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Transcripts For CSPAN2 Congressional 20240703

Pleasure of serving as congresswoman alma adams first legislative director and help get the hbcu caucus started and amazing to see all that the congresswoman and staff have done since then. Today you all are joining us for a really important conversation about the ways at that government, philanthropy and business can support our hbcus and sustaining them into the future and with that im going to invite the congresswoman up to get us started. [applause] good afternoon. Good afternoon. Im still hbcu strong. Thank you all for being here today and thank you shaniqua and thank you all for joining us. Im congresswoman alma adams and it is my pleasure to represent the 12th Congressional District in North Carolina, charlotte, mecklenburg, and cabarras county. Give it up for the queen city. [applause] i want to thank especially our same guests who will participate on todays h ....

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Transcripts For CSPAN2 Congressional 20240703

In North Carolina, charlotte. A special yeah. Give it up to the queen city. I want to thank especially our esteemed guests. I would lick to thank the members of the first bipartisan here. When i started 8 years ago, i had no idea that we would grow to have more than 100 members but now 8 years in i know that the strength is a strength of how much support we had. Last year we were about to get ignite funding for hbcu through appropriations. Because of the work that we did, 50 million in grants are available to our schools. All right. [applause] make transformative investment and, of course, this includes research productivity, fact ultimatey expertise, graduate programs. Human capital leading to external funding. The investments made in our schools today in investment in the future and so i just yaws myself as an example. I am a living testament for importance of hbcu. My mother raised me. She did domestic work. She was not formall ....

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