World Bank Group Presidential Visit | Atlanta University Center

111 James P Brawley Drive Southwest,Atlanta GA 30314

05 May, 2023

Description

World Bank Group President David Malpass will deliver remarks at the AUC Robert Woodruff Library in the Atlanta University Center Consortium - the oldest and largest contiguous consortium of African American higher education institutions in the United States consisting of Clark Atlanta University, Spelman College, Morehouse College, and the Morehouse School of Medicine. HBCUs are universities founded before 1964 and are in large part responsible for creating America’s black middle class, offering insight to challenges faced by communities of color. This transferable insight is pivotal to the WBG HBCUs initiative and key to its ongoing efforts to help facilitate ideas and input from diverse partners. On September 22, 2022, the World Bank Group created a pilot program to engage HBCUs that will promote the sharing of knowledge and talent between the development and learning institutions to advance more inclusive and sustainable social and economic development. In addition, the initiative will promote greater awareness and understanding of international development and the work of the World Bank Group at the HBCUs. This initiative provides a framework for the World Bank Group to draw on the rich talent and research of HBCU students and faculty while giving them access to the World Bank Group's deep pool of development knowledge, data, analytics, and projects.