Biden-Harris Administration Celebrates HBCUs – Historically Black Colleges And Universities

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Joe Biden And Kamela Harris

Last week, the Biden-Harris Administration celebrated the 2021 National Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) Week and the grounds fig of HBCU graduates moving connected behalf of the Administration. This follows a longstanding committedness from the President and Vice President to physique an Administration that genuinely looks similar America.

On Friday, September 3rd, President Biden signed a proclamation to admit September 5-11, 2021 arsenic National HBCU Week and an executive order establishing the White House Initiative connected Advancing Educational Equity, Opportunity, and Excellence done HBCUs (White House Initiative connected HBCUs), which volition make a government-wide attack to enactment the needs of HBCUs and the communities they serve.

The White House Initiative connected HBCUs hosted its yearly HBCU Week Conference connected September 7-10, which included a bid of events and opportunities for national agencies, backstage assemblage companies and philanthropic organizations to prosecute with HBCUs.

HBCU week highlights below:

Education Secretary Miguel Cardona and White House Senior Advisor Cedric Richmond, a postgraduate of Morehouse College, kicked off the National HBCU Week Conference with greetings from President Biden and sheet discussions.
President Biden named Tony Allen, President of Delaware State University, arsenic Chair of the President’s Board of Advisors connected HBCUs.
Vice President Harris visited Hampton University to circuit STEM acquisition facilities and stress the value of science, technology, engineering and mathematics arsenic fields of survey astatine HBCUs. The Vice President besides hosted a roundtable with students which was mean by Vincent Evans, Deputy Director of Public Engagement and a postgraduate of Florida A&M University.
Dr. Anthony Fauci and Dr. Cameron Webb hosted a roundtable with pupil leaders from Florida A&M University, Norfolk State University, Tennessee State University, Fort Valley State University, Southern University astatine New Orleans and Bowie State University astir the enactment they are doing to vaccinate their communities.
Karine Jean-Pierre, White House Principal Deputy Press Secretary, hosted press briefing with 20 pupil journalists from HBCUs crossed that country.
Trey Baker, Senior Advisor for Public Engagement and postgraduate of Tougaloo College, joined 1890 Land Grant Universities and WURD, the lone African American owned and operated speech vigor presumption successful Pennsylvania, to sermon the historical national backing HBCUs person received from the Biden-Harris Administration.

What they’re saying astir HBCU Week:

Black Entertainment Television: “President Joe Biden’s medication took factual steps this week to marque bully connected its committedness to enactment the nation’s historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs).”
Diverse Issues successful Higher Education: “In his pre-recorded appearance, Biden said his medication volition proceed to empower and prolong the implicit 100 HBCUs crossed the country.”
theGrio: “A Scholarship for Service programme operated by the Department of Homeland Security and the National Science Foundation (NFS) provides scholarships and stipends to students pursuing cybersecurity-related degrees successful speech for 2 years of national service.”
The Undefeated: “The Biden-Harris medication hopes different HBCUs volition heed the president’s latest enforcement bid and absorption connected backing and partnerships for acquisition probe and advancement that’s connected show astatine Hampton.”
Watch The Yard: ‘…the President’s Board of Advisors will, ‘advance the extremity of the HBCU Initiative, established by the Carter Administration, to summation the capableness of HBCUs to supply the highest-quality acquisition to its students and proceed serving arsenic engines of opportunity.’”