Taxpayer dollars are not--are meant to improve students' educational outcomes and experiences, not the salaries of additional staff and admi...
Historically Black colleges are an important and critical landscape to that of higher education.
One thing is clear, and that is the fight for colleges and universities who happen to be HBCUs is in desperate need for more persons to line...
I am hoping that--and perhaps it might be instructive to not just hope but to also signify or signal to college presidents all over the plac...
I just want to mention, because I have heard several of our speakers talk about not being able to find students of color, African American s...
I do want to talk a little bit about the research institutions, and so Dr. Baskerville, of the 131 schools that are classified as research 1...
Let me just remind you that, prior to 1976, for the previous 100 years, from 1876, it was just the reverse.
I think that it is important for us to pay attention to this whole notion of research dollars.
We need them more than ever. We see what they are doing with woefully low investments.
I am going to yield back.
HBCUs are not like MSIs, and they have a history, a special relationship that the United States continues to acknowledge.
A significant piece of legislation I introduced in this Congress, H.R. 3294, the IGNITE HBCU Excellence Act, which really has support from c...
It is no secret, Madam Chair, that I am passionate about HBCUs.
HBCUs believe in diversity of thought, race, ethnicity, creed, and the entire gamut of diversity.
We must preserve and protect HBCUs for the sake of the next generation of change-makers and for those yet unborn.
As is often the case, more money is not the answer and does not address the underlying problems facing HBCUs.
I can feel your passion. And I just want to thank you very much for all that you do for the underserved communities all across the country.
We are the only industrialized nation with a maternal mortality rate that is on the rise.
