20+ Years

Our HBCU History

  • Capacity Building
  • Funding Support

In Title III of the Higher Education Act of 1965, Congress officially identified the principal characteristics of an HBCU as, among other things, (1) an institution whose principal mission was and is the education of black Americans, (2) an accredited institution whose principal mission was and is the education of African Americans, and (3) an institution of higher learning that was established before 1964.

FY 2011 (Estimated)
  • Discretionary funding:
  • Number of continuation awards: 96
  • Average continuation award: $2,468,657
  • Total continuation award funding: $236,991,068
  • Mandatory funding:
  • Number of new awards: 96
  • Average new award: $885,000
  • Total new award funding: $85,000,000
  • Total award funding: $321,991,068
  • Discretionary (Section 323): $236,991,068
  • Mandatory (Section 371): $85,000,000
FY 2010 (Estimated)
  • Discretionary funding:
  • Number of continuation awards: 96
  • Average continuation award: $2,777,000
  • Total continuation award funding: $266,586,000
  • Mandatory funding:
  • Number of new awards: 96
  • Average new award: $885,000
  • Total new award funding: $85,000,000
  • Total award funding: $351,586,000
  • Discretionary (Section 323): $266,586,000
  • Mandatory (Section 371): $85,000,000
FY 2009 (Estimated)
  • Number of New Awards: 0
  • Number of Continuation Awards:
  • 96 HBCU’s / HBGI’s 19
  • Average Continuation Award:
  • $2,480,000 HBCU’s
  • $3,161,000 HBGI’s
  • Total Continuation Award Funding:
  • $238,095,000 HBCU’s
  • $58,500,000 HBGI’s
FY 2008 (Estimated)
  • Number of New Awards: 0
  • Number of Continuation Awards: 96 HBCU’s / HBGI”s 18
  • Average Continuation Award: $2,480,000 HBCU’s / $3,161,000 HBGI’s
  • Total Continuation Award Funding: $238,095,000 HBCU’s / $56,903,000 HBGI’s
  • College Cost Reduction and Access Act (CCRAA)
  • Number of New Awards: 96
  • Average New Award: $885,000
  • Total New Award Funding: $85,000,000
  • Total Award Funding: $323,095,000
  • Discretionary: $238,095,000; Mandatory: $85,000,000
FY 2007
  • Number of New Awards: 97 HBCU’s / 5 HBGI’s
  • Average New Award: $2,455,000 HBCU’s / $5,270,000 HBGI’s
  • Total New Award Funding: $238,095,000 / $26,350,000 HBGI’s
  • Number of Continuation Awards: 0 HBCU’s / 13 HBGI’s
  • Average Continuation Award: $2,428,000 HBGI’s
  • Total Continuation Award Funding: $31,565,000 HBGI’s
  • Total Award Funding: $57,915,000 HBGI’s
  • Total Number of Awards: 18 HBGI’s

Funding Status – Appropriations

◇ FY 2006: $238,095,000 / FY 2005: $238,576,000 / FY 2004: $275,863,744 / FY 2003: $214,015,000 / FY 2002: $206,000,000 / FY 2001: $185,000,000 FY 2005 Estimated Average Award: $2,459,546 (source: www.ed.gov/ )

◇ Note: Funds are appropriated separately for Strengthening Historically Black Colleges and Universities and Strengthening Historically Black Graduate Institutions. In FY 2006, HBCUs received $238,095,000 and HBGIs received $57,915,000.

◇ Note: This is a noncompetitive discretionary grant program — grants are distributed by formula to eligible institutions. The Department is not bound by any estimates in this notice Title III, Part B of the Higher Education Act also includes the Strengthening Historically Black Graduate Institutions Program

Mission

◇ Title III program legislation promotes a certain degree of competition for additional funding among the eligible Title III Schools; and Whereas, competition places limits on open dialogue among the Schools, which hinders forward movement into the mainstream of American Higher Education.

◇ To encourage and facilitate an open dialogue among Title III eligible Schools as they work together to quantify the legislative intent of Title III program legislation thereby strengthening the resource development capacity of Historically Black Colleges and Universities in order to move them into the mainstream of American Higher Education.

  • 1) To organize and develop the administrative management structure of the organization.
  • 1.1 Develop by-laws
  • 1.2 Incorporate
  • 1.3 Obtain non-profit status
  • 1.4 Develop long term goals and objectives
  • 2) To provide ready access to resource development materials
  • 2.1 HBCU Administrators web site
  • 2.2 Annual Technical assistance workshops
  • 3) To quantify a common set of performance indicators among the schools.

Goals

  • 1) To organize and develop the administrative management structure of the organization.
  • 1.1 Develop by-laws
  • 1.2 Incorporate
  • 1.3 Obtain non-profit status
  • 1.4 Develop long term goals and objectives

III

  • 2) To provide ready access to resource development materials
  • 2.1 HBCU Administrators web site
  • 2.2 Annual Technical assistance workshops
  • 3) To quantify a common set of performance indicators among the schools.
  • 2.1 HBCU Administrators web site
  • 2.2 Annual Technical assistance workshops
  • 3) To quantify a common set of performance indicators among the schools.
  • 3.1 Develop a common set of performance indicators
  • 3.2 Develop a mechanism for tracking quantifiable and qualifiable results among the schools

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