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Originally posted by Drolefille
That's an grant request hosted on ou.edu's website, written by a professor (and several graduate students) who is attempting to recieve money and will be running a study. Not an official university document.
I'm not denying the term isn't used by people, but not by universities as descriptors for themselves.
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Also, the acronym is not used. Since that's what's at issue (not the stringing together of three words) I think it matters.
Of course, why does it even matter at all? Would everyone be pretty well indifferent if we started to refer to HBCUs as PBIs? There might be some concern over the word "predominant" indicating that one race is somehow "dominant" which seems to say that the institution is governed by the needs and wants and aims of a certain race.
Are semantics really all that important? Especially when the distinction is so fine?