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Calling Upon HBCUs to Grow Their Own IT Professionals

Calling Upon HBCUs to Grow Their Own IT Professionals The morning that I saw my 3-year-old grandson, Darrion, walk sleepily down the steps, pull the stool from under the kitchen work desk, climb up and try to open the laptop computer sitting on the desk, I realized (as I ran to catch the falling laptop) […]

Dear BI Career Consultants:

Dear BI Career Consultants:How can we measure the true impact of technology on learning and student success?Dr. Samuel M. Hampton Program manager, Executive Leadership Foundation, Technology Transfer ProjectWashingtonWhile the issues in improving technology in higher education are complex, I am most interested in the successful improvement of faculty and instructors’ technology skills. This is critical […]

Demonstrating Student Success

Silicon Valley Under Fire for Weak Minority Recruitment Efforts

Silicon Valley Under Fire for Weak Minority Recruitment EffortsWhen Jeffrey Forbes, a native of New Jersey, chose to attend Stanford University and later the University of California-Berkeley in computer science, he believed their close proximity to Silicon Valley would help enhance his educational experience. “There’s great technology being developed by the companies out there,” says Forbes, […]

AOL Time Warner Playing a Part in Bridging the Technology Gap

AOL Time Warner Playing a Part in Bridging the Technology Gap By Ronald RoachDULLES, Va.hen it comes to digital divide issues, B. Keith Fulton is one of the most recognized authorities in the United States. Fulton first came to prominence as director of technology programs and policy at the National Urban League in the early […]

Historically Black Colleges Strive to Bring Campus Communities Up to Technological Speed

Historically Black Colleges Strive to Bring Campus Communities Up to Technological Speed But are they catching up?By Kendra HamiltonAdministrators at Morris Brown College were not prepared for the response they received when they made two announcements last year. First, the campus was going wireless and, second, every student and faculty member would be required to […]

Community Colleges

Enrollment Up, Retention Rates Down for Minorities in Connecticut Colleges

Enrollment Up, Retention Rates Down for Minorities in Connecticut CollegesHARTFORD, Conn.Connecticut’s colleges are enrolling Black and Hispanic students at record rates, but fail to keep many of them in the classroom, say state education officials. Minority students also are concentrated at lower-level programs such as two-year colleges, the Department of Higher Education said in an […]

Letter from Alliance for Equity in Higher Education

Letter from Alliance for Equity in Higher EducationThe Honorable John BoehnerChairman, Committee on Education and the WorkforceThe Honorable George MillerRanking Member, Committee on Education and the WorkforceU.S. House of Representatives2181 Rayburn HOBWashington, DC 20515Dear Representatives Boehner and Miller:The Alliance for Equity in Higher Education was founded in 1999 to serve as a consensus-building mechanism and […]

Congressional Black Caucus Members to Boycott Education Hearings

Congressional Black Caucus Members to Boycott Education Hearings CBC protesting unfair treatment of Black, Hispanic-serving institutions Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) members plan to boycott many congressional education hearings this year as part of a continuing protest against what they view as unfair Republican treatment of Black and Hispanic-serving colleges.The 21 Democratic members of the House […]

Leadership & Policy

Making Information Technology a Compelling Read

Making Information Technology a Compelling ReadOne of the biggest challenges of writing about information technology is making the subject matter compelling for lay audiences. Having written for technical and business publications in the past, I have grown accustomed to using jargon and assuming my readers are well grounded in information technology. For readers uninterested in […]

A Mission Critical Task: Training African Americans for Institutional Advancement Leadership

A Mission Critical Task: Training African Americans for Institutional Advancement Leadership One day while resting after my exercise workout, I noticed youngsters around the ages of 5 to 7 carrying tennis rackets as big as their little bodies. Accompanying these children were their parents who appeared to be devoted to their children’s achievements related to the […]

State Education Computer Networks Gain Access to Internet2

State Education Computer Networks Gain Access to Internet2 WASHINGTONOfficials with Abilene, a national Internet2 network, have announced that state education computer networks in Michigan, Missouri, Oregon, Virginia and Washington will have Internet2 connectivity. Internet2, a research university-backed upgraded version of the current Internet, largely facilitates educational use with high-performance, high-bandwidth computer networks.The newly announced partnerships […]

Leadership & Policy

Will Historic Inequities Ever Be Remedied?

Will Historic Inequities Ever Be Remedied?Before leaving office, Democrats and the Office of Civil Rights settled all but one desegregation case.Will Black colleges flounder in the postelection dust? By LYDIA LUMPicture this: A public school that was king of Black college football for many years, and also sports a marching band historically renowned. It draws nearly […]

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