{"id":4039,"date":"2025-02-05T11:03:00","date_gmt":"2025-02-05T11:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/at-hillmantok-a-digital-h-b-c-u-class-is-in-session\/"},"modified":"2025-02-05T11:03:00","modified_gmt":"2025-02-05T11:03:00","slug":"at-hillmantok-a-digital-h-b-c-u-class-is-in-session","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/at-hillmantok-a-digital-h-b-c-u-class-is-in-session\/","title":{"rendered":"At Hillmantok, a Digital H.B.C.U., Class Is in Session"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-0\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Leah Barlow, a liberal studies professor at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University, prepared to teach her Intro to African American Studies class this semester as she always does: She put together a syllabus, mapped out assignments and created a TikTok account to make the material as accessible as possible.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">She posted <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@afamstudies\/video\/7462142943680302382\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">a video on Jan. 20<\/a> welcoming her 35 students to the course. By the next morning, it had surfaced in the algorithm of enough TikTok users that 250,000 people had subscribed to her <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@afamstudies\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">channel<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Within days, Dr. Barlow\u2019s videos had unintentionally inspired a loosely affiliated network of Black educators, experts and content creators to form what has become known as Hillmantok University, a free \u2014 and unaccredited and unofficial \u2014 online take on the country\u2019s H.B.C.U.s, or historically Black colleges and universities<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In lectures delivered in TikTok-length bursts, and in longer sessions over TikTok Live, instructors are teaching classes in gardening, organic chemistry, culinary arts and other subjects. On the receiving end, organizers say, is an audience of about 16,000 registered users.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-1\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cI think that this has been in the making,\u201d Dr. Barlow said in an interview last week from her office in Greensboro, N.C. \u201cYou have accessibility, not just because of TikTok but you also have people who don\u2019t have to be in the ivory tower to have the ability to speak. That is something that I find both beautiful and necessary.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The appetite for information also comes at the dawn of a second Trump administration. Dr. Barlow posted her video hours after President Trump was sworn in and swiftly set about dismantling federal programs that promote diversity, equity and inclusion. Many academics fear a trickle-down effect across education.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cI certainly think the political time and the environment is rife with a lot of contention,\u201d Dr. Barlow said, adding that Mr. Trump\u2019s assault on diversity programs had given \u201cfresh urgency\u201d to a project that prioritizes Black voices.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-2\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Cierra Hinton, a former math teacher in Augusta, Ga., and a founder of Hillmantok, watched Dr. Barlow\u2019s original post and some of the early videos inspired by it. \u201cDid I wake up in Hillman?\u201d she recalled thinking, referring to Hillman College, the fictional H.B.C.U. featured in \u201cThe Cosby Show\u201d and its spinoff, \u201cA Different World.\u201d A name for the movement was born.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-3\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Kennddrick Pringley, a publicist and D.J. in Tampa, Fla., also was among the thousands of TikTok users who stumbled onto Dr. Barlow\u2019s original post. Now he\u2019s Hillmantok\u2019s student union president and part of a group of about 40 content creators-turned-volunteers who saw an opportunity to organize.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In the face of the uncertainty over the future of education policy under a second Trump administration, Mr. Pringley said a \u201csocial media university\u201d could provide a space to counter the misinformation circulating online.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cEducation is becoming limited, covered up, muted and silenced,\u201d he said. \u201cThis is a moment and a movement that can teach the masses everything that they really should know.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Hillmantok\u2019s organizers built a <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/hillmantokhbcu.com\/\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">website<\/a>, complete with a course catalog and registration page, and started delivering regular updates on the <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@hillmantok.university\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Hillmantok TikTok account<\/a>. There is a board of trustees and student governing board; many members of both bodies spent long nights on Zoom creating a formal structure for Hillmantok.