2019

New Report Offers Strategies for Preserving the Future of HBCUs

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.

Hennessy Fellows Program Commits $10 Million to HBCUs

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

100 HBCU STUDENTS SELECTED FOR TMCF’S ‘THE PITCH 2019’ INNOVATION AND ENTREPRENEURIAL COMPETITION PRESENTED BY APPLE

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, Comcast and Thurgood Marshall College Fund Team Up To Celebrate Women of Color in Technology

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.

Organizations Support, Empower Women of Color in Tech

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.

To Restore Second Chances, Restore Opportunity for All

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.