Altria Provides $1 Million Grant to the Thurgood Marshall College Fund to Support its STEM Teacher Quality and Retention Program
New York, NY (July 12, 2012) – Altria Group and the Thurgood Marshall College Fund (TMCF) inaugurated a partnership to launch two new sites for the TMCF’s Teacher Quality and Retention Program (TQRP), which recruits future middle school teachers to specialize in the important academic areas of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM). A $1-million grant from Altria enabled TMCF to establish summer teaching institutes at Virginia State University in Petersburg, Va., and Tennessee State University in Nashville, Tenn. The institutes feature master teachers working with the new