As part CCA’s Annual Convening, Momentum 2016, Thurgood Marshall College Fund President and CEO Johnny C. Taylor, Jr. discusses TMCF’s addition as the 41st member of the CCA Alliance and describes the important work ahead to close achievement gaps in our nation’s HBCUs and MSIs.
Leaders of Historically Black Colleges and Universities are searching for ways to work with the incoming Trump administration.
The Thurgood Marshall College Fund’s (TMCF) President & CEO Johnny C. Taylor, Jr. names Emily M. Dickens, J.D. as TMCF’s Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Chief Relationship Officer.
The Trump transition began its outreach to the African-American community Wednesday afternoon with an event billed as a “listening session” in Washington, led by former Apprentice contestant Omarosa Manigault.
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.