Tuesday, April 05, 2011

Look Broadly for Funds, Fed Official Urges

Look Broadly for Funds, Fed Official Urges: In their search for federal dollars, Hispanic-serving institutions must think beyond programs targeted just at HSIs or minority-serving colleges and look toward broader competitive federal grants open to all of higher education, an Obama administration official said Monday.

Juan Sepulveda, director of the White House Initiative on Educational Excellence for Hispanic Americans, said education faces a “new policy landscape” in which narrowly targeted federal programs such as grants to Hispanic-serving colleges are unlikely, by themselves, to meet the needs of fast-growing postsecondary institutions.

“The notion that targeted dollars are the only funds available represents the old way of thinking,” he told a public policy forum of the Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities in Washington, D.C.