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FAMU President Larry Robinson was one of six HBCU presidents to visit Tel Aviv earlier this month for an inaugural HBCU leaders’ delegation to Israel.
The nine-day trip was the outgrowth of a partnership made this spring between the Thurgood Marshall College Fund, an organization representing public HBCUs, and the American Jewish Committee (AJC), a Jewish advocacy organization.
The trip was a “capacity-building” mission to experience a country known for its technological innovation and “to find out what the opportunities were for HBCUs to partner with Israeli institutions for student exchanges, faculty exchanges and joint research opportunities.”
The HBCU presidents who participated are the heads of land-grant institutions — Florida A&M University, Tuskegee University, Virginia State University, Langston University, Alabama A&M University and Fort Valley State University — historically Black universities established in 1890 that focus on food sciences and agriculture research. A goal of the new partnership is to bring the presidents of all 19 historically Black land-grant institutions on future trips.