Tag: Technology: Page 71

Students

Commentary: Online Education — Enriching Society, Creating Personal Opportunity

Online learning is indeed the great equalizer enabling diverse and distant populations to enrich their knowledge through online degree programs, writes the president of Touro University.

September 6, 2012

Students

Football Classics Bring the HBCU Experience — and Their Marching Bands — to Big-time Arenas

There’s more to HBCU football classics than just the action on the field. They are weekend-long events, much like a school’s homecoming, only on a grander scale.

September 4, 2012

African-American

Chronicling the Life and Career of a Higher Education Giant — Norman Francis

In this unique series, Diverse: Issues In Higher Education honors the life and career of Xavier University of Louisiana President Norman Francis. For more than four decades, Francis has led the private, historically Black, New Orleans-based university to exemplary accomplishment and achievement. Diverse recounts the challenges Francis faced and triumphs that are credited to his leadership. Please read and join the discussions at the end of each story in the series. ENDPARAGRAPH

March 3, 2012

African-American

Declining Numbers of Blacks Seen in Math and Science

From community college through Ph.D. level, the percentage of STEM degrees received by Blacks in 2009 was 7.5 percent, down from 8.1 percent in 2001.

October 24, 2011

Faculty & Staff

CSU-Northridge, UCLA Researchers Try To Harness Brain-Computer Interface Technology for Wheelchairs

The technology has the potential to provide a new degree of freedom to disabled users.

September 20, 2011

Home

Diverse In India: Innovation Academy Provides Cutting-edge Technology Education, Experience

For students, the primary benefit of the Microsoft i-Spark Centre Innovation Academy is having a place where they can get hands-on experience and work on projects that could potentially get recognition and support from Microsoft in their bid to take the products to market.

August 31, 2011

Home

Indian Institute of Technology Branches Excel in Producing India’s Top Engineering Talent

CHENNAI, India – In order to reach the various buildings that comprise the Indian Institute of Technology Madras (ITT), you have to catch one of the big yellow buses that periodically comes to transport students, visitors and others from the security checkpoint at the front gate.

August 19, 2011

Students

Journalism Project Honors Work of Slain Editor Chauncey Bailey

Four years since the death of journalist Chauncey Bailey, the work of the Chauncey Bailey Project arguably serves as reminder of how journalists inform and educate the public.

August 3, 2011

HBCUs

Microsoft’s Imagine Cup Competition Seeks Diversity

Launched in 2003, Microsoft’s Imagine Cup competition boasts a strong international presence, with students from more than 70 countries competing this past year.

July 25, 2011

African-American

Engineering Universal Access for Learning

Bowie State University is pioneering new ground in understanding the cognitive and psychosocial issues involved in adaptive technology.

May 4, 2011

Community Colleges

Growing Mississippi Film Industry Lacks Workforce

Film and TV professionals say there is still a significant shortage of trained professionals to staff the projects attracted by Mississippi’s diverse locations and film incentive program, despite a growing number of higher education opportunities across the state.

April 24, 2011

African-American

Teen Girls Discover Digital Technology as ‘COMPUGIRLS’

Dr. Kimberly Scott, an associate professor in women and gender studies at Arizona State University, the digital divide is not just about “who has access to computers, but what happens during that access.”

March 31, 2011