The United States Department of Education has awarded more than $13.7 million to 23 predominantly Black educational institutions to strengthen their educational programs. The colleges and universities each received about $600,000 over five years. Institutions receiving funds are not historically Black colleges and universities but other institutions with a large percentage of Black students.
Institutions receiving funding under the grant program are listed below along with the Black percentage of their undergraduate student bodies in 2014:
- Albany Technical College, Albany, Georgia (80% Black)
- Medgar Evers College, Brooklyn, New York (80% Black)
- Chicago State University, Chicago, Illinois (74% Black)
- Olive Harvey College, Chicago, Illinois (69% Black)
- Mississippi Delta Community College, Moorhead, Mississippi (62% Black)
- Malcolm X College, Chicago, Illinois (61% Black)
- Southwest Tennessee Community College, Memphis, Tennessee (59% Black)
- South Georgia Technical College, Americus, Georgia (56% Black)
- Mid-South Community College, West Memphis, Arkansas (55% Black)
- Cedar Valley College, Lancaster, Texas (53% Black)
- Halifax Community College, Weldon, North Carolina (53% Black)
- Bloomfield College, Bloomfield, New Jersey (52% Black)
- Central Georgia Technical College, Warner Robins, Georgia (52% Black)
- Florence-Darlington Technical College, Florence, South Carolina (50% Black)
- Oconee Fall Line Technical College, Sandersville, Georgia (50% Black)
- Augusta Technical College, Augusta, Georgia (49% Black)
- Pulaski Technical College, North Little Rock, Arkansas (48% Black)
- Community College of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (45% Black)
- Central Carolina Technical College, Sumter, South Carolina (44% Black)
- University of West Alabama, Livingston, Alabama (41% Black)
- Georgia Perimeter College, Decatur, Georgia (41% Black)
- Northeastern Technical College, Cheraw, South Carolina (41% Black)
- York College, City University of New York, Jamaica, New York (40% Black)
