Presidential Document2023-21638
Asian American and Native American Pacific Islander-Serving Institutions Week, 2023
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September 28, 2023
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September 22, 2023
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[Federal Register Volume 88, Number 187 (Thursday, September 28, 2023)]
[Presidential Documents]
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From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2023-21638]
Presidential Documents
Federal Register / Vol. 88, No. 187 / Thursday, September 28, 2023 /
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Proclamation 10629 of September 22, 2023
Asian American and Native American Pacific
Islander-Serving Institutions Week, 2023
By the President of the United States of America
A Proclamation
During National Asian American and Native American
Pacific Islander-Serving Institutions (AANAPISIs) Week,
we celebrate all the possibilities that these
institutions unlock for Asian American, Native
Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander (AA and NHPI) students,
particularly those from low-income, first-generation,
and underrepresented backgrounds. Every generation of
Americans has benefited by opening the doors of
opportunity to include those who have been left behind.
By putting higher education within reach of AA and NHPI
students, our Nation's nearly 200 AANAPISIs embody my
belief that diversity is our strength as a Nation.
For so many, higher education is a ticket to a better
life. But while talent, creativity, and determination
are found in people all across this country, not
everyone has an equal shot at higher education. AA and
NHPI communities encompass more than 50 ethnicities
with a variety of identities, cultures, histories, and
backgrounds--many come from lower-income backgrounds,
or are the first in their family to graduate college,
indigenous, or recent immigrants, or have faced a
legacy of discrimination in our Nation. That is why the
work of our AANAPISIs is so critical for broadening the
opportunity of higher education to more Americans and
realizing the full potential of AA and NHPI
communities.
AANAPISIs enroll nearly half of all AA and NHPI
undergraduates, and they confer almost 50 percent of
associate degrees and nearly 30 percent of
baccalaureate degrees of all AA and NHPI students.
These vital institutions empower students to earn
degrees and reach their full potential while providing
culturally responsive services and culturally
sustaining programs that include tutoring, advising,
career development and counseling, and more. With the
Supreme Court's recent decision to effectively end
affirmative action in college admissions, the work to
make higher education accessible to all is as essential
as ever. We need to keep open the doors of
opportunities and ensure that the promise of America is
big enough for everyone to succeed.
My Administration is committed to strengthening these
critical institutions and supporting our Nation's AA
and NHPI communities. Through the American Rescue Plan,
we have invested $5 billion in AANAPISIs. Further, I
re-established the White House Initiative on Asian
Americans, Native Hawaiians, and Pacific Islanders, and
I released a National Strategy to Advance Equity,
Justice, and Opportunity for AA and NHPI Communities--
addressing everything from combating anti-Asian hate to
making Government services more accessible.
We are also fighting to make higher education more
affordable for students across the country. My
Administration has increased Pell Grants for low-income
families by the largest amount in over a decade and
fixed the Public Service Loan Forgiveness program so
borrowers who become teachers, police officers, social
workers, service members, and other public servants get
the debt relief they are entitled to under the law.
When the Supreme Court wrongly struck down our most
ambitious student debt relief plan
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ever, we moved immediately to open an alternative path
to debt relief that could further reduce costs for many
AA and NHPI borrowers. My Saving on a Valuable
Education (SAVE) plan will cut payments on
undergraduate loans in half, bring many low-income
borrowers' loan payments to $0 per month, and provide
early forgiveness for borrowers with low balances.
This generation of students is the most gifted,
talented, and tolerant in American history--and it is
up to all of us to give them the resources and
opportunity they need to reach their full potential.
During Asian American and Native American Pacific
Islander-Serving Institutions Week, may we recommit to
supporting these institutions as they raise the next
generation of AA and NHPI dreamers and doers.
NOW, THEREFORE, I, JOSEPH R. BIDEN JR., President of
the United States of America, by virtue of the
authority vested in me by the Constitution and the laws
of the United States, do hereby proclaim September 25
through October 1, 2023, as Asian American and Native
American Pacific Islander-Serving Institutions Week. I
call on public officials, educators, and all the people
of the United States to observe this week with
appropriate programs, ceremonies, and activities that
acknowledge the many ways these institutions and their
graduates contribute to our country.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this
twenty-second day of September, in the year of our Lord
two thousand twenty-three, and of the Independence of
the United States of America the two hundred and forty-
eighth.
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[FR Doc. 2023-21638
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