The U.S. Department of Education announced today that it is awarding grants to eight Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) under the Augustus F. Hawkins Centers of Excellence Program (Hawkins) and the Minority Science and Engineering Improvement Program (MSEIP).

Hello Philadelphia! Hello HBCU family! Thank you, Sierra, for the kind introduction. Let’s give it up for all the White House HBCU Scholars here today. It’s great to be here in the City of Brotherly Love. The 46th President of the United States is on his way, but first let me first thank our White House Initiative on HBCUs – led by the incomparable Dr. Dietra Trent – for assembling another stellar conference.

By: Gabriel O. Bermea  Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSIs) are colleges and universities where at least 25% of the undergraduate full-time student population is Hispanic. HSIs make up about 20% of all higher education institutions in the United States, yet they enroll 63% of today’s Latino undergraduate students (Santiago, Arroyo, & Cuellarsola, 2024). As a result, HSIs

By: Por Gabriel O. Bermea   Las instituciones que brindan servicios a los hispanos (HSI, por sus siglas en inglés) son universidades donde al menos el 25% de la población estudiantil a tiempo completo de pregrado es hispana. Las HSI representan alrededor del 20% de todas las instituciones de educación superior en los Estados Unidos,