Dashawn Gibson, Allen University- c/o 2023, African American Studies
Name : Dashawn Gibson
HBCU : Allen University
Graduation Year : 2023
Major : African American Studies
Email : dashawng12@icloud.com
Where are you from? Who introduced you to HBCUs?*
I am from Cincinnati, Ohio, and I had been introduced to HBCUs by my parents and mentors that’s had an HBCU education that believed that it would be the greatest asset to my future as an student.
Why did you choose an HBCU over a pwi?*
I chose an HBCU to show first show appreciation to the people who came before us, second to keep the culture alive and promoting the HBCU education.
What is the story of your "experience" at Your HBCU given its heralded status as a stellar and prestigious institution?*
My experience at an HBCU is almost unreal and kinda like hard to explain! All I can really say is it an experience that you will never forget, from the loving hospitality to the greatest professors that are so friendly, to the things that you are able to be involved in throughout campus and the lovely peers !..
One great thing about Allen University is Allen is The only HBCU to offer wrestling as a collegiate level sport as of now. Me myself I am a part of the Allen University Yellow Jacket wrestling team.
"First time" experiences at your HBCU?*
My first experience was amazing, for my freshman week there were tons of fun activities that we did, as in a lot with our Student government, to the Amazing student activity board.
Who are the professors that have impacted your life in and out of the classroom? How did they do that?*
Mainly all of my professors have an huge Impact on me, they all have impacted me in an way that will help me better myself as an student, a young black man.
I have received numerous resources and opportunities from professors that I didn’t even take the classes, but because all the professors all really helpful and resourceful they will take they time out to help.
What sports do/did you play at your HBCU? What positions?
Wrestling, 165 pounder
Your wildest moment at college?
Partying till almost 7 in the morning
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Allen University
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Students: 600
- Athletics: Allen University currently maintains intercollegiate teams for men’s and women’s basketball, men’s and women’s track & field and cross-country, women’s volleyball, and men’s wrestling.
- Notable Alumni: Tywanza Sanders - 2014 - Victim of the Charleston church massacre**Clementa Carlos Pinckney - 1995 - Member of the South Carolina House of Representatives, 73rd District (1997- 2000) SC Senate District 45 (2000-2015)**Joseph DeLaine - Minister and civil rights leader who worked with South Carolina NAACP on the legal case Briggs vs Elliot in 1952. It was one of the four cases argued under Brown vs. Board of Education**Lewis C. Dowdy - 1939 - American educator; Sixth president and first chancellor of North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University**
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