2020

Former President Barack Obama will participate in the May 16 event, hosted by Kevin Hart, featuring Debbie Allen, Steve Harvey, Chris Paul, Wyclef Jean, Chase Consumer Banking CEO Thasunda Brown Duckett, and others NEW YORK, May 13, 2020 – Like most academic institutions around the country, Historically Black Colleges and Universities have been forced to […]

HEROES ACT Provides $1.7 Billion in Emergency Aid to HBCUs, PBIs and other MSIs WASHINGTON, DC (May 12, 2020) – The Thurgood Marshall College Fund (TMCF) extends its sincere thanks to Speaker Nancy Pelosi and House Leadership for introducing another important piece of legislation that responds to the particularized challenges that HBCUs, PBIs and other […]

HBCUS PROVIDE SO MANY STUDENTS WITH OPPORTUNITIES TO ACHIEVE GREATNESS. WE MUST PROTECT THESE INSTITUTIONS. When Soinknē “Sunny” Morant first visited Xavier University in New Orleans, she felt right at home. The leafy campus brimmed with bright, young Black scholars. “Nobody in my family has ever gone to college,” says Morant, a pre-med biology major […]

Jonathan Jones will graduate this spring from Florida A&M University (FAMU) with a double master’s degree in Business Administration and Supply Chain Management. He was awarded a $10,000 fellowship as part of the inaugural class of Hennessy Fellows has accepted a full-time position with Louis Vuitton as a distribution planning manager. Jones finishes his MBA […]

Dive Brief: The U.S. Department of Education will give an additional $1 billion in coronavirus relief to minority-serving institutions, including historically black and tribal colleges, as well as to select other schools that serve high shares of low-income students. The funds are part of the $14 billion in aid directed to colleges in the Coronavirus […]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE WASHINGTON, DC (April 30, 2020) – The Thurgood Marshall College Fund (TMCF) praised United States Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos for securing nearly $577 million in additional funding to help historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) continue to operate in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic. Today, Secretary DeVos consulted with the […]