Tuskegee University President Mark Brown highlighted the importance of federal investments, such as Pell Grants, to students’ success in higher education during a hearing Wednesday.Brown appeared before the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee alongside other higher education leaders. He discussed his perspective from a Historically Black College and University on the current state of higher education.Brown is the first alumnus of Tuskegee University to lead the school. He noted how the impact of HBCUs, like Tuskegee, expands beyond the small percentage of the universities they represent in the United States.
