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Samantha Tubman

...in Washington, DC, when they went to Howard University . My father was from Liberia, Africa...

Eric Waldo

...Craig goes, and she also had heard of Howard University , so that's what was on her list. Sh...
...our Beating the Odds conversations from Howard University that we hosted in 2019. But we'r...
...check the tape. But we visited I think Howard Community College around the DM...

Mona Sutphen

...yourself, [David “Ax”] Axelrod, and [ Howard “Dan”] Pfeiffer [crosstalk]— Oh...

Anna Deavere Smith

...of Morgan [State University] and Howard [University] . Some of my relative...
.... Some of my relatives went to Howard , and all that kind of stuff. I fel...

Katie Johnson

...[laughs], because I would sub in for Howard [A. Shelanski]. He was the head of OIR...

Karen Richardson

...been in DC for undergraduate school at Howard , law school at Howard. So I kind o...
...school at Howard, law school at Howard . So I kind of took a detour when ...
...DC, and my parents were from Howard . They met at Howard. My mom's side o...
...parents were from Howard. They met at Howard . My mom's side of the family is fro...

Wayne Frederick

...Frederick the seventeenth president of Howard University and the distinguished Charles R. Dre...
...R. Drew Professor of Surgery at the Howard University College of Medicine. Dr. Frederick i...
...is also a practicing cancer surgeon at Howard University Hospital, where he continues to se...
...a provost and chief academic officer of Howard University . He received his BS and MD from Howar...
...He received his BS and MD from Howard and began his academic career a...

...of Connecticut. Upon his return to Howard University , his academic positions include...
...2008, I was here in Washington, DC, at Howard . I was back at Howard for two years...
...DC, at Howard. I was back at Howard for two years. At that point, I had tw...
...said at this point you had been back to Howard for two years then. What issues wer...
...at the time, being on campus, being at Howard , a historically Black university. Ca...
...myself. I benefited incredibly from the Howard education I got. I did two year...
...at twenty-two. So the opportunity Howard gave me was unusual; very, ver...
...the university presidents you get at Howard . Maybe we can go to—or you ca...
...you have from being involved in the Howard community—for decades, really—and th...
...day. Over that period of time, I saw Howard strong in legacy but probably ver...
...country. And I think the leadership at Howard , you could think of the sam...
...as you went into a recession, of a Howard education all of a sudden evaporated...
...people who certainly deserved to be at Howard to get a Howard education but couldn'...
...deserved to be at Howard to get a Howard education but couldn't afford it, an...
...that we only enroll about 250 students. Howard sends more African Americans to medica...
...You look at the economic resources of Howard , we're teetering on about a billion...
...on. Before you assume the presidency of Howard , there is this intense politica...
...say we did that for one patient here at Howard . But then every hospital in Americ...
...to have. Because just like with running Howard , when we provide healthcare we thin...
...you become the seventeenth president of Howard . And, like you said, it was somethin...
...was a signature moment, really, for Howard , the fact that it would take myself. ...
...order of who was most likely to become Howard 's president, I would've been at th...
...But I think that's a big part of what Howard is about. It brings you in, i...
...no other one. It says how exceptional Howard is. I don't feel I have a...
...I think you talk to everybody at Howard and the stories are incredible. Bu...
...incredible. But what's amazing is then, Howard doubled down in that and made me it...
...what you were thinking at that time? Howard is one of two nonmilitary institution...
...Most people don't realize that. It's Howard and Gallaudet, actually. They're th...
...and he's talking about taking away Howard 's appropriation and giving Howard ...
...away Howard's appropriation and giving Howard a one-time payment and walking away. S...
...a strong case to make. What we do at Howard , I think the country gets a hug...
...one who signed the charter to start the Howard University . He may have done it as a concession...
...that the fact that General Oliver Otis Howard and his sixteen colleagues were willin...
...continue to invest even more in a Howard University and like institutions. Maybe we ca...
...leanings. But in a circumstance like Howard 's, I have to speak to al...
...did I find? Students who are here at Howard and the product of single mother...
...of interruption of funding at Howard through sequestration and what tha...
...or anybody who has anything to do with Howard University , you've got to be communicating t...
...area in particular, and by extension to Howard —I think it was humbling, a humblin...
...So tying his visits to the history at Howard , you look at the first Africa...
...fact that even the mere existence of Howard put him in a position to be able to ru...
...I am one of the younger presidents at Howard , as the seventeenth president—but no...
...give the commencement address here at Howard . It meant a lot to have him give th...
...but as you came to an institution like Howard , to embody both. I thought it was a...
...known fact is that at that point, Howard and Notre Dame had been th...
...been an incredible experience for Howard , to have that many presidents. But...
...come back to the commencement address— Howard 's role in DC and its uniqu...
...of presidential visits speaking to Howard 's unique role as an institution...
...role. I think it's been incredible. Howard has played an outsized role in the ar...
...have to step back to really understand Howard is that every single day, my alum ar...
...air lifts those stars. So I think what Howard does, in both big and small ways...
...amplify each other's humanity. I think Howard embodies the fact that you come here t...
...provide service to others. I think all Howard alum really embodies that, and the...
...journey must continue. This track that Howard University is on to social justice is one tha...
...journey to social justice. Vessels like Howard University that have been on that journey, ...

Beverly Daniel Tatum

...I didn't go to an HBCU. My parents were Howard graduates. You don't get dinged for th...

Gil Kerlikowske

...historical Black colleges. I went to Howard [University College of Medicine]. ...

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