LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (KATV) — For nearly 150 years, Philander Smith University has stood in Little Rock as a place built to educate, uplift and open doors, and it continues that mission today, even as funding challenges persist for Arkansas’ private historically Black colleges and universities. Founded in 1877, Philander Smith University was created to educate newly freed Black students in the years following the Civil War. Like many HBCUs across the country, it was established by the Methodist Episcopal Church and named after Philander Smith, a philanthropist whose family helped fund its early work. The university has remained rooted in
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