Month: February 2021

Florida Memorial University has been selected by Google, in partnership with the Thurgood Marshall College Fund (TMCF), to participate in the Grow with Google’s (GwG) HBCU Career Readiness Program. This new initiative will embed HBCU student jobseeker resources into a select number of Historically Black Colleges & Universities (HBCU) career services centers, with the goal of helping 100,000 Black students gain digital skills needed to find and land entry level jobs and internships and to be successful in the workplace. The funds will support activities with the Intentional Readiness for Occupational Acquisition and Retention (iROAR) Program, and the FMU Career Development Center.

     In response to this latest Executive Order, Melanie L. Campbell, President of the National Coalition on Black Civic Participation (NCBCP) and Convener of the Black Women’s Roundtable (BWR), shares her thoughts: “This is a tremendous executive action that President Biden has taken in prioritizing the need for affordable health care in the Biden Administration’s First 100 Days.  This action to re-open the ACA insurance marketplace will be extremely helpful, especially for those finding themselves without healthcare during the worst pandemic in American history. 

     “The vision of the position is to use objective information and analytics to create and support a culture of inclusion and belonging where individuals from all diversity dimensions, racial and ethnic identities, ages, nationalities, social and economic status, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, religious, political and ideological perspectives, and physical and mental abilities, are able to thrive and be actively engaged,” her letter continued.