Administrators and career service leaders at some of the nation’s top historically Black colleges and universities, also known as HBCUs, say recruitment of their students and graduates by major corporations has dramatically increased since the police murder of George Floyd more than a year ago.
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IBM announced Friday it has extended its IBM Global University Program with historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) to 40 schools. Here are the details.
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In the wake of Apple’s RTP move, local HBCUs and community are now calling on the tech giant to follow up on its pledges for more tech diversity.
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As a Black man in the South, as a marketing CEO, as a Certified Diversity Executive and as a business leader who wants to build the best environment for innovation and productivity, what HBCUs represent is a powerful example of both the value of belonging and of a failure to invest in strategic brand positioning.
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Today IBM announced a slate of new members for the Center, with 10 historically Black colleges and universities joining the Center’s 13 founding institutions. Among them: North Carolina Central University.
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As part of its commitment to build a more equitable world, Intel will donate $5 million over the next five years to North Carolina Central University (NCCU), a historically Black college and university (HBCU), to create a new tech law and policy center.
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A $1.5 million gift from the North Carolina GlaxoSmithKline Foundation will help community college students pursue science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) degrees at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University in Greensboro.
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Leaders of five historically Black colleges and universities met with Google CEO Sundar Pichai on Friday to discuss the company’s relationship with the schools in the wake of anti-HBCU-graduate discrimination allegations made by a former Google employee.
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Google today announced the expansion of the Grow with Google HBCU Career Readiness Program into sixteen new Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs), including North Carolina Central University and Saint Augustine’s University in North Carolina.
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