After announcing its $100 million Racial Equity and Justice Initiative last month, Apple has today announced that it is expanding its education partnerships with Historically Black Colleges and Universities. Notably, the learning opportunities and workforce development will go beyond the newly added campuses and impact local communities as well.
Apple announced the expansion of its coding and creativity education efforts with 10 new Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) in a Newsroom post:
Apple’s Lisa Jackson commented on the expansion:
Apple highlights that its Community Education Initiative now includes 24 locations in the US with half of them being HBCUs and 21 of them “predominately serve majority Black and Brown students.” Thousands of students have already been able to learn with Apple’s Everyone Can Code and Everyone Can Create curricula.
“In two years, I want all HBCUs to be coding and creating,” said Melton. “In two years, you’re going to see many more people of color entering the STEM workforce — and in two years we’re going to double the number of Black women in technology through this program.”
Tennessee State University’s Dr. Robbie Melton
Here’s the full list of the 10 new HBCUs that are part of Apple’s latest expansion:
Learn more about Apple’s latest education efforts in the full announcement post here.
