Bowie State University Receives $1M Donation From Adobe To Increase Tech Talent Pipeline

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BOWIE, Md. (WJZ) — Officials astatine Bowie State University announced that the schoolhouse has received a $1 cardinal donation from Adobe arsenic portion of the Adobe Anchor School Program.

“This caller concern with Adobe volition alteration Bowie State to amplify the enactment we’ve already begun to make an entrepreneurial situation for innovation, enabling greater supports for expanding integer literacy successful our information sciences and analytics, cyber information and integer media programs,” said BSU President Aminta H. Breaux. “We applaud Adobe for providing training, internships and integer tools for divers students to make the skills that volition presumption them to bring caller perspectives into exertion companies.”

The Adobe Anchor School Program is utilized to physique partnerships with HBCUs and Hispanic Serving Institutions to assistance students funny successful tech careers make creativity and integer skills.

The programme volition supply 100 scholarships of up to $15,000 for students of color. It volition besides supply resources and opportunities to assistance hole students for the future.

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“Longstanding alteration requires a condemnation to innovative solutions and a willingness to lead,” said Brian Miller, Adobe’s main talent, diverseness & inclusion officer. “We volition strategically put successful providing students with training, vocation readiness, internships, fiscal assistance and integer tools to substance their nonrecreational careers astatine Adobe oregon elsewhere.”