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Thurgood Marshall College Fund established the Center for Advancing Opportunity with a $25.6 million gift from the Charles Koch Foundation and Koch Industries. The Center will engage faculty at Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs), as well as undergraduate and graduate students at HBCUs and majority colleges and universities, to enable scholars to conduct research to fill gaps in our understanding of the challenges fragile communities face and the steps that can be made to address them.

Listen here as HBCU Digest host Jarett Carter interviews TMCF President & CEO Johnny C. Taylor, Jr. and Koch Foundation President Brian Hooks about the new $26 million partnership to benefit research at historically black colleges and universities, and how it will benefit the nation at large.

Center for Advancing Opportunity will support HBCU researchers and work with Gallup to understand, and inform pressing issues in fragile communities

The Rites of Passage ceremony, held on Sunday, included featured speaker Johnny C. Taylor, Jr., President and CEO of the Thurgood Marshall College Fund.

The Thurgood Marshall College Fund (TMCF) mourns the loss and celebrates the legacy of former National Newspaper Association News Service (NNPA) editor-in-chief and Emerge Magazine’s Founder and Publisher, George E. Curry.

Diversifying the pool of STEM students and workers across the country is an especially hot funding area lately.