"SAN ANTONIO, Texas -- The Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities
today applauded the efforts of the bipartisan Senate Hispanic-Serving
Institutions (HSI) Coalition for advocating substantial, new federal funding
increases for those colleges and universities serving the largest
concentrations of Hispanic higher education students in every major state
and Puerto Rico.
Members of the Senate HSI Coalition, in a formal letter to leaders of the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, urged support for a ""significant increase"" in the Fiscal Year 2002 budget for Title V of the Higher Education Act. Title V targets funds to historically under-funded HSIs, which receive only a fraction of federal funds per student on average compared to all other degree-granting institutions. The country's more than 200 federally designated HSIs are defined as having a full-time student enrollment that is at least 25 percent Hispanic.
""The Senate HSI Coalition has proven a powerful and urgently needed voice in Congress for the education needs of the nation's youngest and fastest-growing population group. Their championship of our HSIs will benefit everyone in an economy that will demand increasingly advanced skills and knowledge to sustain our country's future success and security,"" said HACU President Antonio R. Flores.
""We are deeply grateful to Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison, R-Texas, and to Sen. Jeff Bingaman, D-New Mexico, co-chairs of the bipartisan Senate HSI Coalition, and to every Coalition member for their foresight and for their diligence in efforts to ensure a better future for all of us,"" Flores said.
Flores today forwarded letters of thanks to Senators Hutchison and Bingaman, as well as to other distinguished members of the Senate HSI Coaliton: Sen. Pete Domenici, R-New Mexico; Sen. Peter G. Fitzgerald, R-Illinois; Sen. James M Inhofe, R-Oklahoma; Sen. Wayne Allard, R-Colorado; Sen. Patty Murray, D-Washington, Sen. Richard J. Durbin, D-Illinois; Sen. Christopher J. Dodd, D-Connecticut; Sen. Jon S. Corzine, D-New Jersey; Sen. Bob Graham, D-Florida; Sen. Harry Reid, D-Nevada; Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-California; Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-California, and Sen. John F. Kerry, D-Massachusetts.
HACU is requesting an increase in Title V funds for HSIs from $68.5 million in Fiscal Year (FY) 2001 to at least $100 million in FY 2002. HACU, the nation's leading voice for Hispanic higher education, represents 313 member, associate member and partner colleges and universities throughout the United States, Latin America and in Spain.
For more information, contact HACU national headquarters in San Antonio, Texas, at (210) 692-3805 or HACU's Washington, D.C., offices at (202) 833-8361. Or visit www.hacu.net "
Members of the Senate HSI Coalition, in a formal letter to leaders of the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, urged support for a ""significant increase"" in the Fiscal Year 2002 budget for Title V of the Higher Education Act. Title V targets funds to historically under-funded HSIs, which receive only a fraction of federal funds per student on average compared to all other degree-granting institutions. The country's more than 200 federally designated HSIs are defined as having a full-time student enrollment that is at least 25 percent Hispanic.
""The Senate HSI Coalition has proven a powerful and urgently needed voice in Congress for the education needs of the nation's youngest and fastest-growing population group. Their championship of our HSIs will benefit everyone in an economy that will demand increasingly advanced skills and knowledge to sustain our country's future success and security,"" said HACU President Antonio R. Flores.
""We are deeply grateful to Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison, R-Texas, and to Sen. Jeff Bingaman, D-New Mexico, co-chairs of the bipartisan Senate HSI Coalition, and to every Coalition member for their foresight and for their diligence in efforts to ensure a better future for all of us,"" Flores said.
Flores today forwarded letters of thanks to Senators Hutchison and Bingaman, as well as to other distinguished members of the Senate HSI Coaliton: Sen. Pete Domenici, R-New Mexico; Sen. Peter G. Fitzgerald, R-Illinois; Sen. James M Inhofe, R-Oklahoma; Sen. Wayne Allard, R-Colorado; Sen. Patty Murray, D-Washington, Sen. Richard J. Durbin, D-Illinois; Sen. Christopher J. Dodd, D-Connecticut; Sen. Jon S. Corzine, D-New Jersey; Sen. Bob Graham, D-Florida; Sen. Harry Reid, D-Nevada; Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-California; Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-California, and Sen. John F. Kerry, D-Massachusetts.
HACU is requesting an increase in Title V funds for HSIs from $68.5 million in Fiscal Year (FY) 2001 to at least $100 million in FY 2002. HACU, the nation's leading voice for Hispanic higher education, represents 313 member, associate member and partner colleges and universities throughout the United States, Latin America and in Spain.
For more information, contact HACU national headquarters in San Antonio, Texas, at (210) 692-3805 or HACU's Washington, D.C., offices at (202) 833-8361. Or visit www.hacu.net "