34 CFR § 609.1 - What is the Strengthening Historically Black Graduate Institutions Program?

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title: "34 CFR § 609.1 - What is the Strengthening Historically Black Graduate Institutions Program?"
title_number: 34
title_name: "Education"
section_number: "609.1"
section_name: "What is the Strengthening Historically Black Graduate Institutions Program?"
chapter_name: "OFFICE OF POSTSECONDARY EDUCATION, DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION"
part_number: "609"
part_name: "STRENGTHENING HISTORICALLY BLACK GRADUATE INSTITUTIONS PROGRAM"
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currency: "2026-04-05"
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authority: "20 U.S.C. 1060 through 1063c, and 1068 through 1068h, unless otherwise noted."
regulatory_source: "59 FR 38717, July 20, 1993, unless otherwise noted."
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# 609.1 What is the Strengthening Historically Black Graduate Institutions Program?

The Strengthening Historically Black Graduate Institutions Program provides grants to the institutions listed in § 609.2 to assist these institutions in establishing and strengthening their physical plants, development offices, endowment funds, academic resources and student services so that they may continue to participate in fulfilling the goal of equality of educational opportunity in graduate education.

(Authority: 20 U.S.C. 1060 and 1063b)