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ARTICLE VIEW:
Trump administration boosts HBCU funding after cutting grants for
Hispanic-serving colleges
By Associated Press
Updated:
1:29 PM EDT, Mon September 15, 2025
Source: AP
The Trump administration is redirecting nearly $500 million in federal
funding toward and tribal colleges, a one-time investment covered
primarily by cuts to other colleges serving large numbers of minority
students.
The Education Department announced the funding boost days after from
other grants, mostly from programs reserved for colleges that have
large numbers of Hispanic students. Agency leaders said those grants
were unconstitutional because they’re available only to colleges with
certain minority enrollment thresholds.
Education Secretary said the changes will redirect money away from
“from ineffective and discriminatory programs toward those which
support student success.”
“The Department has carefully scrutinized our federal grants,
ensuring that taxpayers are not funding racially discriminatory
programs but those programs which promote merit and excellence in
education,” McMahon said in a statement.
The department is also redirecting about $60 million toward funding for
charter schools and $137 million toward American history and civics
grants. President in January issued an ordering the agency to repurpose
federal money toward charter schools and other school choice
initiatives.
It amounts to a one-time federal funding boost of 48% increase for
HBCUs and it more than doubles funding for tribal colleges and
universities, the department said.
The department is flexing its power to repurpose discretionary funding
to match the president’s priorities — made possible through a
stopgap funding bill passed by Congress this year that gives the
executive branch more authority over spending decisions.
Trump has long called himself a champion of HBCUs. During his first
term, Congress for HBCUs. This year Trump signed an that pledges an
annual White House summit, an advisory board and other support for
HBCUs.
The Education Department said the money comes from programs found to be
“not in the best interest of students and families.” It previously
said the other minority-serving grants would be redirected to programs
that do not rely on racial quotas.
A person familiar with the decision said money is also being directed
away from programs that support gifted and talented programs, magnet
schools, international education and teacher training. Most of those
programs would be zeroed out in Trump’s 2026 budget request, said the
person, who was not authorized to discuss the decision and spoke on the
condition of anonymity.
Last week’s cuts to the the Hispanic Serving Institution program
reversed decades of precedent. Congress created the program in 1998
after finding that Latino students were going to college and graduating
at far lower rates than white students. The department also cut several
smaller programs for colleges serving certain percentages of Asian
American, Black or Native American students.
The cuts drew swift blowback from Democrats, who said those programs
have long had bipartisan support and fueled social mobility for
working-class Americans.
A from the Justice Department argues that the Hispanic Serving
Institution grants are unconstitutional because they’re open only to
colleges where a quarter of undergraduates or more are Hispanic. The
department declined to defend the program in a suit brought by the
state of Tennessee and Students for Fair Admissions, an
anti-affirmative action group.
The lawsuit asks a federal judge to halt the grants. Tennessee argued
all of its public universities serve Hispanic students but none meet
the “arbitrary ethnic threshold” to be eligible for the funding.
Those schools miss out on tens of millions of dollars because of
discriminatory requirements, the suit said.
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