Leveling the playing field for faith-based HBCUs
Education | Trump opens funding to religious schools, citing recent Supreme Court decisions
by Mary Jackson
Posted 9/18/19, 03:05 pm
Despite comprising only 3 percent of the nation’s four-year colleges, historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) have produced 80 percent of the country’s African American judges, 50 percent of its African American doctors, and 27 percent of African Americans with STEM degrees, according to the Department of Education. Until last week, the federal government excluded more than 40 HBCUs that are faith-based from a program that loans out money for campus improvements.