The publication Inside Higher Ed reports that President Donald Trump has done nothing to help historically black colleges and universities after a highly publicized White House meeting in February with leaders of the institutions.
During the meeting, Trump promised his support for HBCUs would be an “absolute priority.”
It’s now August and his administration has not yet named a leader of the White House Initiative on Historically Black Colleges and Universities, which was launched under President Jimmy Carter.
The recently departed president of Morehouse College, John Silvanus Wilson, had headed up that office under President Barack Obama. There have been a series of short-term leaders in that office since.
Inside Higher Ed reports “this position was the focus of a heavily touted executive order on HBCUs that Trump signed in February” after hosting leaders of historically black colleges in the Oval Office. And naming an executive director for the initiative and making progress on moving (the office) into the White House (and away from the U.S. Department of Education),” was the step that could have shown Trump was serious about getting something done.
You can read the whole article at Inside Higher Ed.
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