Title III-B, Strengthening HBCU Program, is a part of the Higher Education Act of 1965 that provides funding to eligible HBCUs (4-year and 2-year institutions).

Purpose: Title III funding is to provide support through grant funding to assist eligible HBCUs in strengthening their academic, administrative, and fiscal capabilities.

Title III Activities

  1. Student Retention - Ms. Tonya Doane
    This activity helps to improve student learning and promote increased retention. It also helps with increasing course completion rates, retention rates, and graduation rates by providing support for all students through collaboration and innovative curricular strategies.
  2. Library Services - Ms. Joan Williams
    This activity will be utilized to purchase library books, periodicals, etc., to support student learning. It acts as a dynamic academic hub, enriching students' education by preserving and digitizing historical resources, offering immersive learning and research opportunities. It also creates physical and virtual spaces for research, study, and collaboration, with multimedia labs and AR/VR tools to support diverse learning and research needs.
  3. Institutional Effectiveness - VPAA
    This activity helps to advance quality education by providing and reporting data to national, state, and local stakeholders on the level of educational quality delivered in programs and services. It also ensures that college data is readily available to meet requests from offices and provides accessibility and facilitates guidance to campus resources for students to improve academic success.
  4. Information Technology - Dr. Santiba Campbell
    This activity helps to enhance, advance, and strengthen the college’s information technology systems. The college strives to fully utilize all modules and create processes in each system to link data, therefore reducing manual data entry. It also supports Helpdesk Service, new installation and evaluation of server virtualization, cloud computing and cloud backup systems, improvements in the wireless infrastructure service, and installing more smart classroom equipment.
  5. New Academic Programs - Dr. Toneyce Randolph
    This activity enhances Bennett College’s academic offerings, particularly in Education. This initiative includes alternative Teaching Pathways: Addressing the K-12 teacher shortage by expanding the Educator Alternative Licensure Program and student Success: Offering tutoring, mentorship, and experiential learning for education majors.
  6. Employee Development - Dr. Sara C Wrenn/Mr. Shemrico Stanley
    This activity helps to improve faculty and staff’s skills and knowledge so they can progress in their career path. Faculty & Staff are encouraged to attend PD to build capacity through continuing education learning opportunities that are both internal and external (i.e., seminars, professional certifications, conferences, higher education courses, and mentorship programs).
  7. Renovation of Academic Buildings - Mr. Jermaine Thomas
    This activity includes evaluating the institution’s long-range needs to determine strategies that will positively impact our campus. The major focus for the 2024-25 grant period will be improvements on the Pfeiffer Science Building, Holgate Library, Global Learning Center, JMS Heating Plant, Steele Hall, Chapel/Little Theatre, Carnegie Library, and the Catchings Health Complex.
  8. Healthy Whole Student (Well Belle) - Mr. Jermaine Thomas
    This activity prioritizes the holistic development of our students. As part of the development, the aim is to empower our students to discover, receive, and participate in caring for their body, mind, spirit, and environment within and through our campus community.