December 18, 2020
MacKenzie Scott’s surprise gift of $700 million to HBCUs and other colleges seen as ‘transformational’
With no advance notice, the billionaire’s representatives launched a flurry of emails and telephone calls this year to unsuspecting colleges and universities across the country dedicated to serving large numbers of Black, Latino and Native American students.
In early October, one such message reached Harold L. Martin, chancellor of North Carolina A&T State University, the nation’s largest historically Black university.
Martin called back and found a person speaking on behalf of a donor who wante