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June 24, 2021 ENGAGING UNDERSERVED COMMUNITIES

Prepared: Value of : Data, Products & Use Conference 2

INTRODUCTION Hello!

Ed Smith-Lewis Executive Director, Institute for Capacity Building UNCF UNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND (UNCF) HBCUs, PBIs, and minority students are at the heart of UNCF’s mission and priorities

THE POWER OF THE NETWORK: UNCF BY THE NUMBERS activated network of leaders Since 1944, UNCF administers direct dedicated to elevating the voice of support to 37 member institutions, and our community and empowering has raised over $5B to advance institutions through and minority education. data, collaboration, and agility UNCF is the largest scholarship provider, outside the federal government, We envision a society where HBCUs:

awarding close to 10,000 scholarships • Are seen, valued, and supported for their innovation ($100M) annually. and ability to serve Black and minority populations. SINCE ITS UNCF scholarship recipients have a 70% • Strengthen their academic and business models to INCEPTION, improve student outcomes. 6-year graduate rate which is nearly 2x UNCF HAS the rate of Black students nationwide. • Empower each other as partners and collaborators in RAISED OVER the success of Black students. $5 BILLION Source: UNCF 2018 Annual Report & 2019 Fact Sheet IN FUNDING INSTITUTE FOR CAPACITY BUILDING (ICB) Founded in 2006, UNCF’s Institute for Capacity Building works with partners to build capacity at institutions through a network improvement approach Network Improvement Approach The success of the network as a whole depends on the success of each partner institution. And so, we are focusing In a network improvement approach, we help share knowledge and best on three core principles: practices of our partner institutions so everyone can learn and benefit

Capacity sharing 1 Providing Programs and Services Training and Comprehensive Development Institutional Support Provide programs and services by partnering with institutions on strategies to improve their efficiency and effectiveness at servingstudents

2 Building Capacity Prioritize activities that build the capacity of our partner institutions to provide high-quality educational experiences for their students and UNCF

3 Ensuring Self-Sustainability Peer-to-peer sharing Ongoing analysis and learning and assessment Ensure self-sustainable operations through grant-funded, sponsored, or Sustained revenue-generating activities (including safeguarding unrelated business Partnerships taxable income)

4 THE EFFECTIVENESS OF HBCUS HBCUs are highly effective at serving excluded populations and overproduce relative to their better-resourced counterparts Many of the 300,000 students who attend HBCUs annually come from excluded communities and may not have gone to college if not for HBCUs’ unique, supportive environments.

Differential Student Populations HBCUs Punch Above Their Weight Social Mobility Comparing HBCUs and their peers Comparing HBCUs and their peers Although HBCUs account for 3% of all higher HBCUs enroll HBCU graduates are education institutions in the US, they… 2.1x more 51% more likely Pell-eligible (low-income) students to move into a higher income quintile 60% 2.1x 50% 53% +51% Non-HBCUs 35% 40% 30% 35% 20% Enroll 10% of Award 17% of Award 24% of HBCUs 75% 10% Black students bachelor STEM bachelor 0% 0% 20% 40% 60% 80% enrolled in degrees to degrees to HBCUs Non-HBCUs college Black students Black students % of students that are Pell-eligible % of students moving into higher income quintile HBCUs All colleges and universities

Source: UNCF; Moving Upward and Onward: Income Mobility at Historically Black Colleges and Universities, Nathansen et. al 2019; UNCF. Frederick D. Patterson Research Institute, HBCUs Punching Above Their Weight 5

BIG DATA Data is the currency of the future and the backbone of what and how society operates today…

Cryptocurrency

Block Chain

Big Data

Internet of Things BIG DATA

..but is it also contributing to increased inequity?

Growth in Data Production Growth in income disparity Total Zettabytes Total Gini Coefficient (1967-2018) 9

INEQUITY Within the context of the Black community, leveraging the power of big data becomes a necessary next frontier

Educational Unemployment Incarceration Wages and Income Wealth Health Attainment

The college The unemployment The incarceration The median household The median household The infant mortality completion rate for rate for rate for income for Black wealth for rate for Black people was/is Black people was/is Black people was/is people was/is Black people was/is Black people was/is 56% 1.8x 5.4x 1.7x 7.1x 1.9x 1960s less higher more less less more 54% 2.3x 6.4x 1.6x 9.8x 2.3x Today less higher more less less more

than white people “ ” “ ” “ ” “ ” “ ”

Source: Economic Policy Institute retrieved from https://www.epi.org/publication/50-years-after-the-kerner-commission/ 10

INEQUITY UNCF’s ICB has partnered with Excelencia and The Coleridge Initiative to catalyze a community of HBCUs and HSIs to leverage big data

Leveraging Big Data to Achieve Equity 11 Leveraging Big Data to Achieve Equity, is designed to accomplish two complimentary objectives

1 2 Enhance the research Provide HBCUs and HSIs and capacity of HBCUs and HSIs their faculty with guided to inform the advancement training and capacity of Black and brown building to enable populations in production of critical postsecondary education research with confidential across the college to career microdata pipeline 12

We hope that our pilot program becomes a model for engaging and advancing the use of big data in underserved communities

Access Support Partnerships Community-driven Acknowledgement to funds, systems, for capacity and to build within agendas that to uplift and share and technology capability building community networks prioritize lived new perspectives experiences 13

CONCLUSION Thank you!

Ed Smith-Lewis Executive Director, Institute for Capacity Building UNCF