Minority-Serving Institutions of Higher Education: Developing Partnership to Revitalize Communities

摘要

In summer 2000, the Office of University Partnerships (OUP) at the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) released Colleges and Communities: Gateway to the American Dream. The report presented an overview of the Community Outreach Partnership Centers (COPC) program, which was established in 1994 to help institutions of higher education (IHEs) work together with community partners to revitalize distressed communities. Now, in 2002, this new OUP report brings attention to other campus community partnerships established by HUD.These partnerships between minority-serving institutions and their communities typically take place in small cities such as Modesto, California, and in rural areas such as Lawton, Oklahoma. In recent years, these areas have become home to large minority populations. In this report, HUD celebrates the accomplishments of the minority serving institutions that participate in four HUD grant programs: The Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU) program; The Hispanic-Serving Institutions Assisting Communities (HSIAC) program; The Tribal Colleges and Universities Program (TCUP); and The Alaska Native/Native Hawaiian Institutions Assisting Communities (AN/NHIAC) program.