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UNCF HBCU Issues Guide

It’s not enough to vote; you need to be an informed voter.

With so much at stake and so many issues at the forefront, it’s important to ask questions of every candidate or campaign about the things that matter to you and the HBCU community. This guide provides information for the HBCU community and its supporters on issues critical to protecting and uplifting our institutions and the students we serve.

UNCF believes that the HBCU community should have access to prepared questions for presidential candidates when they visit HBCU campuses. Use this guide whenever you engage with candidates when they visit your community or campus, or speaking with you on social media. Ask the hard questions, and listen to their answers.

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Top HBCU Issues

At the beginning of every new Congress, UNCF identifies top priorities of importance to HBCUs and low-income, first-generation college students. Find the top priorities of the 116th Congress here.
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Protect the FUTURE of Federal Funding

Strength can be found in numbers, and we need your help to save the FUTURE of STEM education at our nation’s HBCUs.
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Join our efforts to help inform candidates about the needs of HBCUs and their students.
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Voting is the foundation stone for political action.

—Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Valuable Resources

 

HBCUs Matter and Boost Our Economy, HBCUs fuel economic progress and propel social mobility. We must invest in HBCUs to support opportunity, resilience and innovation for all of America.

 

Fewer Resources, More Debt: Loan Debt Burdens Students at Historically Black Colleges and Universities
This report examines the rates, amounts and distribution of student loan debt among HBCU students relative to their non-HBCU peers and offers analysis that focuses solely on undergraduates attending four-year public and private, non-profit institutions.

 

HBCUs Make America Strong: The Positive Economic Impact of Historically Black Colleges and Universities
The study, commissioned by UNCF’s Frederick D. Patterson Research Institute, shows that the economic benefits of HBCUs extend beyond the students they educate. They’re equally important to the regions and communities that HBCUs have served for more than 100 years.

Read Other UNCF Reports

To keep our HBCUs strong, we must support candidates who share the same vision. Too often, I have witnessed candidates share polices that would negatively impact HBCUs and their students. Because of this, UNCF is taking the initiative to ensure that HBCU students, families, faculty and administrators have the proper information to be informed voters and to ask the right questions. Every candidate should know the issues that matter to us and have a plan to address them.

—Dr. Michael L. Lomax, President and CEO, UNCF