A Brief History of Historically Black Colleges and Universities
The first Morrill Act was passed in 1862, and established land-grant funding for a number of agricultural and engineering colleges throughout the United States. Federal lands were given to individual states according to the number of representatives the state had in Congress. The lands were to be used solely for the establishment of colleges. The Act originally contained a clause prohibiting any allocation of federal lands to the Confederate states, but was altered to include those states at the conclusion of the Civil War. The second Morrill Land-Grant of 1890 was the first effective piece of legislation to explicitly provide for the admission of black students. The second Morrill Act required states to abandon the use of race as a basis for admission into land-grant institutions, or to maintain a separate institution for the education of black students. Sixteen institutions dedicated to the education of black students were created around this time using land-grant funding. Read the rest of this entry »
African-American History Month Scholarship Funds Focus
In recognition of African-American History Month, we would like to highlight a few of the many organizations working to create a better future by providing students with higher education opportunities:
The United Negro College Fund “A mind is a terrible thing to waste.”
The United Negro College Fund administers over 400 scholarship and internship programs at its 39 member colleges. Each year, the UNCF provides financial assistance to over 60,000 college students to help further their education. The organization hosts an annual Evening with the Stars, which is the nation’s largest televised fundraiser for minority education. The event has raised upwards of $200 million dollars to date. Two of the fund’s key programs are the Gates Millennium Scholars Program and the UNCF-Merck Science Initiative. Read the rest of this entry »
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