The Legacy program, a collaboration between seven predominantly white and historically Black colleges, planned to work with 600 students from Mississippi, Ohio, Michigan and Alabama through 2028.

The college announced the gift in a news release, saying $4 million will go to establish an endowed chair in computer science, with the remainder divided among a fund for curricular development ...

Legacy was an expansion of an Alabama program that began in 2019. Initial results showed 72% of 71 of the Black girls who participated received a score of 3 or higher on the AP test.