PPI - Radically Pragmatic
  • Donate
Skip to content
  • Home
  • About
    • About Us
    • Locations
    • Careers
  • People
  • Projects
  • Our Work
  • Events
  • Donate

Our Work

Untapped Expertise: HBCUs as Charter Authorizers, Part 4

  • April 10, 2025
  • Curtis Valentine
On this episode of RAS Reports, Curtis Valentine, the Director of PPI’s Reinventing America’s Schools Project, and Naomi Shelton, CEO of the National Charter Collaborative, sit down with Dr. Said Sewell, the President of Morris College in Sumter, South Carolina.

They discuss Dr. Sewell’s path to becoming the 11th President of Morris College, as well as how he sees his role in enhancing student success and the broader role of HBCUs as a whole.

This episode is the 4th in a series titled Untapped Expertise: HBCUs as Charter Authorizers, based on the paper of the same title by Curtis Valentine and Dr. Karega Rausch, President and CEO of NACSA.

Listen to the full episode.

Related Work

In the News  |  April 22, 2026

Canter in City Journal: What New York Can Learn from Mississippi’s Education Miracle

  • Rachel Canter
Op-Ed  |  April 20, 2026

Manno for Law and Liberty: The Social Wealth of Nations

  • Bruno Manno
In the News  |  April 16, 2026

Canter in The Next 30 Years: The Mississippi Marathon and the Problem with Education “Miracles”

  • Rachel Canter
In the News  |  April 16, 2026

Canter in SF Standard: SF schools’ reading reform is failing. An expert tells us why — and how to fix it

  • Rachel Canter
Op-Ed  |  April 15, 2026

Manno for CC Daily: The college transfer generation

  • Bruno Manno
Op-Ed  |  April 9, 2026

Manno for The Hill: Lessons From COVID School Aid: We Need Clearer Goals and Better Accountability

  • Bruno Manno
  • Never miss an update:

  • Subscribe to our newsletter
PPI Logo
  • Twitter
  • LinkedIn
  • Facebook
  • Donate
  • Careers
  • © 2026 Progressive Policy Institute. All Rights Reserved.
  • |
  • Privacy Policy
  • |
  • Privacy Settings