FULTON: It's definitely one of our corporate aspirations to draw from talent wherever it may be and to help to develop it when we can. You should anticipate from our programs that [we'll] try to leverage the HBCU community, the programs that we work with and the higher education community generally. There are programs where we try to seed opportunities for small businesses or minority and women-owned businesses to connect with venture capitalists, and also a ratcheting up of our various supplier programs — and I might add our award-winning supplier programs.
BI: Will there be more opportunities for schools to compete for grants?
FULTON: We probably won't do the digital divide bridge grant program next year. It was really a laboratory for us to understand what some of the issues were or what some of the solutions might be. We definitely will continue to work with institutions of higher education, especially the HBCUs broadly and in some unique project with one or two schools playing a leadership role. That's what our intentions are right now.
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