After HBCU bomb threats, NCCU gets grant to hire, train staff on racial trauma response
A North Carolina HBCU will receive a federal grant after it was targeted in bomb threats against historically Black colleges and universities last year.
N.C. Central University in Durham is one of three HBCUs getting Project School Emergency Response to Violence (SERV) grants, the U.S. Department of Education announced Friday.
The university will receive $213,500. The grants were first announced this past fall.
In January 2022, NCCU received a bomb threat that led to a campus evacuation, The News & Observer previously reported. Other HBCUs also received bomb threats and have received grants to increase security and safety of students.
Here’s what the grant will fund at NCCU:
▪ A full-time care manager
▪ Director’s Learning, Empowering and Advocating for Diversity (LEAD) workshops to train faculty to recognize the impacts of racial trauma and PTSD and “to support students and aid in the overall safety climate at the university.” The workshops will be held over six sessions.
▪ A part-time case manager who will respond to campus crises and help with follow-up care to impacted students, and support campus police services.
▪ Overtime pay for five police officers and six Residential Life staffers responding to campus evacuation and after hours.
Other HBCUs to receive grants include Philander Smith College in Arkansas and Hampton University in Virginia, which will both use funds to hire more staff.
This story was originally published January 15, 2023 at 1:19 PM.
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