A new report details how historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) have continued to provide opportunities of upward mobility for Black Americans even as they remain woefully underfunded compared to predominantly white institutions (PWIs).
The United Negro College Fund (UNCF) released its 2024 HBCU Economic Impact Report — Transforming Futures: The Economic Engine of HBCUs — Thursday, providing data about the economic power, policy reform and partnerships needed to ensure these universities and colleges receive funding and support to continue operating.
“Historically Black colleges and universities have been underfunded since their inception, and all you have to do is look at how they were founded,” said Lodriguez Murray, the senior vice president for public policy and government affairs at UNCF. (READ MORE)
