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In 2017, [[Google Inc.]] announced it established a pilot residency program named "Howard University West" on its campus in [[Mountain View, California]], to help increase [[Underrepresented group|underrepresented minorities]] in the tech industry. In 2018, the program expanded from a three-month summer program to a full academic year program and the name changed to "Tech Exchange" to be inclusive of 15 other [[minority-serving institution]]s added to the program such as [[Florida A&M]], [[Prairie View A&M]], and [[Fisk University|Fisk]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://newsroom.howard.edu/newsroom/static/8771/howard-university-and-google-expand-successful-computer-science-residency|title=Howard University and Google Expand Successful Computer Science Residency To Include Additional HBCUs|date=September 19, 2018|website=Howard Newsroom|language=en|access-date=September 3, 2019|archive-date=June 28, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210628045920/https://newsroom.howard.edu/newsroom/static/8771/howard-university-and-google-expand-successful-computer-science-residency|url-status=dead}}</ref> Howard students in the program learn from senior Google engineers, practice the latest coding techniques, and experience tech culture in Mountain View for course credits towards their degrees.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/news/2017/03/23/howard-university-google/99518020/|title=Google opens Howard University West to train black coders|website=[[USA Today]]|access-date=December 31, 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://newsroom.howard.edu/newsroom/article/7931/howard-university-and-google-expand-howard-west-computer-science-residency|title=Newsroom|access-date=February 4, 2018|archive-date=June 29, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210629123246/https://newsroom.howard.edu/newsroom/article/7931/howard-university-and-google-expand-howard-west-computer-science-residency|url-status=dead}}</ref>