Medgar Evers College Educational Foundation is awarded a $25,000 Spectrum Digital Education grant.

The grant will be used towards the Percy Ellis Sutton Search for Education, Elevation and Knowledge, also known as SEEK, which provides laptops and tutoring for incoming freshmen.

SEEK was founded in 1965 and is designed to help students from low income households, disadvantaged neighborhoods or schools that did not prepare them properly for college.

It provides up to five years of academic and financial assistance. Students also get free counseling and mentorship.

“The grant from Spectrum is enabling our students to be a lot more digitally literate and Miss Mason has explained that there is going to be a lot of wonderful things they’re going to do this summer with some of the funding to really boost STEM,” Dr. Patricia Ramsey, president of Medgar Evers College, said.

“SEEK family are my family. Without the SEEK, I wouldn’t be able to buy my textbook - I wouldn’t be able to financially support myself. So this program is a lot to me,” Chizoba Ihejirika, student at the college, said

Charter is the parent company of Spectrum Networks and NY1.