Aiming to “be a bridge for talented graduates of HBCU and the Fortune 500 companies looking to employ them,” the ivy league institution started offering the HBCU fellowship this past summer.
Around 100 students from 38 historically black colleges and universities traveled to downtown Durham for the Thurgood Marshall College Fund’s week-long Opportunity Funding Corporation program – a crash course in business startups.
Rocky Mount resident N. Joyce Payne, founder of the nationally-recognized Thurgood Marshall College Fund, has been appointed to the N.C. Council for Women by Gov. Roy Cooper.
“Through scholarships, internships, on-campus engagements, and immersive opportunities at Boeing, we hope to inspire and enable HBCU students to pursue careers in the aerospace industry.”
“Through scholarships, internships, on-campus engagements, and immersive opportunities at Boeing, we hope to inspire and enable HBCU students to pursue careers in the aerospace industry.”
TMCF applauds President Trump’s appointment of Johnny C. Taylor, Jr. as chairman of the President’s Board of Advisor’s on Historically Black Colleges and Universities.