Adobe Inc. is giving Bowie State University $1 million as part of its new Adobe Anchor School Program designed to prepare Black and Hispanic students for future careers in the tech industry.
Adobe selected Bowie State, Maryland’s oldest historically Black university, as one of the program’s inaugural members. Adobe (NASDAQ: ADBE) wants to partner with more HBCUs and Hispanic-serving institutions to expand the program’s reach, the company announced Tuesday.
After Amazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) chose Arlington for its second headquarters, teeing up tens of thousands of job openings over the next decade, a slew of Greater Washington’s higher education institutions rushed to build out their tech education curriculums and workforce development to supplement the industry’s need for talent.
Since then, a wave of funding has flowed into those institutions, particularly HBCUs, to fill an even bigger gap in Greater Washington’s tech workforce: people of color and women. In June,…
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