8 Puerto Rico colleges split $6.7M in federal funding allocations
The U.S. Department of Education awarded the grants to support Hispanic students.
Eight colleges across Puerto Rico will share $6.7 million awarded by the U.S. Department of Education to Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSIs) to support Hispanic students, as well as the colleges and universities they attend.
The grants are divided into two categories — the Promoting Postbaccalaureate Opportunities for Hispanic Americans (PPOHA) Program and the Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSI) Division.
Three local colleges received funding through the PPOHA program: San Juan Bautista School of Medicine ($600,000), Universidad Adventista de las Antillas ($600,000), and Sacred Heart University ($597,369).
The PPOHA program encouraged applicants to propose projects aimed at increasing the number of Hispanics prepared for the STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) workforce, as well as boosting the number of Hispanic educators.
Meanwhile, five colleges were awarded under the HSI program: Polytechnic University ($600,000); EDP University of Puerto Rico ($600,000); University of Puerto Rico Medical Sciences Campus ($600,000); University of Puerto Rico, Ponce ($600,000); and Universidad Ana G. Méndez, Gurabo ($599,044).
This program seeks to expand educational opportunities and improve the attainment of Hispanic students.
“Our nation’s Hispanic-Serving Institutions open up new doors to opportunity and success for Hispanic and Latino students every day,” said U.S. Education Secretary Miguel Cardona. “The grants we’re announcing today double down on the Biden-Harris administration’s historic investments in Hispanic-Serving Institutions and reflect our determination to raise the bar for educational opportunity and equity in America.”
So happy for the UPR-Ponce as they offer ubique programa in Spanish in the whole USA, their atjletic training program (terapéutica atletica) is unique & highly regarded, theyre in beed of a New specisl program unit!!!!!!! Thanks yo this administration gor taking notice on this 8 institutions in PR!!!!!! Hurray!!!!!!! So sorry Birmingham-Sourhern College in AL dod not have an exponentially growing hipanic/latino student population. I recall being the only one back in the 90s