Presidential Documents

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Federal Register 

Vol. 75, No. 41 

Wednesday, March 3, 2010 

Title 3— 

The President 

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, homelandsecurity, 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. 

THE WHITE HOUSE, 

February 26, 2010. 

[FR Doc. 2010–4593 

Filed 3–2–10; 8:45 am] 

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