FACT SHEET: Biden-Harris Administration Announces $1.3 Billion in Additional Funding and a Record of Over $17 Billion in Total Support for Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) | The White House

Biden-Harris Administration announces $1.3 billion in federal investments in Historically Black Colleges and Universities.

HBCUs provide college access to twice as many Pell Grant-eligible low- and middle- income students as non-HBCU institutions.

New research by the UNCF finds that HBCU .

generate $16.5 billion annually in economic impact on communities across the United States .

The Department of Commerce CHIPS for America hosted the launch of the HBCU CHIPS Network , a collaboration of several HBCUs and the Georgia Institute of Technology .

Agriculture announced a $262.5 million investment to support 33 projects across U.S. institutions of higher education designed to train the next generation of diverse agricultural professionals.

The funding will build capacity of HBCUs to conduct Black maternal health research to fully understand and address the root causes of disparities in maternal mortality, severe maternal morbidity, and maternal health outcomes.

NIH funding included endowment awards to strengthen the research infrastructure of the HBCU award recipients to conduct minority health and health disparities research.