White House Initiative To Promote Excellence and Innovation at Historically Black Colleges and Universities

The order establishes the White House Initiative on HBCUs — led by a presidentially designated Executive Director and housed in the Executive Office of the President — to increase private-sector engagement, improve HBCU access to federal research and development funding, support implementation of the HBCU PARTNERS Act, and convene an annual White House Summit on HBCUs. It also creates the President's Board of Advisors on HBCUs within the Department of Education, which is structured and governed by the HBCU PARTNERS Act and will advise the President through the Initiative. The Executive Director must submit an annual progress report to the President.

The order revokes Executive Order 14041 from September 2021, which had established a prior HBCU initiative under a different name and policy framework. It does not itself change any federal funding formulas, grant eligibility rules, or regulations; actual impact on HBCU funding and programs depends on future agency actions, private-sector partnerships, and grant decisions that the Initiative facilitates but does not itself control.

Historically Black Colleges and Universities and their students, faculty, and administrators; federal agencies that fund or partner with HBCUs; private-sector employers, foundations, and philanthropic organizations invited to partner with the Initiative; and the EPA's existing HBCU advisory council, which is directed to be terminated.

HBCUs gain a formal White House-level coordination body aimed at connecting them to private-sector funding, federal research grants, and workforce pipelines. The EPA's separate HBCU and minority-serving institution advisory council is immediately dissolved, eliminating one existing channel of federal engagement for those schools.

The Initiative sits in the Executive Office of the President and works across agencies, private employers, and philanthropies to build capacity at HBCUs. The Board of Advisors, housed at the Department of Education and funded by it, advises the President through the Initiative on statutory matters set by the HBCU PARTNERS Act. The Executive Director ties the system together with an annual report to the President. Agencies bear their own participation costs. No enforcement mechanism is specified beyond the reporting requirement and the EPA's 14-day termination deadline.