My daughter attends. I can give you 2nd hand information.
Safety. This would be a concern no matter where she attended. Howard is as safe as can be expected at an urban school. ( I live in a large city, so my perspective may be skewed). Take precautions as you would normally, and you should be ok. No one is breaking into the dorms, and there is a security presense on campus.
Availability of resources. Howard is rich with resources, however, they are not handed to you on a silver platter. Some things are obvious. If you are motivated, you will find want you want.
Dorms. There are several flavors of dorms..freshman women, freshmen men. My daughter stays in Bethune Annex. It is a suite dorm. It also has a cafeteria. It's the quiet dorm. And it has air conditioning. The Quad is the more social freshman female dorm and it's larger.
The freshmen male dorms, I honestly can't rememebr, but one is like, if you make it through the year there, you are a real Howard Man
For sophomore year, my daughter will be staying in Howard Towers, an on-campus apartment complex. I'll have to see it when I pick her up.
Food. She's not real crazy about it.
good luck!
