Allan Hancock College has received a new grant that will save students millions of dollars by granting free textbooks and other open-learning materials.
EL PASO, Texas – Students from The University of Texas at El Paso will have more opportunities to train for competitive jobs in the energy industry through a $1 million grant from the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA).
The grant part of a program that exposes underrepresented students to energy systems research and prepares them for the workforce was awarded to Norman Love, Ph.D., associate dean for academic affairs and undergraduate studies with the College of Engineering and professor of mechanical engineering, in collaboration with the University’s Campus Office of Undergraduate Research Initiatives (COURI).
UTEP received a portion of the $5 million NNSA grant as a partner institution in the Consortium for Hybrid and Resilient Energy Systems (CHRES), led by Ana G. Méndez University in Puerto Rico. The consortium supports, educates and trains the next generation of Hispanic engineers and scientists in energy systems integration by providing year-round a
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Blackstone (NYSE: BX) today announced that the Blackstone Charitable Foundation will expand its LaunchPad program to support underrepresented students and communities. Going forward, LaunchPad will focus on colleges and universities that have a majority diverse population or are serving under-resourced communities. With a $40 million commitment, LaunchPad will increase its program from 30 to 75 campuses over the next five years. The Foundation will work with UNCF, the largest scholarship provider for students of color, as a strategic advisor to help identify schools appropriate for growth, develop plans to support students, and use their platform to amplify LaunchPad’s mission.
This builds on a series of firmwide initiatives to further advance Blackstone’s commitment to diversity and inclusion, including the two recently announced initiatives: a firmwide mandate to target a least one-third diverse repr
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Liberal NBCUniversal News Group has decided to give back by launching an initiative it said would address systemic racism and inequality by you guessed it singling out individuals based on race and other identity groups.
Leftist cable communications company Comcast put out a press release Jan. 14, 2021 discussing which “underrepresented groups” are the priority for NBCU News Group’s new “multiplatform journalism training and development program.” In the press release, Comcast announced that the new initiative, called NBCU Academy, would be part of the “multi-year $100 million commitment to help address systemic racism and inequality” that was announced back in June 2020. Another part of the leftist outfits plan included announcing its Fifty Percent Challenge Initiative, announced in July 2020. The initiative challenged NBCU to become 50 percent people of color and 50 percent women.