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Supporters of Barber-Scotia College, a historically Black college in North Carolina, are asking more than 100,000 women to donate to keep the college afloat.<\/p>\n
A fundraising campaign by a group called the 144K Collective is calling on 144,000 women to donate at least $1.44 toward the college\u2019s financial future. Barber-Scotia, which was founded as a Black women\u2019s college in 1867 but has since become coed, has struggled financially and lost its accreditation in 2004.<\/p>\n
Kirbie Speights, secretary of the 144K Collective, told WCNC that she was inspired by the college\u2019s history and Women\u2019s History Month to launch the grassroots effort.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere\u2019s no better time to be a woman and to make an impact,\u201d Speights said.<\/p>\n
The college\u2019s president, Chris V. Rey, said in a video message in January that the college had \u201ccompletely run out of money.\u201d He and his administration are working to regain accreditation and pull off a comeback.<\/p>\n
He told WCNC he\u2019ll take all the help he can get.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf you want to take over handling the maintenance of the grass on campus, I would receive that,\u201d Rey said. \u201cIf you have access to individuals who can fix the roof, I need it all here at Barber-Scotia right now.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Supporters of Barber-Scotia College, a historically Black college in North Carolina, are asking more than 100,000 women to donate to keep the college afloat. A fundraising campaign by a group called the 144K Collective is calling on 144,000 women to donate at least $1.44 toward the college\u2019s financial future. Barber-Scotia, which was founded as a<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":46512,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[23735,535,6408,116,418],"class_list":{"0":"post-46511","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-education","8":"tag-barberscotia","9":"tag-college","10":"tag-crowdsource","11":"tag-funding","12":"tag-women"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46511","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46511"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46511\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/46512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}