About Us

Our Mission

Howard Alumni United (HAU) is a permanent organization for the alumni of Howard University—a culturally diverse, comprehensive, research-intensive, and historically Black private university—that will strengthen, amplify, and generally support the University’s stated mission of providing for its students an educational experience of exceptional quality, and of attracting and sustaining a cadre of faculty who are (through their teaching, research, and service) committed to the development of distinguished, historically aware, and compassionate graduates and to the discovery of solutions to human problems in the United States and throughout the world.

Also, HAU aims to assist under-represented, under-resourced, and underprivileged students who experience financial difficulties in pursuing their education at Howard University. HAU informs, educates, and fosters an appreciation for the University’s unique role in advancing the rationale for and relevance of historical, practical, and conceptual Black colleges and universities in the United States. While centering our core values of shared governance, honorable leadership, and transparency, HAU will accomplish its mission, in perpetuity, without being influenced by, dependent upon, or beholden to any governing or administrative body of or connected to Howard University.