October 12, 2010
LITTLE ROCK - Three historically black colleges in Arkansas will receive a total of $2.2 million from the federal government to improve facilities and buy equipment, Democratic members of Arkansas' congressional delegation announced today.
The funds, provided under the U.S. Department of Education's Title III Historically Black Colleges and University Program, will be distributed as follows:
-The University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff will use $1.17 million to add classrooms in an academic building and buy classroom and laboratory equipment for the School of Education and the School of Agriculture, Fisheries and Human Sciences.
-Arkansas Baptist College in Little Rock will use $500,000 to help build a new academic building and upgrade its information technology infrastructure.
-Philander Smith College in Little Rock will use $500,000 to help build a building that will house the college's Center for Social Justice, Integrated Campus Center, Academic Success Center and Computer Information Center.
