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Part V
The President
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Executive Order 13532--Promoting Excellence, Innovation, and
Sustainability at Historically Black Colleges and Universities
Presidential Documents
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Title 3--
The President
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Executive Order 13532 of February 26, 2010
Promoting Excellence, Innovation, and
Sustainability at Historically Black Colleges and
Universities
By the authority vested in me as President by the
Constitution and the laws of the United States of
America, in order to advance the development of the
Nation's full human potential and to advance equal
opportunity in higher education, strengthen the
capacity of historically black colleges and
universities to provide the highest quality education,
increase opportunities for these institutions to
participate in and benefit from Federal programs, and
ensure that our Nation has the highest proportion of
college graduates in the world by the year 2020, it is
hereby ordered as follows:
Section 1. Policy. Historically black colleges and
universities (HBCUs) have made historic and ongoing
contributions to the general welfare and prosperity of
our country. Established by visionary leaders,
America's HBCUs, for over 150 years, have produced many
of the Nation's leaders in business, government,
academia, and the military and have provided
generations of American men and women with hope and
educational opportunity. The Nation's 105 HBCUs are
located in 20 States, the District of Columbia, and the
U.S. Virgin Islands and serve more than 300,000
undergraduate and graduate students. These institutions
continue to be important engines of economic growth and
community service, and they are proven ladders of
intergenerational advancement for men and women of all
ethnic, racial, and economic backgrounds, especially
African Americans. These institutions also produce a
high number of baccalaureate recipients who go on to
assume leadership and service roles in their
communities and who successfully complete graduate and
professional degree programs.
Sec. 2. White House Initiative on HBCUs.
(a) Establishment. There is established the White
House Initiative on Historically Black Colleges and
Universities (Initiative), to be housed in the
Department of Education (Department).
(b) Mission and Functions. The Initiative shall
work with executive departments, agencies, and offices,
the private sector, educational associations,
philanthropic organizations, and other partners to
increase the capacity of HBCUs to provide the highest-
quality education to a greater number of students, and
to take advantage of these institutions' capabilities
in serving the Nation's needs through five core tasks:
(i) strengthening the capacity of HBCUs to participate in Federal programs;
(ii) fostering enduring private-sector initiatives and public-private
partnerships while promoting specific areas and centers of academic
research and programmatic excellence throughout all HBCUs;
(iii) improving the availability, dissemination, and quality of information
concerning HBCUs to inform public policy and practice;
(iv) sharing administrative and programmatic practices within the HBCU
community for the benefit of all; and
(v) exploring new ways of improving the relationship between the Federal
Government and HBCUs.
(c) Administration. There shall be an Executive
Director of the Initiative. The Department shall
provide the staff, resources, and assistance for the
Initiative, and shall assist the Initiative in
fulfilling its mission and responsibilities under this
order.
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(d) Federal Agency Plans. (1) Each executive
department and agency designated by the Secretary of
Education (Secretary) shall prepare an annual plan
(agency plan) of its efforts to strengthen the capacity
of HBCUs through increased participation in appropriate
Federal programs and initiatives. Where appropriate,
each agency plan shall address, among other things, the
agency's proposed efforts to:
(i) establish how the department or agency intends to increase the
capacity of HBCUs to compete effectively for grants, contracts, or
cooperative agreements and to encourage HBCUs to participate in Federal
programs;
(ii) identify Federal programs and initiatives in which HBCUs may be
either underserved or underused as national resources, and improve HBCUs'
participation therein; and
(iii) encourage public-sector, private-sector, and community involvement
in improving the overall capacity of HBCUs.
(2) Each department and agency, in its agency plan, shall provide
appropriate measurable objectives and, after the first year, shall annually
assess that department's or agency's performance on the goals set in the
previous year's agency plan.
(3) The Secretary shall establish a date by which agency plans shall be
submitted to the Secretary. The Secretary and the Executive Director shall
review the agency plans in consultation with the President's Board of
Advisors on HBCUs, established in section 3 of this order, and shall submit
to the President an annual plan to strengthen the overall capacity of
HBCUs.
