“Invest over $70 billion in Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs), Tribal Colleges and Universities (TCUs), and Minority-Serving Institutions (MSIs), including $18 billion in grants to these four-year schools equivalent to up to two years of tuition.”
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Biden proposed the core of this pledge in the April 2021 American Families Plan, including a $39 billion program covering two years of tuition for HBCU, TCU, and MSI students, but Congress never enacted that tuition-grant program or funding near the promised $70 billion scale. His administration did deliver what it described as record support, announcing in September 2024 over $17 billion in federal investments in HBCUs across FY2021-FY2024, plus additional program funding reaching TCUs and MSIs. That is substantial but well short of the specific dollar commitments promised, and the $18 billion tuition-grant component never materialized.
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