Joshua Smith and Morgan Whitaker
In 2018, Northeast Baltimore’s Morgan State University joined a group of 10 Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) participating in the Google Tech Exchange program. It meant that five students from Morgan State went to Google’s campus in Silicon Valley for a semester to take part in an advanced computer science training program.
The Google Tech Exchange partnership was geared toward increasing the number of Black and Latinx students getting exposure to the tech industry. It offered students at (HBCUs) and Hispanic Serving Institutions real world experience at a tech giant through applied computer science courses and tech industry projects.
It launched as, between 2014 and 2019, the number U.S. technical employees who are Black or Latinx rose by less than a percentage point at Google and Microsoft, according to reporting by Wired, based on numbers self-reported by the tech giants.
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