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http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2015/01/30/white-house-recognizes-hbcu-leaders-who-are-champions-change-advancing-college-compl
This Black History Month, the White House will recognize faculty and staff members at Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) that drive the college completion agenda. These leaders work with students, families, higher education leaders, and policymakers to build paths to graduation.
To reach President Obama’s goal of helping our nation lead the world in college completion by 2020, we must ensure that more African American students graduate from college. Currently, the college graduation rate for African American students is 34.3 percent, compared to 47.1 percent for Asian students, 46.2 percent for white students, and 41.05 percent for Hispanic students (National Center for Education Statistics, 2015).
HBCUs meet the challenge. Innovative strategies and visionary leadership can advance college completion among African American students. For more than a century, HBCUs have been exemplars in producing African American college graduates who lead their fields
One out of every three (33 percent) of the nation’s African American engineers graduated from 1 of 11 HBCUs: Alabama A&M University; Florida A&M University; Hampton University; Howard University; Jackson State University; Morgan State University; North Carolina A&T State University; Prairie View A&M University; Southern University and A&M College; Tennessee State University; and Tuskegee University
This Black History Month, the White House will recognize faculty and staff members at Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) that drive the college completion agenda. These leaders work with students, families, higher education leaders, and policymakers to build paths to graduation.
To reach President Obama’s goal of helping our nation lead the world in college completion by 2020, we must ensure that more African American students graduate from college. Currently, the college graduation rate for African American students is 34.3 percent, compared to 47.1 percent for Asian students, 46.2 percent for white students, and 41.05 percent for Hispanic students (National Center for Education Statistics, 2015).
HBCUs meet the challenge. Innovative strategies and visionary leadership can advance college completion among African American students. For more than a century, HBCUs have been exemplars in producing African American college graduates who lead their fields
One out of every three (33 percent) of the nation’s African American engineers graduated from 1 of 11 HBCUs: Alabama A&M University; Florida A&M University; Hampton University; Howard University; Jackson State University; Morgan State University; North Carolina A&T State University; Prairie View A&M University; Southern University and A&M College; Tennessee State University; and Tuskegee University
