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  • Enhancing Predominantly Black Institutions
  • October 2, 2011
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Feds award $24.6 million for enhancing predominantly Black institutions

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Harford County Education Headlines Examiner

On Friday, U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan announced the award of $24,601,758 to 62 colleges to enhance their capacity to serve low and middle-income African American students.  Two Md. institutions of higher learning are among the grant recipients.

"These grants will help build the capacity of colleges that educate large numbers of African American students," Duncan said, "Strengthening these schools is critically important to increasing student completion and meeting President Obama's goal of being first in the world in college graduates by 2020."

Colleges are receiving funds under two programs that both support predominantly black institutions with an undergraduate enrollment that is at least 40 percent African American and at least 50 percent low-income or first-generation college students.

The first is a formula grant program, which awarded $9,601,758 to 35 schools in 14 states. The funds will be used for a wide range of projects that include academic instruction in disciplines in which Black Americans are underrepresented; tutoring; counseling service programs designed to improve student success; upgrading libraries, laboratories, and other instructional facilities, and establishing or enhancing a teacher education program, to name a few. These grants are funded for five years.

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The other is a competitive grant program, which awarded $15,000,000 for 27 four-year grants to schools in 12 states. Funds in this program are used to establish or strengthen programs in specific areas: STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics); health education; internationalization; teacher preparation, and improving educational outcomes for African American males.

Special congratulations to Maryland’s Baltimore City Community College (BCCC) and Sojourner-Douglass College - each of which received significant grant awards under these programs.

FY 2011 Predominantly Black Institutions Awards—Formula Grant Program

             Baltimore, Maryland
 
Grantee: Baltimore City Community College
Year One Funding: $250,000
 
Grantee: Sojourner-Douglass College
Year One Funding: $250,000
 
FY 2011 Predominantly Black Institutions Program Awards—Competitive Grants
 
              Baltimore, Maryland
 
Grantee: Baltimore City Community College
Year One Funding: $600,000
 
Grantee: Sojourner-Douglass College
Year One Funding: $599,998
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Colleges are receiving funds under two programs that both support predominantly black institutions with an undergraduate enrollment that is at least 40% African American and at least 50% low-income or first-generation college students.
Colleges are receiving funds under two programs that both support predominantly black institutions with an undergraduate enrollment that is at least 40% African American and at least 50% low-income or first-generation college students.
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1) BCCC, 2) Sojourner-Douglass College

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