Are you really that historically uninformed? Do you not understand what the letters in the acronym HBC stands for?
At a time when separate but equal was the law of the land WV State was the "negro" college. That is why both it and WVU are both land grant universities when the federal government supported segregation they would award two land grant schools to each state that had both white and black colleges. States that didn't have segregated college structures got only one land grant university.
Given it's history as the black college during segregation it was and always will be the states HBC, whether it remains primarily black majority enrollment or not.
I am well aware of the reason for existence of wvsc and the land situation. FYI wvsc gave its land grant status years ago and just renewed it a couple of years ago. Land Grants schools were mainly set up to teach agricultural studies and WV now is not a major agricultural state. You also forgot to mention the other WV state supported college, Bluefield State. The 1950 census list the population of WV prior to Supreme Court decision of Brown vs BOE at 2,005,552 with a Black population of 114,867.
https://archive.wvculture.org/history/teacherresources/censuspopulationrace.htmlThe 2020 US Census lists WV's population at 1,793,716 with a Black population of about 66,300.
https://www.census.gov/library/stories/state-by-state/west-virginia-population-change-between-census-decade.htmlUnlike many Southern states, WV has had a dramatic decline of Black residents. Unlike Virginia; North Carolina and Florida where I have lived, the HBC have flourished and are important parts of those state's societies. Thank goodness that all the public colleges in WV have embraced Black students, while the WV HBC have become majority white institutions. Integration has worked in the WV college system! The WV HBC have outlived their usefulness like several smaller state colleges in the WV higher institution system. By the way, wvsc gave up it status as a land grant school years ago and just recently renewed the program to receive federal funding.
When WV didn't have a medical school, the state purchased spots in medical schools for WV students. If a Black WV resident wants to go a real HBC, maybe WV should support those students to attend out of state HBC with financial aid like we did for medical students.
I don't believe in separate but equal, but you seem to want that choice.