Google first teamed up with Howard University (HU) in the summer of 2017 to launch Howard West, an exchange program offering the HBCU’s computer science students the opportunity to study and learn at the tech giant’s Mountain View campus for a semester.

Since then, several alumni and faculty have expressed that they are not happy with the outcome of the program.

Howard West is one of the many programs Google launched after sharing its diversity numbers for the first time in 2014, which showed that only 2.4% of the company’s U.S. workforce were Black employees. That stat has since improved to reach just 3.7%, according to its 2020 diversity report. Google has often blamed the pipeline problem and access to Black tech professionals for its diversity disparities.

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