Tag: Technology: Page 73

Community Colleges

Gates Foundation Seeks College Success Technology

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is offering up to $20 million in grants to attract new technology aimed at helping students get a college degree.

October 11, 2010

Students

National Academies Committee Recommends Measures To Boost Minority STEM Participation

Citing the relatively low levels of minority representation in science and engineering, leaders of a group working to increase diversity in those fields released a report Thursday that shows the extent of the problem and makes recommendations on how to solve it.

September 30, 2010

African-American

National Science Board Report Calls for Equity, Excellence and Opportunity in STEM

The United States’ ability to be not just a global leader but even a competitive participant in technology will depend largely on a massive infusion of women and underrepresented racial and ethnic minorities in the fields of science, technology, engineering and math, or STEM.

September 15, 2010

Home

Book Reviews: U.S. Higher Education Seeks Its Way in Global Era

Authors of three recently published books examine the trends that have intensified higher education competition among countries in the world’s marketplace.

August 19, 2010

African-American

Maryland HBCU Developing Solar Energy Project

There’s no question that higher education institutions during this recession have implemented cost-cutting measures to reduce their operating expenses. Among those schools have been institutions, such as Coppin State University, that are seeking innovative green technologies to save on energy costs.

July 14, 2010

Home

New Interreligious Theological University To Form in Massachusetts

Two theological schools, including the nation’s oldest Christian graduate seminary, announced Tuesday that they’re uniting to form a university to educate people of all religions.

June 23, 2010

Students

Making it Mandatory

With high-profile digital devices such as the Apple iPad hitting the consumer market, higher education institutions consider the latest wave of mobile computing gadgets for adoption as campuswide tools.

March 30, 2010

African-American

Tech Savvy HBCUs Keeping Pace With Innovation, Others Lag

Closing the so-called digital divide is becoming less of a possibility for many HBCUs.

March 25, 2010

Students

Meeting Brings Ohio University, HBCU Officials Together for Collaboration

Bridging the faculty-student digital technology divide was the focus of a conference held last week at Spelman College, launching the first meeting for a nine-member alliance among eight historically Black institutions and Ohio University.

March 23, 2010

Students

LAW : Challenging Tradition

As a young Indian-American growing up in mostly White southern New Jersey, Madhavi Sunder’s most vital links to her cultural heritage included her uncles, aunts and cousins who emigrated from India to the United States.

January 6, 2010

Faculty & Staff

COMPUTER SCIENCE: Computing For Cures

When Dr. Yaohang Li’s parents steered him as a teenager toward a computing career, it didn’t douse any of his passion for laboratory sciences.

January 6, 2010

Students

LASTWORD : DIVERSITY IN SUPPORTING OUR NATION

Embracing, building and nurturing a diverse work force are business imperatives in today’s federal government arena.

December 23, 2009