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This week, Google officials announced they would dramatically expand a partnership with Howard University to bring more students from historically black colleges to the company.
The announcement builds on a pilot program launched last summer that brought 26 computer-science students from Howard to study and work at Google’s campus. Company officials emphasized that the program reflects the company’s efforts to integrate more diversity in its workforce, especially at a time when the tech industry has come under criticism for lacking integration.
Under the new program, about 100 students from Howard will come to Google’s Mountain View campus starting this fall. Those students are expected to spend nine months studying at the company.
Good! Both Google and Facebook could use a little “color” around their incredibly insulated & segregated campuses. Maybe they’ll learn a little something about reality from their “guests” to inform their “Artificial Intelligence” pursuits.