Stillman College, a private Presbyterian HBCU in Alabama, and North Carolina Central University, an HBCU in Durham, North Carolina, both recently received $1 million donations from Google, representing the latest efforts to strengthen the tech giant’s commitment to diversifying the cybersecurity field.
According to Al.com , Stillman’s donation came on Dec. 17 in honor of the Oct. 5 death of Kevin Lamar Harris, who founded the university’s HBCU Cybersecurity Clinic in 2022 and also received credit for playing a “pivotal role” in getting a $500,000 donation from Google’s Cybersecurity Clinics Fund in 2023.
According to a press release from the university announcing the donation , Maab Ibrahim, Google’s cybersecurity lead, said that Harris was the inspiration for the technology company’s funding of additional clinics at other HBCUs and minority serving institutions…