom. The author had the opportunity to serve as the president of the Graduate Student Association (GSA). Although it would take a great deal of work and university resources, permission had given to have the GSA host an academic conference at Morgan for Black graduate students across the country.
