November 20, 1998

Black Colleges Aim Higher With Fund-Raising Campaigns

By JOYE MERCER

Hampton U. seeks a record $200-million and Howard U. may soon try to top that

Hampton University has joined the Big League of campaigners: higher-education institutions that are attempting to raise hundreds of millions of dollars.

For Hampton, among the country's wealthiest historically black universities, the $200-million goal is a stretch -- but hardly inconceivable. When Hampton officially announced

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