WASHINGTON – The White House is promising Black colleges they won’t be left out of the president’s legislative agenda this year amid hand-wringing in Congress over what counts as infrastructure.
A group of senators and the White House agreed to compromise legislation that includes some, but not all, of the proposals in the jobs plan that President Joe Biden put forward.
That bipartisan proposal focuses on traditional infrastructure and does not mention historically Black colleges and universities or the resources the schools say they need in order to compete with better-known institutions for sustained, private investment and enrollment.
