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Leadership & Policy

Charting New Territory: Colleges, Universities Offering New Academic Programs

Charting New Territory: Colleges, Universities Offering New Academic ProgramsBy Hilary HurdM any college students across the country will have new opportunities open to them as several colleges and universities are offering new academic programs this fall in a hustle to remain competitive and respond to the rapidly changing marketplace. Smith College in Northampton, Mass., South […]

September 13, 2000

Faculty & Staff

The New Academic Year

The  New Academic YearThe short answer to any query about trends in higher education for the upcoming academic year: Ask after the presidential election. The upcoming election may well be the wild card that trumps all others in the deck being dealt to college administrators, faculty and students —  not just for 2000-2001, but for the […]

September 13, 2000

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iLab Immerses Students in Multimedia Environment

iLab Immerses Students in Multimedia EnvironmentThe introduction of faster and better information technology tools, such as personal computers and laptops, has been constant since their arrival on campuses over the past two decades. So it’s not unusual that as tools have changed, the facilities, such as the campus computer center, have too.Howard University’s $5 million, […]

August 30, 2000

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Campuses Move Toward Wireless Computing

Campuses Move Toward Wireless ComputingWASHINGTONStudents arriving at Howard University this fall will find one of the latest information technology amenities available to them in their dormitory rooms — the ability to access the campus computer network through a wireless connection.Students, faculty and staff will, with the aid of special modems, have wireless access to Howard’s […]

August 30, 2000

HBCUs

Letters

DeVry happy to move overDear Editor,We read with great enthusiasm your recent article, “Move Over, DeVry,” announcing that historically Black colleges and universities now top the list of the number of computer and information science baccalaureate graduates (see Black Issues, June 22).We at DeVry are proud to have had the distinction of being one of […]

August 30, 2000

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Events

EventsAUGUSTAugust 17-19, 2000National Association of Investors     Corporation Annual Conference and ExpositionPhiladelphiaContact: Wendy LathropePhone: (856) 988-6560Web: www.better-investing.orgAugust 20-24, 2000American Chemical Society220th National MeetingWashingtonPhone: (800) 227-5558Fax: (202) 872-6128E-mail: [email protected]: www.acs.orgSEPTEMBERSeptember 9-10, 2000National Council of Negro WomenNational Black Family Reunion CelebrationWashingtonContact: Shiba Freeman-HaleyPhone: (202) 737-0120Fax: (202) 737-0476E-mail: [email protected]: www.ncnw.comSeptember 11-13Educational Technology and Telecommunications MarketsAnnual Conference“Ed NET 2000: […]

August 16, 2000

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More Women, Minorities Needed to Curb Tech Worker Shortage

More Women, Minorities Needed to Curb Tech Worker ShortageA report released last month by the Commission for the Advancement of Women and Minorities in Science, Engineering and Technology Department warns that the shortage of information technology workers will persist until more minorities, women and people with disabilities are identified and trained by schools, businesses and […]

August 16, 2000

Community Colleges

Community College Education…

Community College Education…he telephone calls, letters and e-mail requests pour in from the four corners of the Earth — from countries where government coffers are flush with oil money, as well as from those that can barely afford to feed their populace. These days, the foreign dignitaries and education ministry bureaucrats that contact American community […]

August 16, 2000

HBCUs

Good News Doesn’t Close Gaps

Good News Doesn’t Close GapsFour gaps define the African American economic experience for me — the income gap, the Digital Divide (or access gap), the credit gap and the education gap.In terms of the income gap, African Americans still earn a fraction of what Whites earn. While that fraction is larger with education, the gap […]

August 2, 2000

Faculty & Staff

TECH briefs

TECH briefsMorris Brown College To Require Laptop Computers This FallATLANTA — Morris Brown College will require its students to buy laptop computers this fall, offering them at discount prices as part of school financial aid.School officials say they believe Morris Brown is the first historically Black college in the nation to make laptops available for […]

August 2, 2000

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Army Announces $600 Million Program to Educate Soldiers

Army Announces $600 Million Program to Educate SoldiersWASHINGTON — Soldiers who choose the Army over school will soon be able to spend evenings in their bunks working for a college or technical degree.A new $600 million Army education program, designed to attract and keep recruits while creating a more wired Army, will provide laptop computers, […]

August 2, 2000

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EVENTS

EVENTSAUGUSTAugust 12-16American Sociological Association95th Annual MeetingWashingtonContact: Jane AftnerPhone: (202) 383-9005, Ext. 302Fax: (202) 638-0882E-mail: [email protected]: www.asanet.orgAugust 16-20National Black Nurses Association28th Annual MeetingWashingtonContact: Linda Millicent-GorhamPhone: (301) 589-2000Fax: (301) 589-3223E-mail: [email protected] 16-20National Association of Black Journalists25th Annual MeetingPhoenixPhone: (301) 445-7100Fax: (301) 445-4707E-mail: [email protected]: www.nabj.orgAugust 17-19National Association of Investors Corp.Annual Conference and ExpositionPhiladelphiaContact: Wendy LathropePhone: (856) 988-6560Web: www.better-investing.orgAugust […]

August 2, 2000