{"id":132227,"date":"2025-08-28T13:55:50","date_gmt":"2025-08-28T21:55:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/08\/28\/intel-drops-funding-hbcu-legal-pipeline\/"},"modified":"2025-08-28T13:55:50","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T21:55:50","slug":"intel-drops-funding-hbcu-legal-pipeline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/08\/28\/intel-drops-funding-hbcu-legal-pipeline\/","title":{"rendered":"Intel Drops Funding HBCU Legal Pipeline"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>More diversity crackdown news. Intel, known mostly for their chip production, awarded North Carolina Central University law school a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nccu.edu\/law\/academics\/techlawcenter\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">$5M grant in 2021 meant to foster diversity in the legal landscape<\/a>. There was probably hope that Intel would renew the grant after it ran its course. That hope all but vanished not long after the U.S. happened to take a a 10% stake in the company. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.bloomberglaw.com\/daily-labor-report\/intel-ends-funding-for-hbcu-legal-pipeline-amid-trump-deal\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bloomberg Law<\/a> has coverage:<\/p>\n<p>NCCU said in a statement to Bloomberg Law that it has received from Intel the \u201cfinal round of funding\u201d needed to run the [Technology Law and Policy Center]\u2026\u201cWhile the formal partnership will not be extended, the Center will continue to foster innovation, drive critical conversations, and prepare students to thrive in the rapidly evolving tech landscape, as the university actively pursues new funding opportunities to sustain and expand its impact,\u201d the school said.<\/p>\n<p>The silver lining is that the end of the Intel funding isn\u2019t the end of the program. It is vital that law schools adopt to the technological changes that will direct their career, be it by incorporating lessons on how to practice using help from LLMs or knowing how to make the most of if and when the AI bubble pops. Best of luck to the TLPC!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.bloomberglaw.com\/daily-labor-report\/intel-ends-funding-for-hbcu-legal-pipeline-amid-trump-deal\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Intel Ends Funding for HBCU Legal Pipeline Amid Trump Deal<\/a> [Bloomberg Law]<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignright is-resized\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"512\" height=\"288\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/abovethelaw.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2025\/06\/Chris-Williams-2025.jpg?resize=512%2C288&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1162378\" title=\"\"><figcaption><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Chris Williams became a social media manager and assistant editor for Above the Law in June 2021. Prior to joining the staff, he moonlighted as a minor Memelord\u2122 in the Facebook group\u00a0Law School Memes for Edgy T14s . \u00a0He endured Missouri long enough to graduate from Washington University in St. Louis School of Law. He is a former boatbuilder who is learning to swim,\u00a0is interested in critical race theory, philosophy, and humor, and has a love for cycling that occasionally annoys his peers. You can reach him by email at\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:cwilliams@abovethelaw.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">cwilliams@abovethelaw.com <\/a>and by tweet at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WritesForRent\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">@WritesForRent<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2025\/08\/intel-drops-funding-hbcu-legal-pipeline\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Intel Drops Funding HBCU Legal Pipeline<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Above the Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"post-single__featured-image post-single__featured-image--medium alignright\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/abovethelaw.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2025\/08\/GettyImages-2231745326-300x200.jpg?resize=300%2C200&#038;ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" title=\"\"><\/figure>\n<p>More diversity crackdown news. Intel, known mostly for their chip production, awarded North Carolina Central University law school a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nccu.edu\/law\/academics\/techlawcenter\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">$5M grant in 2021 meant to foster diversity in the legal landscape<\/a>. There was probably hope that Intel would renew the grant after it ran its course. That hope all but vanished not long after the U.S. happened to take a a 10% stake in the company. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.bloomberglaw.com\/daily-labor-report\/intel-ends-funding-for-hbcu-legal-pipeline-amid-trump-deal\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bloomberg Law<\/a> has coverage:<\/p>\n<p>NCCU said in a statement to Bloomberg Law that it has received from Intel the \u201cfinal round of funding\u201d needed to run the [Technology Law and Policy Center]\u2026\u201cWhile the formal partnership will not be extended, the Center will continue to foster innovation, drive critical conversations, and prepare students to thrive in the rapidly evolving tech landscape, as the university actively pursues new funding opportunities to sustain and expand its impact,\u201d the school said.<\/p>\n<p>The silver lining is that the end of the Intel funding isn\u2019t the end of the program. It is vital that law schools adopt to the technological changes that will direct their career, be it by incorporating lessons on how to practice using help from LLMs or knowing how to make the most of if and when the AI bubble pops. Best of luck to the TLPC!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.bloomberglaw.com\/daily-labor-report\/intel-ends-funding-for-hbcu-legal-pipeline-amid-trump-deal\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Intel Ends Funding for HBCU Legal Pipeline Amid Trump Deal<\/a> [Bloomberg Law]<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignright is-resized\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"512\" height=\"288\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/abovethelaw.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2025\/06\/Chris-Williams-2025.jpg?resize=512%2C288&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1162378\" title=\"\"><figcaption><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Chris Williams became a social media manager and assistant editor for Above the Law in June 2021. Prior to joining the staff, he moonlighted as a minor Memelord\u2122 in the Facebook group\u00a0Law School Memes for Edgy T14s . \u00a0He endured Missouri long enough to graduate from Washington University in St. Louis School of Law. He is a former boatbuilder who is learning to swim,\u00a0is interested in critical race theory, philosophy, and humor, and has a love for cycling that occasionally annoys his peers. You can reach him by email at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/cdn-cgi\/l\/email-protection#fa998d939696939b9789ba9b98958c9f8e929f969b8dd4999597\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">[email\u00a0protected] <\/a>and by tweet at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WritesForRent\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">@WritesForRent<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More diversity crackdown news. Intel, known mostly for their chip production, awarded North Carolina Central University law school a $5M grant in 2021 meant to foster diversity in the legal landscape. There was probably hope that Intel would renew the grant after it ran its course. That hope all but vanished not long after the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":132190,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-132227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-above_the_law"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/xira.com\/p\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Chris-Williams-2025-51MLJ3.jpg?fit=512%2C288&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132227","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132227"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132227\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/132190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}