(4) To help fulfill the objectives of these plans, the head of each
department and agency identified by the Secretary shall provide, as
appropriate, technical assistance and information to the Executive Director
for purposes of communicating with HBCUs concerning program activities of
the department or agency and the preparation of applications or proposals
for grants, contracts, or cooperative agreements.
(5) To help fulfill the goals of this order, each executive department and
agency identified by the Secretary shall appoint a senior official to
report directly to the department or agency head with respect to that
department's or agency's activities under this order, and to serve as
liaison to the President's Board of Advisors on HBCUs and to the
Initiative.
(e) Interagency Working Group. There is established
the Interagency Working Group, which shall be convened
by the Executive Director and that shall consist of
representatives from agencies designated by the
Secretary, to help advance and coordinate the work of
Federal agencies pursuant to this order, where
appropriate.
Sec. 3. President's Board of Advisors on HBCUs.
(a) Establishment. There is established in the
Department the President's Board of Advisors on
Historically Black Colleges and Universities (the
Board). The Board shall consist of not more than 25
members appointed by the President. The President shall
designate one member of the Board to serve as Chair,
who shall coordinate with the Executive Director to
convene meetings and help direct the work of the Board.
The Board shall include representatives of a variety of
sectors, including philanthropy, education, business,
finance, entrepreneurship, innovation, and private
foundations, as well as sitting HBCU presidents.
(b) Mission and Functions. Through the Initiative,
the Board shall advise the President and the Secretary
on all matters pertaining to strengthening the
educational capacity of HBCUs. In particular, the Board
shall advise the President and the Secretary in the
following areas:
(i) improving the identity, visibility, and distinctive capabilities and
overall competitiveness of HBCUs;
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(ii) engaging the philanthropic, business, government, military, homeland-
security, and education communities in a national dialogue regarding new
HBCU programs and initiatives;
(iii) improving the ability of HBCUs to remain fiscally secure institutions
that can assist the Nation in reaching its goal of having the highest
proportion of college graduates by 2020;
(iv) elevating the public awareness of HBCUs; and
(v) encouraging public-private investments in HBCUs.
(c) Administration. The Executive Director of the
Initiative shall also serve as the Executive Director
of the Board. The Department shall provide funding and
administrative support for the Board to the extent
permitted by law and within existing appropriations.
Members of the Board shall serve without compensation,
but shall be reimbursed for travel expenses, including
per diem in lieu of subsistence, as authorized by law.
Insofar as the Federal Advisory Committee Act, as
amended (5 U.S.C. App.), may apply to the Board, any
functions of the President under that Act, except for
those of reporting to the Congress, shall be performed
by the Secretary, in accordance with guidelines issued
by the Administrator of General Services.
(d) Report. As part of the annual report of the
Initiative, the Board shall report to the President and
the Secretary on their progress in carrying out its
duties under this section.
Sec. 4. General Provisions. (a) For the purposes of
this order, ``historically black colleges and
universities'' shall mean those institutions listed in
34 C.F.R. 602.8.
(b) This order shall apply to executive departments
and agencies designated by the Secretary. Those
departments and agencies shall provide timely reports
and such information as is required to effectively
carry out the objectives of this order.
(c) The heads of executive departments and agencies
shall assist and provide information through the White
House Initiative to the Board, consistent with
applicable law, as may be necessary to carry out the
functions of the Board. Each executive department and
agency shall bear its own expenses of participating in
the Initiative.
(d) Nothing in this order shall be construed to
impair or otherwise affect:
(i) the authority granted by law to an executive department, agency, or the
head thereof; or
(ii) the functions of the Director of the Office of Management and Budget
relating to budgetary, administrative, or legislative proposals.
(e) This order shall be implemented consistent with
applicable law and subject to the availability of
appropriations.
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(f) This order is not intended to, and does not,
create any right or benefit, substantive or procedural,
enforceable at law or in equity by any party against
the United States, its departments, agencies, or
entities, its officers, employees, or agents, or any
other person.
(g) Executive Order 13256 of February 12, 2002, is
hereby revoked.
(Presidential Sig.)
THE WHITE HOUSE,
February 26, 2010.
[FR Doc. 2010-4593
Filed 3-2-10; 8:45 am]
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