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JANUARY 29, 2024

Historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) face systemic challenges in accumulating substantial endowments, according to a new joint study by UNCF (United Negro College Fund) and PGIM, the global asset management business of Prudential Financial, Inc. HBCUs are substantially more risk averse than non-HBCUs, 2.)

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NOVEMBER 3, 2023

The Biden-Harris 2024 campaign has released a new ad about President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris’ record $7 billion in funding for HBCUs, theGrio reported. The campaign ad – part of the Biden-Harris campaign’s early outreach to Black voters – ends with the tagline, “Billions more for HBCUs, endless possibilities for us.” “As

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MARCH 27, 2024

Dunbar shared her stories with the gathered crowd on the final day of the College Board’s "A Dream Deferred: a Historically Black College and University (HBCU) Conference." She and other scholars underlined the critical importance of HBCUs and an inclusive, expansive history curriculum being taught to students K-12 and beyond.

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FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Alexandria McBride As such, UNCF and its Institute for Capacity Building released, “ The HBCU Climate Action Blueprint: Sustainable Campuses, Empowered Communities ,” examining the current activities and future aspirations of historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) in climate change, sustainability, and environmental justice.

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FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Keeley_Copridge.jpg UNCF’s report identifies recruitment, curricular, and co-curricular best practices implemented at historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) as major producers of Black teachers for America’s public education system. Patterson Research Institute, UNCF, and one of the report's authors.

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DECEMBER 22, 2022

Dr. Wayne Black When it pertains to HBCUs there often seems to be lots of opinions from people regarding HBCUs that are not needed. The deficit framed thinking whenever HBCUs are mentioned is because of internal and external anti-Blackness as a framework. Since 1837, HBCUs have been tormented by the hands of white supremacy.

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MARCH 13, 2024

The growing prominence of artificial intelligence tools in the mainstream can strengthen the work of higher education in a variety of ways, according to a report commissioned by HBCU support organization the Partnership for Education Advancement. " Finch, vice president for enrollment management at the institution.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 24, 2023

America has woken up to the unique benefits of HBCUs for Black students. Suddenly, HBCUs have cultural cachet, thanks to celebrities like Beyoncé, who honored the schools in her 2019 concert documentary Homecoming , and Deion Sanders, who brought Jackson State University’s football team to national prominence before departing last December.

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MARCH 26, 2024

Institutions, including medical and scientific institutions, have treated Black and Brown citizens “terribly over the centuries,” said Corbett-Helaire, which spreads their understandable mistrust. “I A 2023 report by the Annenberg Institute for School Reform, studying almost 1.2

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JANUARY 12, 2024

The grant is the largest unrestricted private grant UNCF has ever received, according to UNCF President and CEO Dr. UNCF plans to deploy monies from its latest grant award to building a pooled endowment fund that will increase the endowments at its 37 member institutions by $10 million each.

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MAY 4, 2023

HBCUs are attracting students at record numbers and experiencing an uptick in philanthropic support, both of which are chipping away at decades of underfunding. Unfortunately, HBCUs have not been immune to the hiring and retention challenges impacting higher education recently. million with a 195% ROI within three years.

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MAY 3, 2023

On average, historically Black college and universities (HBCUs) received 178 times less funding from foundations than Ivy League schools in 2019, according to a report from research group Candid and ABFE, a nonprofit advocate for investments in Black communities, the Associated Press reported. In contrast, 99 HBCUs got $45 million.

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AUGUST 16, 2023

Racial exclusion from this nation's institutions of higher education has been the norm throughout the vast history of the U.S., and few institutions better represent that legacy of exclusion than the two institutions at the center of the ruling, Harvard University and the University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill.

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MARCH 3, 2023

It’s taken months of collaboration across institutions, but east Tennessee’s only Historically Black College and University (HBCU) is on track to regain accreditation. Knoxville College (KC), a private institution, lost its accreditation in 1997. Brown] believes in HBCUs, so he said yes. He knew how to guide the team.

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AUGUST 17, 2023

Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) are safe spaces for personal development. Attending HBCUs provide intentional, intrusive, and focused resources dedicated to its students’ academic success and mental well-being. Here’s further proof of the impact of HBCUs in the world. They still do. They still matter.

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JULY 13, 2023

In June, Head and Heart Philanthropy hosted its inaugural Presidential Cohort for HBCU Presidents at a two-day conference in New York, the first event held as part of two-year initiative centered around boosting sustainability and fiscal capacity for HBCUs. Many are second career. This is the genesis of something special,” said Artis.

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MARCH 7, 2024

Also, it is set to increase the number of HBCU graduates who participate in post-baccalaureate programs that facilitate opportunities to conduct independent research under the supervision of a faculty member, meet first-year graduate students, and participate in workshops that prepare them for application to Ph.D.

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AUGUST 28, 2023

HBCUs are currently enjoying their highest levels of cultural prominence in decades. It’s crucial for historically Black schools to understand these students if the HBCU boom is to be more than a blip. Social media can give these far-off students a taste of what HBCUs campuses look and feel like.

