There is progress in the effort to fund historically Black colleges and universities in our state.
For Arkansas Representative French Hill, the state’s HBCUs play an important role and he is hoping to continue to help level the playing field.
As apart of Hill’s HBCU summit, he and four HBCU leaders in Arkansas met to discuss how the state can continue to add help.
Rep. Hill said the institutions are oftentimes under-resourced and for students like Daren Butler, seeing funding progress at the capitol is welcomed.
“Seeing the different representatives we have from industry to academia come together is a good sign that people are taking this issue seriously,” Butler said.
The HBCU summit initiative dates back to 2019, when Hill met with higher education leaders to discuss how more money can be given to these institutions to help students.
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