UC Berkeley’s School of Education was awarded $500,000 from the 2026 UC-HBCU Initiative grant to support a seven-week summer research experience for undergraduate students from Morehouse College and Talladega College. The program will serve 18 fellows over the course of three years. The grant will be run through a partnership between HBCUs and campus’s Center for Research on Expanding Educational Opportunity, or CREEO, and it will be led by campus professors Travis Bristol and Tolani Britton. According to Melika Jalili, the senior programs and operations manager at CREEO, the CREEO-HBCU program has been “intentionally designed” to strengthen students’ pathways to
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