It’s been three decades since we saw Denise Huxtable go to Hillman College, a fictional HBCU in Virginia, where she would meet Dwayne Wayne and the stylist Whitley Gilbert in The Cosby Show spin-off A Different World. BET’s new show, The Quad will premiere tonight where viewers will get an inside look of historically Black university, Georgia A&M University (GAMU) in Atlanta. The Quad is the latest entry in a pop culture tradition that includes A Different World, Drumline, School Daze and Stomp the Yard.

The Quad is an hour-long drama that shows the depictions of GAMU’s first female president, Eva Flecther and the school’s freshmen who have to learn how to navigate life away from home in a new environment. The series highlights the university’s administration, students, band and rich cultural traditions of HBCU’s.

The series follows President Eva Fletcher, a firm, poised and ambitious alpha woman. An Ivy League graduate, she has just been forced to resign from her job as president of Laura Farnsworth, a prestigious liberal arts college in the Northeast because of an affair with a student.

Jasmine Guy who played the spoiled Whitley in A Different World, comes to The Quad as a wise, respected trustee.

“The show will depict us in a positive light. I feel that it’s going to be positive that shows the Black student ambition,” India Anderson, a sophomore journalism major at the historically Black Hampton University from Atlanta said.

The visionaries behind The Quad are Florida A&M University graduates Rob Hardy and Mitzi Miller, the former editor-in-chief of Ebony magazine. After producing the 2007 hit Stomp the Yard, Hardy thought it would be a good idea to have a version of the movie as a TV series. The Quad was created by TV veterans Charles Holland, former co-executive producer of Soul Food and Felicia D. Henderson, former co-executive producer of Gossip Girls and former producer of Soul Food and Sister Sister.