Obama Staffers Meet With Black College Presidents
- Saturday, October 8, 2011, 22:36
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Source: Antoinette Campbell / CNN
Washington – College presidents from predominantly black institutions across the country gathered in the nation’s capital Monday for a conference commemorating National Historically Black Colleges and Universities Week.
The two-day conference, titled “HBCUs: Engaging the World Anew,” began just days after President Barack Obama signed a proclamation making official the designation for the week of September 18-24.
It’s part of a White House effort to promote the president’s goal of creating the best-educated and most competitive and diverse workforce in the world by 2020, the White House said in a written statement.
In February 2010, Obama signed an executive order renewing an initiative on historically black colleges and universities, establishing a presidential board to advise the White House on matters pertaining to strengthening the educational capacity of these institutions.
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