1、 https:/crsreports.congress.gov November 26, 2021The Build Back Better Act (H.R. 5376): Title II Aid to Minority-Serving InstitutionsOn November 19, 2021, the House passed H.R. 5376, the Build Back Better Act (BBBA), to provide for budget reconciliation. Title II of the BBBA contains provisions from
2、 the House Committee on Education and Labor to comply with the budget reconciliation directive included in Section 2002 of Senate Concurrent Resolution 14 (117th Congress). Within Title II, the BBBA would appropriate approximately $9 billion for FY2022-FY2026 to support minority-serving institutions
3、 (MSIs) through an existing Higher Education Act (HEA) institutional aid program and a newly authorized research and development (R&D) infrastructure competitive grant program. Other BBBA provisions outside of Title II would also support MSIs, but to a much lesser extent in terms of total dollars ap
4、propriated. This In Focus discusses the provisions in BBBA Title II that would support MSIs. Background on Federal Support for MSIs under the Higher Education Act MSIs are institutions of higher education (IHEs) that serve high concentrations of minority students, and they tend to have relatively lo