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AUGUST 28, 2023

Succession planning is paramount in Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) as it can play a critical role in preserving these institutions' legacy, values, and unique contributions. Succession planning plays a vital role in the long-term success and stability of the university.

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AUGUST 28, 2023

HBCUs are currently enjoying their highest levels of cultural prominence in decades. It’s crucial for historically Black schools to understand these students if the HBCU boom is to be more than a blip. Social media can give these far-off students a taste of what HBCUs campuses look and feel like.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 18, 2023

Over 1,000 HBCU college administrators, including 40 presidents of Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs), assembled in Atlanta this week to kick off the United Negro College Fund’s 2nd annual UNITE Summit for Black Educators. Last month’s U.S. Dr. Johnnetta B.

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MARCH 31, 2023

But experts believe that some institutions could be saved if their leaders were more open to a different option: merging with other schools before their circumstances grow desperate. A lot of institutions are coming to us well after they’ve run out of political, financial, and enrollment capital.

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JANUARY 17, 2023

What that quote means is, as an institution, if we don’t start to think about the future—if we’re not thinking about trends in higher education and in business, if we’re not looking at what our competitors are doing—we’ll fall far behind,” said Alexander. Discriminatory funding has deprived HBCUs of roughly $12.8

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MARCH 26, 2024

Jhenai Chandler The Postsecondary Student Success Act – a bipartisan effort that seeks to solidify the ongoing existence of the grant program, which gives funds to higher ed institutions striving towards improving student success, particularly for “high-need” students.

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NOVEMBER 22, 2023

This is a historic moment for our university and for HBCUs nationwide.” Texas State University, a Hispanic-serving institution (HSI), will also host a debate Sept. “We are honored and grateful to have been chosen as a host for a 2024 Presidential Debate,” said VSU President Dr. Makola M. 25, 2024.

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AUGUST 22, 2023

It is a matter of record that these institutions have prepared generations of students to actualize their capabilities, so they could contribute to the further development and enhancement of America and the world. Whether the predictions come true or not, these institutions need and deserve a path to sustainability.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Black voters ages 18-29 are showing skepticism about social media messaging and negative campaign advertisements, according to a new report from the Rutgers Center for Minority Serving Institutions ( CMSI ). HBCUs have shaped elections and the entire political landscape but are often ignored by researchers.

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JANUARY 20, 2024

Their point is that the students and graduates of HBCUs are inferior. Both Dr. King and Congressman Lewis were HBCU grads (Morehouse College and Fisk University, respectively) who consistently served as exemplars of the capacity developed, harnessed, and launched through an HBCU education. Again, magic happens.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 16, 2024

A 2022 report from the UCLA School of Law Williams Institute and the Point Foundation, an LGBTQ scholarship fund, noted that 32.6% Jorge Valencia Another report from the Williams Institute and the Point Foundation focuses on the experiences of community college students. of non-LGBTQ people. “The

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APRIL 7, 2023

The Colorado Community College System has announced transfer agreements with two historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs): Saint Augustine’s University and Texas Southern University.

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FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Ruth Simmons, the outgoing president of Prairie View A&M University (PVAMU), will become a senior adviser to the president of Harvard University on engagement with historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs), effective Jun. Harvard’s recognition that HBCUs have much to contribute is a welcome and timely message.”

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NOVEMBER 1, 2022

The burden of student loan debt limits future finances of graduates of historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs). Christelle Bamona HBCU graduates have an average debt of $32,373 after graduation, which is 19% higher than those at non-HBCUs. The report found that s tudent debt also limited career choice.

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JANUARY 26, 2023

About 30% of African American STEM professionals begin their higher education at a Historically Black College or University, according to the United Negro College Fund, but only around 1% of the Defense Department’s research funding is directed towards HBCUs and other minority serving institutions. This week, the U.S. Dr. Wayne A.

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OCTOBER 18, 2023

Google has strengthened its support to HBCUs through a long-standing partnership with the United Negro College Fund. This is on top of the 50 million already invested over the past few years to elevate talent and innovation at HBCUs across the nation. Williams. “We

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JANUARY 30, 2024

Antioch University, Bard College, Cuyahoga Community College, and Elizabethtown College will host the newest centers, bringing the total of TRHT partner institutions to 71. TRHT Campus Centers comprise community colleges, liberal arts colleges, HBCUs, minority-serving institutions, faith-based institutions, and large research universities.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

In all of the recent fundraising trainings I provide, I posit that HBCUs are literally “leaving money on the table” due to the lack of attention paid to cultivating individual donors and, over the course of a two-hour orientation training, I demonstrated how. Strategic engagement with these donors will give institutions a leg-up.

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FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Central State University—a historically Black institution in Wilberforce, Ohio—will announce its next permanent president Friday. I don’t have anything against a new person coming in, but it’s a shame that even HBCUs sometimes don’t know how to treat our own correctly. You expect this from the white schools, but we should do better.”

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