Walker’s Legacy: Partnering to Launch Women of Color in Tech
The Walker’s Legacy Foundation, the Thurgood Marshall College Fund, and Comcast have each made commitments to empowering their communities through philanthropy.
Hampton University Junior Designs Apps for Teachers, Students (the Pitch 2019 Winner)
JoinMi is meant for connecting college students who are looking for friends to help complete tasks such as playing basketball, studying, or even splitting a pizza.
VSU student chosen to intern with famous actor Terrance J
Hodges was awarded a $15,000 summer internship scholarship from the Thurgood Marshall College Fund (TMCF) that was presented at the BET Weekend Brotherhood Dinner in Los Angeles, CA.
Mcdonald’s Black & Positively Golden Movement Empowers Aspiring Women Entrepreneurs on Journey to Create Generational Wealth During 25th Essence Festival
The Golden Arches provides opportunities to help up-and-comers boss up with inspiring events throughout the weekend
Summer Internship Gives Latori Gregory Insight into Her Future
Latori Gregory, a senior business administration major, is spending her summer interning with Blue Cross Blue Shield North Carolina.
Bridging the Gap on Accountability
Democrats are talking more about how failures happen across the higher education system, not just at for-profit colleges — their traditional punching bag. So can they agree with Republicans on new standards for all colleges?
Thurgood Marshall College Fund Calls on Congress to Swiftly Pass the Bipartisan Future Act Legislation
Under the FUTURE Act, HBCUs will continue to receive $85 million in mandatory funding, based on existing formula funding, and PBIs will continue to be eligible for a competitive grant program funded at $15 million, with each school eligible for grants up to $600,000. TMCF represents the 47 publicly-supported HBCUs and PBIs.
HBCU White Paper on HBCU Sustainability Released by TMCF
TMCF partnered with AASCU and MLI, during their 2018 annual meeting to host the HBCU Sustainability Summit resulting in the white paper being released today.
Thurgood Marshall College Fund Welcomes Four New Corporate Executives to Board Of Directors
I am proud to see our TMCF Board continue to attract some of the most impressive corporate executives who are committed to diversity, higher education and creating meaningful opportunities for the students we proudly represent in our 47 member-school network.
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.
Johnson: ‘you Can’t Learn Too Much,’ Says Alabama State Student, Aspiring Software Engineer
A Thurgood Marshall Fund Scholar who just completed his sophomore year at ASU, Keith (his full first name is Keithbridges, but he goes by Keith) will make his first trip to California’s Silicon Valley next week for Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference—an annual confab of coders, tech creatives and other industry leaders featuring design workshops, hands-on labs and other geekish interactions.
Winning HBCU Team Creates App for School Teachers at TMCF’s the Pitch 2019 Competition
The app is designed to make the process of grading papers more efficient allowing them more time to spend with their students. Team members won a MacBook, and DJI Mavic Air drone.
Lynn Graduates Receive Words Of Advice from Author James Patterson During Commencement
Fortunately, Johnson is one of the few students to graduate without significant debt thanks to scholarships he’s received, including one through the Thurgood Marshall College Fund.