So we will be looking, in the early moments of the 110th Congress, for opportunities for Congress to start reversing these trends, whether through increased funding for scholarship programs or through innovative new approaches to overcoming the financial barriers to college. And we have been heartened by the priority that appropriators in both houses have given to the need to increase Pell Grant funding.
The 110th Congress may be new, but the challenges faced by UNCF and other minority higher education advocates are not. UNCF will be using these first few months of the new Congress to meet new legislators, get reacquainted with longtime supporters and to start again the process of translating our mission into a legislative agenda, so we can live up to the ideal expressed in our motto, “A mind is a terrible thing to waste.”
— Dr. Michael Lomax is the president and CEO of UNCF.
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