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Latori Gregory, a senior business administration major, is spending her summer interning with Blue Cross Blue Shield North Carolina.

Democrats are talking more about how failures happen across the higher education system, not just at for-profit colleges — their traditional punching bag. So can they agree with Republicans on new standards for all colleges?

Under the FUTURE Act, HBCUs will continue to receive $85 million in mandatory funding, based on existing formula funding, and PBIs will continue to be eligible for a competitive grant program funded at $15 million, with each school eligible for grants up to $600,000. TMCF represents the 47 publicly-supported HBCUs and PBIs.

TMCF partnered with AASCU and MLI, during their 2018 annual meeting to host the HBCU Sustainability Summit resulting in the white paper being released today.

I am proud to see our TMCF Board continue to attract some of the most impressive corporate executives who are committed to diversity, higher education and creating meaningful opportunities for the students we proudly represent in our 47 member-school network.

First and foremost, sustaining and growing student enrollment is the key to a brighter future for HBCUs, according to educational leaders who participated in discussions that led to the report.

The fellowship awards will be available to students in a variety of undergraduate majors from liberal arts to sciences and engineering.

TMCF’s newly re-designed Innovation & Entrepreneurship Division identified the talented HBCU students who will develop solutions to business, social, or educational problems and pitch their ideas to an expert panel of judges.

Walker’s Legacy is proud to announce its ‘Women of Color in Tech’ tour powered by Comcast and the Thurgood Marshall College Fund to showcase multicultural women in technology.

Last year, Walker’s Legacy and TMCF established a memorandum of understanding that would foster collaborations on programming that creates pipelines to the tech world for TMCF’s 47 member institutions.

There is much to do in Chicago and elsewhere, according to the latest State of Opportunity in America Report by the Center for Advancing Opportunity, which Koch Industries and the Charles Koch Foundation formed in 2017, in partnership with the Thurgood Marshall College Fund.

A Thurgood Marshall Fund Scholar who just completed his sophomore year at ASU, Keith (his full first name is Keithbridges, but he goes by Keith) will make his first trip to California’s Silicon Valley next week for Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference—an annual confab of coders, tech creatives and other industry leaders featuring design workshops, hands-on labs and other geekish interactions.