HBCU Wins Commerce Funds - Brief Article

Black Issues in Higher Education, August 3, 2000

WASHINGTON -- The Clinton administration's new initiative to improve communities in the Mississippi Delta region continues to provide benefits for colleges in that area.

Mississippi Valley State University has received a $90,000 university center grant from the U.S. Department of Commerce. Goals for the program are to help improve the Delta economy, through initiatives such as technical assistance and outreach to small business owners, says Rep. Bennie Thompson, D-Miss. The grant also will support job-training efforts to meet local employer demands.

The administration's Delta initiative seeks to focus more federal funding to improve the region's economy, much as the nation has programs to provide support to communities of Appalachia.