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Study: Companies Don’t Spend Enough Time Recruiting at HBCUs

by Michelle J. Nealy , October 16, 2007

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Dwayne Ashley of the Thurgood Marshall College Fund says recruiters aren't visiting enough HBCU schools.

“Academically, students from HBCUs are just as prepared as those from non-HBCUs and can compete with any student in the country. However, students from both college types lack the social preparation necessary to navigate their way through these large corporations and government agencies,” Ashley says.

To increase the number of minority hires, Ashley recommends Fortune 400 companies and government agencies use programs like INROADS or TMCF’s talent sourcing programs to zero in on minority talent.

“High-performing HBCU students from our college fund and full-time leadership institutes are loaded into a database. Companies use us and organizations like ours as a vehicle to access [the students at] all 47 of our institutions,” Ashley says.

--Michelle J. Nealy

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