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UNCF Achieves “Transformational Outcomes” for HBCUs, Inspired by Black Voices Cut Short Final efforts, spurred by UNCF convincing Congress of racial inequality in country, can turn institutions around, relieve debt in bleak COVID period WASHINGTON, Dec. 21, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Today, Congress released details of the FY 2021 appropriations bills and the coronavirus relief stimulus.  After much lobbying by the United Negro College Fund (UNCF) on behalf of all Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) and the students they serve, the following items, among others, are inclu...

POLITICO Congress clinches deal to restore Pell grants for prisoners 26 years after ban The compromise also includes language to simplify the application for federal financial aid and grant more than $1 billion in loan forgiveness for HBCUs. Rep. Bobby Scott called the deal a "significant step" toward making "federal grants and loans more accessible and more generous, particularly for our most vulnerable students." | Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images Updated: Link Copied Congressional leaders have struck a deal to reinstate Pell grants for incarcerated students more than a quarter century a...

How Trump Made a Tiny Christian College the Nation’s Biggest Prison Educator His administration has funneled $30 million to Ashland University in Ohio. Critics say the school’s tablet-based program fails incarcerated students. Juan Bernabeu for The Marshall Project Six years ago, Ashland University, a small Christian college in the north-central region of Ohio known as the “Buckeye Bible Belt,” was in trouble. The school was $70 million in debt, was given a “junk” rating by the investors’ service Moody’s, and was later cited by state officials for transcript manipu...