Boston’s higher education landscape is world-renowned. What it doesn’t have, City Councilor Brian Worrell argues, is an HBCU.

The solution? Deliver that blend of culture and academic excellence to the community by bringing the satellite campus of a historically Black college or university to the city.

Worrell, who represents the city’s District 4, and the City Council’s Education Committee held a hearing to collect community input on the proposal, Aug. 26.

“This is the mecca of education,” Worrell said in an interview. “Establishing an HBCU presence in the mecca of education, I think, is something that is definitely long overdue.”

It’s an effort that many attendees at the city council hearing spoke in support of.

Worrell said he approaches the process with a handful of goals. For on

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