VA efforts to advance Historically Black Colleges and Universities

VA supports HBCUs and students Veteran Affairs’ plan for aiding Historically VA uses its experience with healthcare and resources as a large government agency to Black Colleges and Universities provide a wide range of services for HBCUs to try to address the wide range of challenges they face. Many HBCUs face increasingly significant challenges. VA believes Support for institutions in HBCUs’ mission and impact, and is building its support for • In coordination with the VHA Office of Academic Affiliations, Atlanta, Orlando, HBCUs. Washington DC, Wilkes Barre and the Valley Health System provided grants to HBCUs totaling $3,767,562 in direct funds and $2,816,655 in indirect funds in Challenges confronting HBCUs FY20175 A confluence of economics, academic, and policy changes are jeopardizing the future sustainability of many HBCUs. HBCUs are particularly impacted HBCUs matter • Partners with HBCUs through VA Acquisition Academy to develop acquisition-based For decades, HBCUs were the by these changes because they depend more on public funding. Many curriculum to prepare graduates for Federal acquisition careers HBCUs now face: only higher education option for • Declining enrollment and they remain important doors to • Connects 75% of VA medical facilities to a local HBCU, through a pilot geographic • Reduced state and federal funding mapping program5 • Obsolete business models opportunity otherwise closed to • Inadequate financial support from alumni many people: • Intercollegiate athletic scandals Support for individuals • A dearth of future leadership talent • 70% of HBCU students qualify for need-based Pell Grants, • Arranged 362 internship opportunities for reserved for students whose families make less than medical, dental, and other students at VA $50,000 per year.2 facilities in FY20175 • Arranged onsite visits from VA leaders to • HBCUs represent only 3% of colleges in the US, but produce meet with students and discuss career 20% of African-American development graduates.3 • HBCUs are responsible for VA will continue building its support producing 17% of ALL health VA is committed to continue supporting profession degrees earned by HBCUs, believing HBCUs are important for the African-American graduates.4 country and an important source of diverse talent for the agency. • A full quarter of HBCUs across Executive Order 13779 our nation have at least a 20% • Expand the geo-mapping pilot to connect On February 27, 2017, President non-Black student body6 63% Trump signed an Executive Order 100% of VA medical facilities to HBCUs creating an interagency working group focusing on HBCUs and • Improve data tracking of key metrics at ordered any government agency HBCUs and possible areas for future regularly interacting with HBCUs engagement Percentage of HBCUs that to develop annual plans to HBCUs by the numbers strengthen the capacity of HBCUs. Total institutions: 104 1. • Extend Graduate Medical Education programs in rural and underserved areas, reaching may face closure by 2035 Total enrollment : 293,000 more HBCUs (66 HBCUs out of 104)

1 http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/sns-tns-bc-cmp-black-colleges-20180218-story.html • Apply advanced data analytics to identify the most at-risk HBCUs and allocate additional 2:http://www.miamiherald.com/news/politics-government/article148919689.html resources to those locations 3:http://www.businessinsider.com/hbcus-may-be-more-in-danger-of-closing-than-other-schools-2015-3 4:https://www.newamerica.org/post-secondary-national-policy-institute/our-blog/historically-black-colleges-and-universities-hbcus/ 5:Department of Veteran Affairs fiscal year 2018 Annual Agency Plan For more info, contact Karen M. Basnight, [email protected] at the VA Office of Diversity & Inclusion 6:https://www.tmcf.org/about-us/our-schools/hbcus

Office of Diversity & Inclusion Office of Resolution Management Historically Black Colleges and Universities by State

Alabama Georgia Missouri Tennessee A & M University Harris-Stowe State University Tennessee State University Fort Valley State University Lincoln University of Missouri Bishop State Community College Savannah State University Concordia College North Carolina Gadsden State Community College Interdenominational Theological Center Barber-Scotia College J. F. Drake State Technical College LeMoyne-Owen College Lawson State Community College Elizabeth City State University Fayetteville State University Selma Johnson C. Smith University Huston-Tillotson University Shelton State Community College Tuscaloosa North Carolina A&T State University Prairie View A&M University Kentucky State University North Carolina Central University Simmons College of Kentucky Winston Salem State University St. Philip’s College Trenholm State Technical College St. Augustine’s College Southwestern Christian College Louisiana Texas Arkansas Grambling State University Ohio Southern University and A&M College Virginia Southern University at New Orleans University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff Southern University at Shreveport Virginia State University Xavier University of Louisiana Oklahoma California Saint Paul’s College Charles of Medicine & Science Maryland Virginia Pennsylvania Virginia Delaware Cheyney University of Pennsylvania Delaware State University Lincoln University West Virginia West Virginia State University District of Columbia Virgin Islands University of the District of Columbia Coahoma Community College University of the Virgin Islands -Utica Clinton Junior College University of the Virgins Islands - Kingshill Florida Denmark Technical College Florida A&M University Mississippi Valley State University South Carolina State University Classification Key: Florida Memorial University Indicates institution offers a full medical program Bethune-Cookman University Indicates institution offers a nursing program

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