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The Other March Madness: A College ‘Net Competition’

The Other March Madness: A College ‘Net Competition’SAN FRANCISCO — It was the other March Madness competition: a battle for millions of dollars in venture capital as the final four out of dozens of college teams focused on “Nothin’ but the (Inter)Net.”There were no easy layups,  only one slam dunk to make in a scramble […]

April 12, 2000

Faculty & Staff

Rafting Towards New Major’s

Rafting Towards New Major’s“Mom, I’ve decided to major in adventure sports.”   Not words every mother wants to hear. We’re talking mountain biking. Scuba diving. Spelunking. It’s news to test a parent’s open-mindedness. Exotic or highly specialized majors carry the baggage of the unfamiliar — negative assumptions come easy. But parents who fret about a child’s […]

April 12, 2000

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Do Major’s Matter?

Do Major’s Matter?There is, perhaps, no college decision that is more thought-provoking, gut-wrenching and rest-of-your-life oriented — or disoriented — than the choice of a major.“Sometimes, even those who have already decided, when you ask them about their major [and how it will affect their job expectations], the answers don’t correspond with what they want […]

April 12, 2000

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Technology, Learning and the Future of Education

Technology, Learning and the Future of EducationA few weeks ago, a newly minted dot-com millionaire opined in The New York Times that higher education was hardly necessary. Why not put it all on the Internet, he asked — the great books, stirring lectures and rigorous exams? Why not let people teach themselves? Why allow higher […]

April 12, 2000

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Internet Philosophies Reveal New Take on Old Ideas

Internet Philosophies Reveal New Take on Old IdeasThese days, you just might hear someone say, “I am, therefore I surf.” PCs, and the Internet that links them, are becoming so central to our way of life that they have spawned whole new schools of thought.Internet philosophies with imposing names such as cyberlibertarianism, cyberutopianism, technorealism, technohedonism, […]

March 29, 2000

Community Colleges

Washington Briefs

Clinton Joins Waters To Address ‘Digital Divide’WASHINGTON — African Americans and Hispanics are less likely than Whites to get connected to the Internet, and Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif., with help from President Clinton, is doing something about it.With Waters’ help, the White House is requesting $100 million in fiscal 2001 for community technology centers that […]

March 1, 2000

MSIs

Solving This Digital Dilemma

Solving This Digital DilemmaEarly in my academic career, I was tapped on the shoulder, pulled aside and told that I was one of the kids considered bright enough to enter the school’s magnet program. It was junior high. And bored as I had indeed been in some of my math and science classes, enticing as […]

March 1, 2000

Latinx

Crossing The Divide

Crossing The Divide$6 million NSF project seeks to connect minority-serving institutionsWASHINGTON — By the time a fierce winter storm had sheathed this capitol city and its burgeoning suburbs with a foot of snow this past January, some 40 representatives from historically Black institutions, tribal colleges and Hispanic-serving institutions had comfortably settled in a downtown hotel. The […]

March 1, 2000

Students

Media Lab

Media LabHelping Bridge the World Wide DivideCAMBRIDGE, Mass. — Had Randal Pinkett stayed on track to complete a Ph.D. in electrical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, it’s doubtful he would have gotten the time and support to base his graduate studies around “digital divide” issues. It’s also unlikely he would have paired with […]

March 1, 2000

HBCUs

Job Fair Pulls Virginia HBCU Students Into The Technology Mix

Job Fair Pulls Virginia HBCU Students Into The Technology MixRICHMOND, VA — During her years at Virginia State University, Jaunese Harris took note of efforts by the information systems department to improve the resources and course offerings in her major. The school hired new faculty for the department, introduced new courses each year and purchased […]

March 1, 2000

HBCUs

Capitolizing on the Digital Divid

Capitolizing on the Digital DividIt has dynamic colleges and universities, talented minorities and a red hot high-tech environment — not to mention lots of your federal tax dollars. But can the nation’s capital lead the way in bridging the digital divide?WASHINGTON — After an economic recession and U.S. military budget reductions forced layoffs among federal […]

March 1, 2000

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Bridging the Digital Divide

Bridging the Digital Divide“Opportunity for all requires … having access to a computer and knowing how to use it. That means we must close the ‘digital divide’ between those who’ve got the tools and those who don’t.”Thus spoke President Clinton in his final State of the Union address, reiterating his views on the importance of […]

March 1, 2000