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cWe\u2019re marching together to make sure that everyone has a chance at a free and fair education,\u201d Mr. Pringley said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">When Brandi Smith came across Dr. Barlow\u2019s page, she was disappointed to find that the class was not actually open to the public. Still, Ms. Smith, who attended Spelman College before graduating from the Savannah College of Art and Design, followed <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@afamstudies\/video\/7463946924945640747\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">the syllabus Dr. Barlow posted<\/a> and started holding study sessions on her TikTok page, including on subjects like <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/09\/30\/movies\/13th-review-ava-duvernay.html\" title=\"\">the documentary \u201c13th\u201d<\/a> by the filmmaker Ava DuVernay; <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@afamstudies\/video\/7464648769808715050\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">the songs<\/a> \u201cThis Is America\u201d by Childish Gambino and \u201cThe Revolution Will Not Be Televised\u201d by Gil Scott-Heron; an episode of the TV show \u201cAtlanta\u201d; and the essay \u201c<a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hartford-hwp.com\/archives\/45a\/298.html\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Why I Won\u2019t Vote<\/a>\u201d by W.E.B. Du Bois.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-4\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cIt was an opportunity to engage with Black women on a level that really spoke to my spirit,\u201d Ms. Smith said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">For Andr\u00e9 Isaacs, an organic chemistry professor at College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Mass., Hillmantok presented an opportunity he had long dreamed of: using his <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@drdre4000\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">growing social media following<\/a> to share his passion for chemistry and teaching.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cWe need science literacy in our country,\u201d Dr. Isaacs said. \u201cI want to do my part in having people understand the molecules that are in the skin care products they\u2019re using, and when we say the word acid, what does that mean on a molecular level?\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Dr. Isaacs said that about 1,000 people signed on via Zoom or TikTok Live to hear his first Hillmantok lecture. Since then, about 3,000 people have registered <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.isaacslab.com\/ochem.html\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">on his website<\/a> to receive course material, including recorded lectures, lesson plans, homework assignments and even quizzes, along with an open-source textbook and a discussion channel on Discord, the messaging app.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-5\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Dr. Isaacs was particularly enthusiastic about helping to demystify a subject that is often viewed as inaccessible.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-6\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cCollege tuition nowadays is prohibitively expensive, so a lot of people can\u2019t have access to that, especially a lot of Black and brown kids,\u201d he said. \u201cIf they just had an understanding of what it looks like or maybe a leg up in terms of the materials, that would help build their resilience and their enthusiasm about the subject matter.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Dominique Kinsler of Orlando, Fla., is using Hillmantok to change perceptions of another topic that many see as having a high barrier to entry: gardening<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cEvery time I learn something I want to teach it to other people,\u201d she said. \u201cIt\u2019s a lot to do while I work,\u201d referring to her career as a pharmacist, \u201cbut it\u2019s a passion. It doesn\u2019t feel like a chore.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Ms. Kinsler taught herself to garden during the pandemic, attracting hundreds of thousands of followers with the instructional videos she posts under her social media handle, <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@pharmunique_\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Pharmunique<\/a>. So when Hillmantok sprang up, a Gardening 101 class seemed a natural fit.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Her <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@pharmunique_\/video\/7463527073819200814?_r=1&amp;_t=ZT-8tdhTtxoQeM\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">first Hillmantok video<\/a> received about 1,000 views within 30 minutes and more than 1 million by the next day. She\u2019s received such an enthusiastic response to her Hillmantok class, she said, that she is working on a textbook. Her approach is simple: To teach people how to garden in the space they have available to them.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-7\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Hillmantok came at a \u201cpivotal turning point,\u201d Ms. Kinsler said, especially when it comes to the influence of politics and disinformation.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-8\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cPeople have a bit of fear of what education will look like in the future \u2014 will we be able to learn these things?\u201d she said, adding that the recent federal TikTok ban magnified that fear. (The app briefly stopped working this month before flickering back to life after Mr. Trump said he would <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/01\/20\/technology\/trump-tiktok-ban-delay-executive-order.html\" title=\"\">sign an executive order<\/a> delaying enforcement of the ban.) \u201cIt felt like somebody took a piece of power away from us,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Now, with Hillmantok, people are taking a different approach, Ms. Kinsler said: \u201cLet me get a notebook. 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