Topline : Robert F. Smith, the billionaire investor who erased the student debt of Morehouse College’s Class of 2019, has launched an internship program for ethnically underrepresented students.
, will guarantee 1,000 students from ethnically underrepresented groups a paid summer internship in the STEM field.
AT&T, PriceWaterhouseCoopers, Deloitte and CitiGroup are reportedly among the companies that will take InternX candidates, theSmith is the founder and CEO of Vista Equity Partners, a New York-based investment firm focused on software, data and technology.Smith made headlines last month when he announced during his commencement speech that he would pay off the student loan debt of each graduate of Morehouse College’s 2019 graduating class.
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