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The legislation builds upon President Trump’s executive order by requiring agencies to submit annual plans to Congress detailing how each applicable agency intends to strengthen the capacity of HBCUs to participate in federal grants, contracts, or cooperative agreements.

Title III funding is of critical importance for the sustainability and growth of HBCUs. Such funding provides necessary financial assistance to HBCUs for the repair, replacement or enhancement our respective institution’s physical plants, ensuring financial stability, improving academic expertise and instruction and otherwise building institutional capacity.

A Government Accountability Office report last year found that colleges easily game standards applying to loan default rates. Policy shops and lawmakers, meanwhile, have spent years debating the right approach about the degree to which institutions should be on the hook for poor results on student loans.

NBA Cares works with internationally recognized youth-serving programs that support education, youth and family development, and health-related causes, including: Thurgood Marshall College Fund, Special Olympics, YMCA of the USA, Boys & Girls Clubs of America, UNICEF, the Make-A-Wish Foundation, Share Our Strength and GLSEN.

“TMCF is proud to identify talent from our nation’s publicly-supported Historically Black Colleges and Universities and Predominantly Black Institutions to learn, engage and make a positive impact in such a critically important policy area.”

HBCUs, a common acronym for the institutions, is a crucial albeit often overlooked part of our country’s history. Some, like Cheyney, were founded before the Civil War. But the vast majority of HBCUs were founded after the war’s end to educate the millions of freed African-Americans.

For McDonald’s and its independent franchisees, core soft skills like teamwork, customer service and responsibility are vitally important to the work in McDonald’s restaurants. And, as a brand that gives many young people their first jobs every year, we know these skills are especially important to those just starting out.

It also has a range of recruitment efforts to attract employees of different backgrounds. One unique program is Moguls in the Making, a collaboration with rapper Big Sean and his foundation and the Thurgood Marshall College Fund. It’s a competition that “aims to prepare and empower young black entrepreneurs,” said Reggie Willis, senior director of diversity and inclusion at Ally.

Theodore (Ted) Colbert, CIO of The Boeing Company, won the Digital Innovation Award at the ITSMF Technology Achievement ceremony on Friday in Atlanta, GA. Currently, he serves as a member of the Board of Directors for The Thurgood Marshall College Fund.

TMCF appreciates the Congress’ efforts to increase funding, since 2017, for key HBCU programs such as Title III Strengthening HBCU and HBGI programs, the Department of Defense’s HBCU Minority Serving Institutions Program and most recently, reauthorizing the HBCU Historic Preservation program.

Listen to our President and CEO, Harry L. Williams, interview with HBCU Nation as he talks about the 2019 HBCU Fly-In, the announcement of Terrence J as National Ambassador for TMCF, and much more.

The Act Reauthorizes the HBCU Historic Preservation Program. The Natural Resources Management Act includes language to reauthorize the Historically Black College and University (HBCU) Historic Preservation program within the U.S. Department of Interior from fiscal years (FY) 2019 through FY 2025.

Given the financial burden many students bear paying for college, schools should be intentional about financial support that helps students not just gain access, but persist, said Brown.

Out of over 500 applicants, TMCF selected 50 students from 10 HBCUs to compete in the weekend-long challenge. In addition to hearing from Ally CEO Jeff Brown, the students will participate in mentoring sessions, hear from local business leaders, and attend financial education classes.

The annual TMCF event for member-school presidents and chancellors will include sessions on the TMCF value proposition, HBCU sustainability, capital financing for HBCUs, capacity building opportunities, and the advocacy agenda for the new 116th Congress.

The problems are most pronounced at historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs), which have been plagued by years of slow growth, and more recently, declines in enrollment.

Engaging with presidents and chancellors from TMCF’s 47-member institutions on issues of HBCU sustainability and competitiveness, the junior senator from California noted the influence her experience at her alma mater Howard University had on her life.

HBCU chiefs are pushing for support for their schools on the Hill during their annual fly-in.