The President Joe Biden's US families plan, is a game change for community universities and minority service institutions, campus leaders say. The $ 1.8 billion plan, he proposed on Wednesday, could present an unexpected gain of the institutions that serve the students most affected by the Covid-19 pandemic.
The plan is an opportunity opportunity bag for open access institutions. He dedicates $ 109 billion for two years from Free Community College and $ 39 billion for two years of registration in minority service institutions for students with a family income of less than $ 125,000. It also invests $ 62 billion for "completion and retention activities in colleges and universities that serve high amounts of low-income students" and assigns $ 80 billion to increase the maximum pell subsidy for $ 1,400 per student.
biden has "really gone big, I mean, really," said Walter Kimbrough, president of the University of Dillard, a historically black institution in New Orleans. In his 17 years serving as a university president, Kimbrough said he has not seen a proposal from a president who invests in both minority service institutions, especially HBCUS. jQuery (Document) .Ready (function () var cutsubmit; jQuery ('# block-block-block-181. Popopular-Link'). Click (Function (), Utsubmit = jQuery (this) .attr ("Href"); ga ('send', 'event', 'in -paño popular at this moment', 'in the article', the subdijo););); .Panel-panel. Most popular margin: 1em 0 2EM; Filling of titlePopular: 0; Bottom filling: 8px; Borders: 2px solid # EF7521; Color: # 000; Width: 100%; Source size: 18px; Source weight: 500; Transformation of text: capital letters; Text-aligned: left; Bottom margin: 18px; Top margin: 14px; . Size of FontPopular-Article: 16px; Height of the line: 20px; Fill: 0! Important; Lower margin: 12px; Source weight: 500; .Popular-item: HoverBackground: #eee; Popular
"is really making some strong statements On the value of education and investing in young people, "he said.
Higher education leaders were especially encouraged by the Biden Plan to boost the Peel Grant, even if the maximum amount of the Federal Financial Aid subsidy, currently $ 6,495, was not doubled as many They had expected.
Through HBCUS, approximately two thirds of students are eligible. Almost 75 percent of Dillard students are eligible.
The proposed financing in the Biden Plan comes at a time when the financial statement of minority service institutions that fight for a long time in general, and HBCUS in particular, is to get widespread attention. The public awareness of racial, economic and educational inequities has increased as part of the country's racial calculus since the murder of George Floyd. Political managers and philanthropists have moved to address these problems and support institutions that educate a large number of color students.
Congress allocated $ 1.05 billion in emergency aid to minority service institutions, with a little more than half of the financing go to HBCUS, as part of the law of the Law of Cures passed the Last year in response to the pandemic. These institutions also received a part of the stimulus funds of $ 12.2 billion that went to all colleges and universities.
Congress also approved the Future Law in 2019, which made $ 255 million permanent funds to minority service institutions, with around $ 85 million specifically assigned to HBCUS. Former President Trump had that he "saved" Hbcus signing the bill, but Kimbrough said Trump's support for HBCUS was "performative" and mainly about the brand.
Kimbrough said that the plan's plan of American families pays the signs of the HBCUS. deeper investment and is part of a broader moment in t
