Minority-Serving Institutions Join Forces to Seek Change
By Charles Dervarics
In an effort to promote mutual goals, leaders of Black colleges, Hispanic-serving institutions and tribal colleges are endorsing an ambitious agenda that includes a doubling of the maximum Pell grant and new incentives to promote student enrollment in math, science, teaching and other high-demand specialties.
With the Higher Education Act (HEA) up for renewal, leaders of the three organizations are finding common ground on issues that affect all minority-serving institutions. The leaders developed the agenda through their work with the Alliance for Equity in Higher Education, created in 1999 to spur coordination among minority-serving colleges and universities.
