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Virginia Universities Team Up on Nation’s Cyber Security

Virginia Universities Team Up on Nation’s Cyber SecurityFocus on public policy and law gives research effort unique focusARLINGTON, Va.In the wake of the Sept. 11 terrorist attack on the United States, federal policy-makers have taken measures to strengthen computer network security systems guarding the nation’s vital database and infrastructure operations. Last month, federal officials announced […]

June 19, 2002

Science, Mathematics, Engineering and Technology: A Clarion Call

Science, Mathematics, Engineering and Technology: A Clarion CallJust as the terrorist attacks on American soil have served as a clarion call to galvanize our nation’s resolve to eradicate terrorism on a global basis, we need a similar clarion call in the eradication of educational barriers in order to meet this nation’s work-force needs, particularly in […]

June 19, 2002

Pennsylvania Awards Technology Grants to Colleges

Pennsylvania Awards Technology Grants to CollegesHARRISBURG, Pa.Pennsylvania’s education secretary Charles B. Zogby has announced $4.1 million in grants for 23 Pennsylvania colleges and universities to improve campus information technology for students. Historically Black Lincoln University, located outside of Philadelphia, was among the schools receiving an Improving Technology at Colleges and Universities (ITCU) grant from the […]

June 5, 2002

UNCF Secures ExxonMobil Award in Technology Campaign

UNCF Secures ExxonMobil Award in Technology Campaign DALLASThe United Negro College Fund (UNCF) has netted yet another big-dollar award in its highly successful UNCF Technology Enhancement Capital Campaign. ExxonMobil Foundation announced recently that it awarded UNCF a grant of $500,000. The campaign is strengthening the information technology capabilities of the 39 private historically Black college […]

June 5, 2002

Campaigning for Access

Campaigning for AccessActivists and lawmakers launch effort to save federal initiatives on digital technology With limited private and campus funds, officials at North Carolina Central University in Durham, N.C., tried to establish an Internet and computer-based tutoring system in some of Durham’s poorest public schools. Limited funding enabled the purchase of five computers, each of […]

June 5, 2002

Microsoft Chairman Addresses Rainbow Coalition Conference on Technology Diversity

Microsoft Chairman Addresses Rainbow Coalition Conference on Technology Diversity

May 22, 2002

Breaking the Information Logjam

Breaking the Information LogjamToday, in the Information Age, we typically think of ourselves as being uniquely inundated with information. But nearly two millennia ago, the Roman Stoic philosopher Seneca wrote, “What is the use of having countless books and libraries, whose titles their owners can scarcely read through in a whole lifetime? The learner is, […]

May 8, 2002

Information Technology Group To Address Issues of Equity

Information Technology Group To Address Issues of EquityAUSTIN, TexasThe Community Technology Centers’ Network (CTCNET) is convening a seminar titled “Access and Beyond: Advancing a Community Technology Agenda,” which is expected to draw more than 700 professionals from CTCs, government agencies, nonprofit associations, universities and corporations. CTCNet is a national, nonprofit membership organization of more than […]

May 8, 2002

The Influence of Active Online Users

The Influence of Active Online UsersWe active online users like to think of ourselves as savvy, hip and influential. We have access to the latest information technology, and more importantly, know how to use it to its full potential. Sure, when we take things to an extreme, we become nerds, isolated from other spheres of […]

April 24, 2002

New Legislation May Aid Minority-Serving Institutions

New Legislation May Aid Minority-Serving InstitutionsNew federal legislation to help implement technology at minority-serving institutions may have a major positive effect for Black colleges and Hispanic-serving colleges and universities, witnesses told a Senate panel.In a congressional hearing originally scheduled for last fall but delayed following the attacks of Sept. 11, HBCU and HSI leaders said […]

April 24, 2002

CUMREC Conference Set For Minnesota

CUMREC Conference Set For MinnesotaBOULDER, Colo.CUMREC, an affiliate organization of Educause that focuses on higher education administrative technology issues, will be convening its 2002 annual conference in Minneapolis, May 12-15. The CUMREC Annual Conference, founded in 1956, is the longest running conference devoted to promoting the understanding and use of information technology in higher education. […]

April 10, 2002

UNCF Technology Campaign Raises $90 Million

UNCF Technology Campaign Raises $90 MillionFAIRFAX, Va.The campaign by the United Negro College Fund (UNCF) to raise funds, equipment and services to help its member schools bridge the “digital divide” has recently surpassed the $90 million mark, according to UNCF officials. The campaign, launched just over a year ago with a goal of $80 million, […]

April 10, 2002

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