Morehouse College Receives $700,000 In Software Technology From TMCF
The Thurgood Marshall College Fund (TMCF) awarded over $700,000 in Microsoft software from its ongoing Technology Initiative to Morehouse College – the first non- TMCF member-school to receive such support.

The TMCF Technology Initiative was created to address long-term technology needs of HBCU campuses and to identify funding sources to support technology upgrades. In April 2000, TMCF commissioned a comprehensive study of technology usage at its 47 member-schools, publicly-supported Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs). From that study, TMCF identified there were major needs and opportunities to upgrade technology at its member-schools.

“HBCUs look to TMCF for new opportunities and solutions, like this, to assist them with building their capacity as they continue to serve the students matriculating on their campuses,” says TMCF president & CEO Johnny C. Taylor, Jr. “Using technology to improve educational outcomes is a must today; and, we are excited to provide Morehouse with these resources to assist them in building their technology capacity.”

Since its inception, Microsoft has been a technology partner of the Initiative, and recently awarded TMCF with an additional $8 million software grant for 2013 and 2014. The Microsoft grant makes available Microsoft software and licenses across the spectrum of Microsoft products, including operating system software, desktop applications, programming, server, site management, and instructional software. The goal of the grant is to enable TMCF to assist HBCUs in upgrading institutional computers and technology.

“We are excited that the Thurgood Marshall College Fund considered Morehouse for this much-needed donation,” says Morehouse College president Dr. John Silvanus Wilson, Jr. “Improving our technology infrastructure will allow us to serve our students, faculty, staff, and the community- at-large in a more robust living-learning environment.”

As the nation’s largest, private liberal arts college for men, Morehouse College was found - ed in 1867 and celebrated a huge milestone in 2013 — the 100th anniversary of the name change from Augusta Baptist College to Morehouse College in 1913. Morehouse College, which as a total undergraduate enrollment of 2,189, was recently recognized as the number one liberal arts college in the nation.