A new report takes the U.S. Department of Defense to task for chronically underfunding researchers at HBCUs and other schools with large underrepresented student enrollments—and for failing to deliver on its repeated promises to do more.
takes the U.S. Department of Defense to task for chronically underfunding researchers at historically Black colleges and universities and other schools with large underrepresented student enrollments—and for failing to deliver on its repeated promises to do more.legislation and departmental efforts with the stated intent” of growing that pot, says.
DOD trails other federal agencies in funding research at minority-serving institutions , according to data collected by the NASEM committee. HBCUs received just 0.4% of the $6.6 billion DOD spent on basic research in 2019, the report notes, compared with 0.9% of the research pie at the Department of Energy and NASA and 0.8% of all federal research dollars.Simply giving more research dollars to HBCUs is only part of the solution, however.
“There is untapped research capacity [at HBCUs] if DOD wants to invest in it,” Murray says. “But they need to figure out how to access that talent.”
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