HACU Urges Congress to Increase Funding for Hispanics

Hispanic Outlook in Higher Education

doi:10.7273/000007979

"This bill...does not begin to address the dramatic underfunding of Hispanic higher education by Congress, despite the fact that the nation's youngest and largest ethnic population will have such a dramatic impact on our nation's economic success and security," said Antonio R. Flores, HACU president and CEO. "We cannot hope to see real progress in the national call to substantially increase Hispanic college graduation rates until we at least reach parity in federal funding for those colleges and universities that serve the largest concentrations of Hispanic higher education students." U.S. House Education and the Workforce Committee Chair John Boehner and 21st Century Competitiveness Subcommittee Chair Howard P. "Buck" McKeon introduced a congressional report declaring that the nation's higher education system is in crisis as a result of exploding cost increases that threaten to put college out of reach for low-and middle-income students and families. The report, The College Cost Crisis, concludes that decades of cost increases, in both good economic times and bad, have caused America's higher education system to reach a crisis point. The report is available online at http://edworkforce.house.gov/issues/108th/ed ucation/highereducation/CollegeCostCrisisReport.pdf. "The purpose of this report is to call attention to the problems parents and students are facing, and the need for greater accountability and transparency in college tuition hikes," said Boehner. "The college cost crisis is not simply the result of state budget cuts in higher education; it's the result of the fact that students and parents lack the ability to hold the higher education system accountable for disproportionate tuition increases. They don't have access to the kind of information they need to fully exercise their power as consumers. We think this is a problem that urgently needs to be addressed, and we're interested in working with those in the higher education community who are as serious about this problem as students and parents are."

HACU Urges Congress to Increase Funding for Hispanics

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