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NILKA THOMAS: The HBCU Faculty Summit is Google's annual
opportunity to meet with faculty and
educators from HBCUs.
We bring them to Google to focus on things like
curriculum and ways that they can better service the needs
of their students.
YOHANCE C. MAQUBELA: Unfortunately, across the
country, historically black colleges and universities are
under-resourced with compared to our majority peers.
The university and Google partnered together to create
an innovative middle school computer science curriculum
that is intended to engage students across the board.
DR. JEAN MUHAMMAD: We want them to go to the best, which
is Google, and be able to compete, and be able to
contribute to a company like Google.
TARA CANOBBIO: This year we relaunched the program.
It was in five cities.
It had 110 students.
We're finding that the number of African-Americans in the
computer science field is severely under-represented.
So we want to ensure that the students that they're reaching
at the graduate, and undergraduate, and elementary
school level are being given the opportunities and shown
the possibility that computer science presents.
DR. YUVAY MEYERS: This is my third year attending.
And I decided to come for another year because we have
the best discussions about how to integrate new technology
into the classroom.
And just how do we get our students to be where they need
to be in order to excel in this new market we have?
DR. NICKI WASHINGTON: They don't even understand how to
begin to go from a consumer to a creator.
So if we added that culturally relevant piece, wouldn't that
be something that we could take and not only use at the
middle schools, but then use as a model for other middle
schools in the DC area and across the country to begin to
incorporate computer science into students' regular
curriculum?
NILKA THOMAS: Fundamentally, we believe that diversity is
more than the right thing to do.
It's actually a business imperative.
And when we build diversity into our workforce, we're
better able to service our users.
YOLANDA MANGOLINI: Google believes that it has a role to
play in helping the HBCUs meet their missions.
YOHANCE C. MAQUBELA: To be able to send students out of
our programs on a level where they know that they can step
in with an interview at a company like Google and feel
100% confident, 100% secure in what their skills and
capabilities are is a tremendous--
that's the end result.