Arkansas News Bureau October 12, 2010 Historically black colleges to receive $2.2 million for improvements LITTLE ROCK - Three historically black colleges in Arkansas will receive a total of $2.2 million from the federal government to improve facilities and buy equipment, Democratic members of Arkansas' congressional delegation announced today. The funds, provided under the U.S. Department of Education's Title III Historically Black Colleges and University Program, will be distributed as follows: -The University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff will use $1.17 million to add classrooms in an academic building and buy classroom and laboratory equipment for the School of Education and the School of Agriculture, Fisheries and Human Sciences. -Arkansas Baptist College in Little Rock will use $500,000 to help build a new academic building and upgrade its information technology infrastructure. -Philander Smith College in Little Rock will use $500,000 to help build a building that will house the college's Center for Social Justice, Integrated Campus Center, Academic Success Center and Computer Information Center. SANDRA M. PHOENIX Program Director HBCU Library Alliance sphoenix@hbculibraries.org www.hbculibraries.org 404.592.4820 1438 West Peachtree Street NW Suite 200 Atlanta, GA 30309 Toll Free: 1.800.999.8558 (Lyrasis) Fax: 404.892.7879 www.lyrasis.org Honor the ancestors, honor the children. Register now http://www.hbculibraries.org/html/meeting-form.html for the October 24-26, 2010 HBCU Library Alliance 4th Membership Meeting and the "Conference on Advocacy" pre-conference in Montgomery, AL. The Pre-Conference and Membership meeting are open to directors and other librarians.