As part of the gift, Duke will support graduate and professional students who hold bachelor’s degrees from HBCUs and other minority-serving institutions — likely through direct financial assistance and outreach, Price said. The support will be given to graduates of HBCUs and MSIs in the Carolinas. In doing so, Price said, they hope to ensure that graduate and professional students have a diversity of talents.

“We have a firm institutional commitment to creating access and opportunity for students, particularly students who haven’t had the resources of an institution like Duke University,” Price said. “So, making sure that we bring into Duke, a class that is socioeconomically diverse, racially and ethnically diverse, geographically diverse, that we have rural students alongside students who come from urban centers around the world — that rich diversity has tremendous educational benefit to every single student, faculty or staff member.”

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