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Client Spotlight: National Society of Black Engineers

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and Fred Cooper–approached the dean of engineering at Purdue University with the vision of starting an organization dedicated to improving the recruitment and retention rates of Black students in the engineering school. Barnette, Jr. The organization now boasts over 790 chapters worldwide.

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Net2Local: Year-End Revelations

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China, Cameroon, Uganda and Kenya. These regional events allow us to get Net2Local organizers from different cities face-to-face, which deepens their engagement and increases retention. (We’d We’ve already held Camps in. We’d love to bring them all to San Francisco, but that would be too expensive!)