That is the story of HBCU enrollment surging, and it’s a story that deserves to be told without a foil. While American college enrollment shrank over the past decade, HBCU enrollment grew seven percent in just three years — a surge the National Center for Education Statistics measures against fourteen percent across the entire previous half-century. And through eHBCU.edu, the first national online HBCU learning consortium, sister institutions now teach together, so that any student, anywhere, can claim this inheritance. Tony Allen, Ph.D., is the 12th President of Delaware State University, the nation’s most diverse contemporary HBCU. He also chairs eHBCU.edu, the first national online HBCU learning consortium.