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Norton to Congratulate UDC at 40th Anniversary Founders’ Day Celebration, Tomorrow

February 17, 2016

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) will give remarks at the University of the District of Columbia’s (UDC) 40th Anniversary Founders’ Day Celebration tomorrow, February 18, 2016, at 10:00 a.m., on UDC’s Van Ness Campus at the Theater of the Arts Auditorium (Connecticut Ave. at Windom Circle, NW).

“We are particularly proud of UDC, which has the largest number of D.C. residents of any university in the District of Columbia,” Norton said. “That speaks volumes about UDC’s contributions to our residents and our economy. This year of commemoration is particularly notable. This Founders’ Day, we are pleased to welcome new President Ronald Mason, Jr. to UDC, one of the nation’s oldest Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU), created in 1851, as our university celebrates its 40th anniversary of the merging of its three colleges into the University of the District of Columbia.”

Norton is a longtime champion in the Congress for UDC and has secured new benefits for the university. In 1999, when Norton introduced and later won passage of the D.C. College Access Act, which established the D.C. Tuition Assistance Grant (DCTAG) program, she also insisted and got UDC eligible for the first time for federal HBCU funding.