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30 Mar Andreessens give $275,000, seek to aid military veterans in tech

Silicon Valley venture capitalist Marc Andreessen and his wife, philanthropist and educator Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen, are giving $275,000 to four non-profits working on the front lines for the nation's military veterans, with the aim of getting more service men and women into tech jobs.

29 Mar Diversity’s more than gender

Despite the IT industry's push for greater diversity and inclusion, there's still a long way to go. Though there's been a major effort, industry-wide, to increase the numbers of women working in the industry, there's still a dearth of black, Latino/Hispanic and native American tech talent. In 2014, USA Today reported that black and Hispanic tech talent made up 4.5 percent of computer engineering and computer science graduates, based on data from the Computing Research Association's most recent Taulbee survey from 2013-2014, which measures graduation rates, degrees awarded and salary based on data from 170 US and Canadian universities for the previous year. The 2014-2015 Taulbee survey results will be available in May; I'll be eagerly awaiting the results in hopes it'll show even greater gains.