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U.S. GOVERNMENT
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Calendar No. 391
115TH CONGRESS SEAEREPORT
2d Session SENATE 115-236
TO REAUTHORIZE THE HISTORICALLY BLACK COLLEGES
AND UNIVERSITIES HISTORIC PRESERVATION PROGRAM
APRIL 25, 2018.-Ordered to be printed
Ms. MURKOWSKI, from the Committee on Energy and Natural
Resources, submitted the following
REPORT
[To accompany H.R. 1135]
[Including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office]
The Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, to which was
referred the bill (H.R. 1135) to reauthorize the Historically Black
Colleges and Universities Historic Preservation program, having
considered the same, reports favorably thereon without amendment
and recommends that the bill do pass.
PURPOSE
The purpose of H.R. 1135 is to reauthorize the Historically Black
Colleges and Universities Historic Preservation program for fiscal
years 2018 through 2024.
BACKGROUND AND NEED
Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) are defined
by the Higher Education Act of 1965, as amended, as any histori-
cally black college or university that was established prior to 1964,
whose principal mission was, and is, the education of black Ameri-
cans, and that is accredited by a nationally recognized accrediting
agency or association determined by the Secretary of Education to
be a reliable authority as to the quality of training offered or is,
according to such agency or association, making reasonable
progress toward accreditation. The National Center for Education
Statistics currently lists 102 accredited HBCUs.
In 1980, President Jimmy Carter signed Executive Order 12232,
establishing the White House Initiative on HBCUs, which was in-
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