Amesite
and NAFEO Announce Major Collaboration to Provide Professional
Learning Support to Historically Black Colleges and
Universities
DETROIT, Aug. 29, 2022
-- InvestorsHub NewsWire -- Amesite Inc., (NASDAQ: AMST), a leading artificial intelligence
software company offering a cloud-based learning platform for
business and education markets, announces it has partnered with the
National Association for Equal Opportunity in Higher Education
(NAFEO) to deliver a complete Enterprise Learning Community
Environment® (LCESM)
for Historically Black Colleges and Universities
(HBCUs).
NAFEO's
LCESM will
deliver everything from first outreach in learner enrollment to
certificates of completion – in one streamlined system –
allowing HBCUs to expand partnerships with business, academic, and
community organizations to identify and address professional skills
gaps, as well as support upskilling needs of expanding alumni
markets. The best-in-class, AI-powered LCESM will
be offered to NAFEO's membership for their use in scaling learning
programs with efficiency and effectiveness.
Lezli
Baskerville, Esq., CEO of NAFEO, stated, "For
53 years, NAFEO has championed the interests of HBCUs in the
legislative, executive, and judicial branches of government, before
international organizations, and with heads of state. With this
collaboration, NAFEO will leverage its deep ties in government,
academia, and philanthropy, to scale offerings by HBCUs for
professional learners who so critically need them. Amesite is
uniquely capable of supporting this mission because of their
technology, services, and track record. Their
LCESM can
support NAFEO and its partner HBCUs in delivering their own branded
and sustainable programs to reach millions of learners around the
globe."
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NAFEO
is "the voice for blacks in higher education," as the nation's only
membership and advocacy association for the 106 public, private and
land-grant, 2-and 4-year, graduate, and professional Historically
Black Colleges and Universities and 80 Predominantly Black
Institutions.
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NAFEO
members enroll more than 700,000 students, they have 72,000
faculty, and 7 million alumni worldwide.
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HBCUs
have a $15 billion short-term economic impact.
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HBCUs
graduate 50% of African American public school education
professionals and in excess of 40% of African Americans who earn
advanced degrees in the sciences, technology, engineering, and
mathematics (STEM); 60% of African American health professionals;
52% of African Americans in agriculture and sustainability
disciplines, and 44% of African Americans with Communications
Technology degrees.
Amesite Founder
& CEO Dr. Ann Marie Sastry commented, "This collaboration will rely on
the technology and service capability of our V5
platform to deliver professional learning
for NAFEO's partners at scale, remaining true to these storied
universities' missions, visions, and values and honoring their
brands. Serving as NAFEO's technology partner means that together,
we will be able to deliver affordable learning programs at scale
that are effective and sustainable for NAFEO and its HBCU member
universities."
About Amesite
Inc.
Amesite delivers its
scalable, customizable, white-labeled online learning platform to
universities, businesses, museums, and government agencies,
enabling them to deliver outstanding digital learning. Amesite
provides a single system that combines eCommerce, instruction,
engagement, analytics, and administration using best-in-class
infrastructure to serve multi-billion-dollar online learning
markets. For more information, visit
www.amesite.io.
About
NAFEO
The National
Association for Equal Opportunity in Higher Education (NAFEO) is
the nation's only national membership association of all of the
nation's Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) and
Predominantly Black Institutions (PBIs). Founded in 1969, by the
presidents and chancellors of HBCUs and other equal educational
opportunity institutions, NAFEO is a one of a kind membership
association representing the presidents and chancellors of the
public, private, independent, and land-grant, two-year, four-year,
graduate and professional, HBCUs and PBIs. NAFEO is a voluntary,
independent 501 (c ) (3) association. For more information,
visit
www.nafeonation.org.
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of Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended,
and Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended)
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learning platform, the Company's business plans, any future
commercialization of the Company's online learning solutions,
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