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Faculty & Staff

Higher Education In INDIA

Higher Education In INDIAA brief historical and contemporary overviewIndia has an old tradition of knowledge and learning. In fact, a well-established system of higher education functioned as early as 1000 B.C. In that system, the construction of knowledge, the beliefs on which knowledge is based, basic concepts and the organization of learning are very different […]

February 2, 2000

Community Colleges

Human operator assistance makes a comeback on many campuses

Human operator assistance makes a comeback on many campusesMOBILE, Ala. — You hear it when you call the electric company. Or the airline reservation desk. Or the bank. “For the business office, press one. For billing, press two. For customer service, press three. To speak to an operator, press zero.”Automated phone answering systems are as […]

January 19, 2000

Life, Liberty and Technology

Life, Liberty and TechnologyI was browsing at a bookstore the other day when a young brother, an engineering graduate of an historically Black college, walked up behind me with a group of his friends, talking loudly about a book he was looking for. “I’ve got to learn this CAD thing, man,” he said to one […]

January 19, 2000

E-Dictionary Has Modest Beginning

E-Dictionary Has Modest BeginningPHILADELPHIA — A couple of technology gurus are looking for some “eyeball hang time.” Um. What? In other words, they want you to spend a lot of time looking at their company’s Web site.“Eyeball hang time” is one of dozens of terms listed in a new dictionary of e-lingo developed by Tom […]

November 24, 1999

New Networking

New NetworkingLast month, the National Science Foundation announced that it would spend $5.9 million over four years to assist minority-serving higher education institutions in bringing the latest computer networking technology to their campuses and establishing the management and staffing skills necessary to create and sustain these technologies.Known as the NSF Advanced Networking Project with Minority-Serving […]

November 24, 1999

Faculty & Staff

Creating a Competitive Edge

Creating a Competitive EdgeThe “competitive edge” is more than imperative in today’s recruitment climate for full-time, part-time, internship, and co-op positions. Specifically, students of color have to understand that a 3.0 GPA and above, academic honors, and letters of recommendation are not what create the total “competitive edge” when the competition is NOT other people […]

November 10, 1999

Tech Briefs

Making an Investment to Close the Digital Divide PROVIDENCE, R.I. — A lot of attention is being given, lately, to the digital divide between the information technology haves and have–nots. In an attempt to bridge that chasm, Brown University and MCI WorldCom, with the encouragement of the Rainbow/PUSH Coalition, have announced a new program that […]

October 27, 1999

Harvard Seeks to Leverage its Brand Name

Harvard Seeks to Leverage its Brand NameCAMBRIDGE, Mass. — Officials at Harvard University, one of the world’s most recognized learning institutions, are considering moves to capitalize on its name and reputation in cyberspace — a move that will be closely watched by other universities.Harvard is famous for tapping the academic elite, both at a professorial […]

October 13, 1999

High-Tech Admissions

High-Tech AdmissionsPredictive Modeling Software is Reshaping the Way Schools Find and Communicate With Prospective StudentsWhen Tuskegee University officials set a goal of growing enrollment from the current 3,000 students to 5,000 by the year 2006, they knew it would require an extraordinary approach. Especially given the fierce national competition for college-bound African American high school […]

October 13, 1999

Faculty & Staff

Report Finds Majority of Faculty Technologically Stressed

Report Finds Majority of Faculty Technologically StressedComputer anxiety is surpassing traditional faculty troubles, according to a new national survey of facultyWASHINGTON — As college students research papers on the Internet and manipulate numbers on spreadsheets, their professors are feeling a little less in tune with the newest computer trends.Two out of three professors say they […]

September 29, 1999

The Higher Education Technology Revolution

The Higher Education Technology RevolutionNowhere in higher education has there been as much change as in the use of information technology. Not only have information technology advances provided institutions useful tools like personal computers and campus computer networks, but changes spurred by information technology (IT) advances are leading to a transformation of higher education.“[Information technology] […]

August 18, 1999

UNCF Examines Digital Divide On Campus

UNCF Examines Digital Divide On Campusby Ronald RoachNearly a month before the federal government’s July release of Falling Through the Net: Defining the Digital Divide — a report that details the disparities of computer ownership and Internet usage among Americans along racial, ethnic, and income lines (see Net Report Stirs Concern, next page) — The […]

August 4, 1999

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