Harris-Stowe president reflects on Trump’s HBCU order, time in DC

But the Education Secretary is a member of Howard’s board of trustees, guaranteeing her a civil reception on campus.

Presidents of historically black colleges and universities welcomed recent outreach efforts by the Trump administration, but said the true test of that goodwill will come when the White House unveils its upcoming budget plan.

Previous reports have suggested that Tuesday’s executive order will move the White House Initiative on HBCUs from the Education Department into the White House, but other details about the order have not yet surfaced.

Most students who wind up at HBCUs don’t come from private or charter schools. Some of them chose to come to Washington over the objections of students and alumni, saying they can ill afford to play politics while Trump moves quickly to set priorities.

Most research shows that vouchers and charter schools don’t improve the academic fortunes of those students, but also because public schools tend to be major recruiting grounds for HBCUs.

This is verifiably untrue. The President, who trotted out his Jewish son-in-law to deflect charges of coddling anti-Semites and used his daughter as a shield from charges of sexual harassment, could not be expected to overlook the social-media value of photos with representatives of black colleges. Indeed, in many Confederate states, it was illegal under slavery to allow blacks to learn to read.

Nonetheless, she plans to push for expanded school choice.

Of course, DeVos didn’t know this. Present educational policy can not be predicated on a fundamental misunderstanding and misreading of tragic American history. “I told her, ‘I want you back.’ All of them were just as open and gracious”.

Still, it’s understandable why Miller and the other HBCU presidents are willing to give Trump a chance.

“They are living proof that when more options are provided to students, they are afforded greater access and greater quality”, she said in a public statement. “They were created because they had no choices at all”, Wilson Jr. continued. Conversations he’s had with fellow HBCU presidents who were there sound similar.

Taylor in a statement said that the executive order was “a significant and positive first step” in the working relationship between historically black colleges and the new administration.

“Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) have done this since their founding”. Under President Barack Obama’s administration, HBCUs received $4 billion over seven years.

Schumer is speaking at the National Press Club along with Rep. Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., in advance of President Donald Trump’s speech Tuesday to a joint session of Congress.

However, the executive director, through ongoing meetings with elected officials, government executives, HBCU leaders and advocacy groups, could play a pivotal role in setting a strategic agenda for the HBCU funding.

Instead of President Trump using the meeting with college presidents to announce financial support for HBCUs, more money for research and development at institutions across the nation and increased dollars for tech transfer efforts to integrate into US daily life the intellectual discoveries spawned by college campuses, he disappoints with his first budget pronouncements made during Tuesday night’s televised address before Congress. “There is no substance at this point”, she said Monday, adding that she was waiting to see the contents of Trump’s executive order, and what Congress does during the budget process. Well, there wasn’t a lot of fiscal meat on the bones of that either.

“It seemed like that’s all he had to talk about, how crowded the Oval Office was”, he said. But rather it’s in are you going to use your power to (support) critical funding that HBCUs need in order to remain viable.

President Donald Trump met on Monday with more than 60 presidents from historically black colleges and universities to discuss his February 28 executive order and the overall needs of black schools.