Microsoft Aids Black Public College Technology Program
By Ronald Roach
WASHINGTON, D.C.
Microsoft has announced a $15 million software grant to the Thurgood Marshall Scholarship Fund (TMSF) technology initiative, which is a multi-year effort to raise more than $100 million to upgrade technology at public historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs). The software grant will be distributed to TMSF institutions through a competitive process designed to identify the schools best prepared to take advantage of the technology.
On Capitol Hill in late February, Congressional Black Caucus members, including Black Caucus chairman U.S. Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, D-Md., were on hand as TMSF President Dwayne Ashley accepted the donation on behalf of the TMSF’s 45 public HBCUs in 22 states, Washington, D.C., and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
