Optimism over Biden’s agenda for historically black universities

There is growing optimism that the long-standing disparity in research funding between historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) and white institutions in the United States may change under a Biden administration, writes Kery Murakami for Inside Higher Ed.

President-elect Joe Biden, in the higher education plan he released during the presidential campaign, included spending US$20 billion to help HBCUs and other minority-serving institutions catch up on having the state-of-the-art research facilities they need to compete with the larger institutions, as well as another US$10 billion to create centres of excellence at colleges whose main focus is on educating students of colour.

Biden pledged, as well, to require his agencies to examine whether there has been a disparity in the amount of grants and contracts they’ve given HBCUs and other institutions serving minorities, and then to fix it.
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