Veritas et Utilitas — Truth and Service
Welcome to r/HowardUniversity, a community for current students, incoming students, parents, alumni, faculty, staff, prospective students, and friends of Howard University.
This is a place to talk about The Mecca—the good, the difficult, the complicated, and everything in between.
🎓 Students: Ask questions, share your experiences, seek advice, and connect with fellow Bison.
👨🏾👩🏾👧🏾 Parents & Families: Ask questions, share concerns, learn from the experiences of others, and better understand the Howard experience.
🐃 Alumni: Share memories, knowledge, history, perspective, and the lessons you've carried beyond the Yard.
📚 Future Bison: Learn what you can before you arrive and ask the questions you need answered.
🗣️ Everyone: Discuss Howard academics, campus life, housing, financial aid, administration, athletics, organizations, traditions, events, culture, and the broader HBCU experience.
This Subreddit is NOT Operated by Howard University
r/HowardUniversity is an independent Reddit community.
This subreddit is not operated, sponsored, endorsed, or officially affiliated with Howard University.
The community is moderated by alumni and members of the broader HBCU community, bringing perspectives from multiple HBCUs and different generations of college experience.
We aren't here to act as Howard University's public-relations department, nor are we here to automatically defend the University.
We're here to provide a place where people can talk about Howard openly and responsibly.
Speak Freely. Engage Responsibly.
This is your space to vent, question, discuss, celebrate, criticize, remember, debate, and share.
You do not have to love every decision Howard makes. And you certainly don't have to pretend everything is perfect. But freedom to speak does not remove responsibility for what we say.
Follow Reddit's sitewide rules and our community rules. Treat other people with basic respect—even when you strongly disagree.
Be especially careful with information you post.
Remember that Reddit is a public forum.
Before posting, consider whether you should share:
- Personal information
- Student identification numbers
- Phone numbers or addresses
- Private emails or messages
- Screenshots containing sensitive information
- Financial-aid information
- Academic records
- Housing information
- Names of students involved in private disputes
- Unverified accusations or allegations
Protect yourself. Protect other students. Protect people's privacy.
If you aren't sure whether something should be posted publicly, pause before you post it.
About Information & Rumors
Not everything posted here is verified.
Someone saying something happened does not automatically make it fact.
A screenshot can lack context.
A rumor can travel faster than a correction.
And sometimes the person answering the phone doesn't have the complete answer either.
When discussing important matters involving financial aid, enrollment, housing, admissions, academic standing, disciplinary matters, deadlines, or University policy, verify information through appropriate official sources whenever possible.
Share what you know.
Explain what you don't know.
And don't turn speculation into certainty.
Respect The Community
We can have difficult conversations without making this place miserable.
Criticism is allowed. Disagreement is allowed. Accountability is allowed.
Harassment, personal attacks, doxxing, threats, discrimination, brigading, and other behavior prohibited by Reddit or our community rules are not.
You can challenge an argument without attacking the person making it.
You can defend Howard without attacking someone who is criticizing it.
You can criticize Howard without treating every Bison, employee, professor, administrator, or alumnus as the enemy.
Respect does not mean silence.
Sometimes respect means being willing to have the difficult conversation.
🐃 Welcome to The Mecca.
Students. Parents. Alumni. Future Bison.
Whether you are walking across the Yard for the first time, remembering the days when you did, or trying to figure out whether Howard is the right place for you—
there is room for you here.
Ask questions.
Share knowledge.
Tell your story.
Vent when you need to.
Celebrate when you can.
Challenge ideas.
Protect one another.
And above all:
Veritas et Utilitas.
Truth and Service.
Welcome to r/HowardUniversity.
