Sens. Booker, Jones Press for $1.5B in Immediate Assistance to Minority-Serving Institutions Amidst COVID-19 Fallout
March 20, 2020
March 20, 2020
WASHINGTON, March 20 -- Sen. Cory Booker, D-New Jersey, issued the following news release on March 19:
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- HBCUs and other MSIs face unique challenges in responding to the COVID-19 pandemic
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U.S. Senators Cory Booker (D-NJ) and Doug Jones (D-AL) urged Senate Leaders Mitch McConnell (R-KY) and Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and Senate appropriators to direct $1.5 billion in emergency funding to Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) . . .
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- HBCUs and other MSIs face unique challenges in responding to the COVID-19 pandemic
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U.S. Senators Cory Booker (D-NJ) and Doug Jones (D-AL) urged Senate Leaders Mitch McConnell (R-KY) and Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and Senate appropriators to direct $1.5 billion in emergency funding to Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) . . .