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HBCU Capital Financing Program

  • Rice Capital Access Program Update, January 2023  More >>
  • News release regarding Fisk University, August 2022   More>>
  • Article from Forbes, by Susan Adams and Hank Tucker, February 1, 2022
    How America Cheated Its Black Colleges   More >>
  • Rice Capital Access Program Update, January 2022  More >>
  • Article from the GW Hatchet, by Baxter Wareham and Caitlin Kitson, November 15, 2021
    Higher Education Funding in Biden’s Social Agenda Would Support Low-Income Students: Experts   More >>
  • Article from Inside Higher Ed, by Alexis Gravely, September 8, 2021
    Higher Ed Spending Not as Big as Hoped   More >>
  • Article from Diverse Issues in Higher Education, by Arrman Kyaw, June 30, 2021
    Bethune-Cookman University Receives Funding to End Dorm Construction Project   More >>
  • Article from CBS News Moneywatch, by Khristopher J. Brooks, June 17, 2021
    Black colleges were denied state funding for decades.  Now they’re fighting back.   More >>
  • News release regarding Morgan State University, June 2021   More>>
  • Transcript from NPR, May 13, 2021
    ‘Theft at a Scale that is Unprecedented’: Behind the Underfunding of HBCUs   More >>
  • Rice Capital Access Program Update, January 2021  More >>
  • Article from Georgetown University The Feed, September 25, 2020
    ‘Alarming’ Nationwide Exodus of Low-Income College Students, Students of Color   More >>
  • Article from the Washington Post, by Heather Long and Danielle Douglas-Gabriel, September 16, 2020
    The Latest Crisis:  Low-Income Students are Dropping Out of College this Fall in Alarming Numbers   More >>
  • Article from the National Student Clearinghouse, September 1, 2020
    Community Colleges, For-Profit and Rural Institutions, Black Undergraduates and Male Undergraduates Suffered Most from Online-Only 2020 Summer Sessions, According to Latest Enrolment Data   More >>
  • Rice Capital Access Program Update, Spring 2020  More >>
  • Article from Inside Higher Ed, by Scott Jaschik, March 30, 2020
    Will They Return? Surveys Suggest Tough Times for Most Colleges   More >>
  • Rice Capital Access Program Update, February 2019  More >>
  • News release regarding Tuskegee University, August 2017   More>>
  • News release regarding South Carolina State University, October 2016   More>>
  • News release regarding Jarvis Christian College, September 2016   More>>
  • News release from the Duke University-Fuqua School of Business, July 14, 2016
    Bond Market Research Spurs Congressional Action   More>>
  • Article from Marketplace, by Amy Scott, April 12, 2016
    Report finds racial bias in the bond market against historically black colleges and universities   More>>
  • Article from Inside Higher Ed, by Scott Jaschik, April 11, 2016
    The Cost of Being an HBCU   More>>
  • Study by finance and business professors from Drexel University, University of Notre Dame-Mendoza College of Business, Duke University-Fuqua School of Business, and University of California, San Diego (UCSD)-Rady School of Management, February 4, 2016
    What’s in a (School) Name? Racial Discrimination in Higher Education Bond Markets   More>>
  • News release regarding University of the Virgin Islands, March 2015   More>>
  • Rice Capital Access Program Update, January 2015    More>>
  • Rice Capital Access Program Update, August 2010     More>>
  • Secretary of Education Arne Duncan Delivers Speech: Changing the HBCU Narrative, June 2010   More>>
  • Rice Financial Named Designated Bond Authority for Department of Education HBCU Financing Program, April 2009   More>>