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“Our Opportunity Funding Corporation is the future of TMCF because we are literally identifying the next generation of global entrepreneurs from the Black College Community,” said Dr. Harry L. Williams, TMCF president & CEO.”

The program is designed to “train future innovators from historically black colleges and universities in the skills needed to generate economic success.”

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.

Presidents for Historically Black Colleges and Universities returned to Washington for their second annual conference on Capitol Hill Tuesday, unable to cite more than a few measurable victories in the year since Congressional Republicans and the new Trump White House promised to promote and support the institutions.

WASHINGTON, DC – (March 2, 2018) – The Vivian Burey Marshall Academy (VBMA) was awarded the Governor’s Award for Exemplary Partnerships by the Mississippi Association of Partners in Education.

Vicksburg Warren School district, along with the U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center, Alcorn State, Jackson State and the Vivian Burey Marshall Academy, also won a Governor’s Award for Exemplary Partnerships.

Many present at that February 2017 meeting reunited this Tuesday at an event announcing John C. Taylor Jr. as chairman of a White House advisory board on HBCUs, where Trump reiterated his commitment to HBCUs as “a major priority of our administration.”

HBCU leaders this week got a chance to reacquaint members of Congress and administration officials with their priorities at the Hill event organized by Senator Tim Scott, a South Carolina Republican, and Representative Mark Walker, a North Carolina Republican.

Johnny C. Taylor Jr. will be chairman of the President’s Board of Advisors on Historically Black Colleges and Universities, a group of more than 100 institutions that were created at a time when most universities did not allow minorities to enroll.

Winston-Salem State University Launches Groundbreaking Program to Spur Social Mobility Funded by the Thurgood Marshall College Fund’s Center for Advancing Opportunity.

To celebrate the milestone, Honda has created an annual scholarship fund for students pursuing educations in engineering, manufacturing, and supply chain at Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs), starting with a $25,000 donation to the Thurgood Marshall College Fund.

The president’s nontraditional selection for chairman of his advisory board on Historically Black Colleges and Universities signals his new priorities for the sector.

Nine months after he was shot during a congressional baseball practice in Alexandria, House Majority Whip Steve Scalise will drop the puck at the 10th annual Congressional Hockey Championship on March 15.