April 27, 2001

Study Documents the Technology Needs of Public Black Colleges

By FLORENCE OLSEN

A new report says that historically and traditionally black public colleges and universities will need about $700-million to meet their information-technology goals for the next five years.

The report, released this month, was commissioned by the Thurgood Marshall Scholarship Fund of New York, a nonprofit organization that finances programs and scholarships for its 44 members.

Institutions belonging to the organization represent 77 percent of the students who graduate from

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