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.
About
Howard Alumni United, Inc.
Howard Alumni United, Inc. (HAU) is an independent alumni organization committed to:
Strengthening alumni engagement and participation
Supporting students and the broader university community
Advocating for shared governance, transparency, and accountability
Advancing alumni independence as a means of empowering alumni voices
HAU operates as a complementary organization to existing alumni structures, with a focus on independent organization, advocacy, and impact.
Independent Alumni Organization
Now, more than ever, it is time for the alumni of Howard University to form an independent alumni organization
free from the administrative and financial restrictions of the university.
The video below includes excerpts from past protests and reminds us that We Are Worth Fighting For*, a termed coined by April R. Silver, one of the leaders of the Howard University 1989 protest.
*We Are Worth Fighting For: A History of the Howard University Student Protest of 1989 (NYU Press) is by Dr. Joshua Myers, an Associate Professor of Africana Studies in the Department of Afro-American Studies at Howard University. He is also the author of Cedric Robinson: The Time of the Black Radical Tradition. In addition to serving on the board of the Association for the Study of Classical African Civilizations and the editorial board of The Compass: Journal of the Association for the Study of Classical African Civilizations, he works with the DC area collectives, Positive Black Folks in Action and the DC Black Power Chronicles. His research interests include Africana intellectual histories and traditions, Africana philosophy, critical university studies, and disciplinarity. His work has been published in Critical Ethnic Studies Journal, The Journal of African American Studies,The Journal of Pan African Studies, The African Journal of Rhetoric, The Human Rights and Globalization Law Review, Liberator Magazine, and Pambazuka, among other literary spaces. Dr. Myers is a part of the “Black radical love” tradition at Howard University. Meaning, one can be deeply entrenched at Howard University and not turn out to be an assimilationist. He edits A Gathering Together and is on Twitter (@ddhewty). His website is joshmmyers.com.
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