We deeply mourn the passing of our nation’s 39th President, Jimmy Carter.
President Carter was a true advocate for higher education and historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs).
He was the first U.S. president to issue an executive order focusing on historically Black colleges and universities. Executive Order 12232 directed the Secretary of the U.S. Department of Education “to implement a federal initiative designed to achieve a significant increase in the I participation by historically Black colleges and universities in federally sponsored programs.” The order specified that “… initiative shall seek to identify, reduce and eliminate barriers which may have unfairly resulted in reduced participation in, and reduced benefits from, federally sponsored programs.”
Every president has followed with an executive order on HBCUs since President Carter issued his in 1980.
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