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Network, not iPhone, to blame for wireless glitches at Duke

RALEIGH N.C. A problem with Duke University’s wireless network caused outages at the school, officials said Friday, exonerating the initial suspect, Apple Inc.’s new iPhone.

July 22, 2007

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Indiana U. Hopes For Jumpstart in Technology Startups

BLOOMINGTON Ind. Indiana University hopes a newly created job at the school will help technology research make the jump from the laboratory to the business world.

July 18, 2007

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Parable of the Talents – Review

Parable of the Talents by Octavia Butler, Group West, $24.95, 400 pages.

July 15, 2007

Students

Cyber Diversity – online instruction

It’s not unusual that all 15 students in one of Dr. Maureen Eke’s African American literature course sections at Central Michigan University are White. What’s striking, however, is that Black students and their Black professor from a campus located hundreds of miles away are beamed onto a large television screen to join Dr. Eke and her students in class discussions and lectures.

July 14, 2007

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The Revolution Is Being Televised — on the Internet

The day the United States Supreme Court handed down a decision in Brown v. Board of Education — May 17, 1954 — has been called “the most important [day] of the 20th Century.”

July 14, 2007

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Planning for Technology

New guide offers a model for information technology planning that is tailored to the needs of HBCUs

July 14, 2007

HBCUs

Filling technology’s massive talent gap

Technology partnership brings opportunities to students at Virginia HBCUs

July 14, 2007

HBCUs

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ORLANDO, Fla. At the final national conference held here last month under the venerable name of Educom, David A. Staudt, along with hundreds of college and university information technology professionals, began charting a course for higher education’s new information technology organization, Educause.

July 14, 2007

Faculty & Staff

Black Faculty Congress Advances Research Agenda

WASHINGTON The National Congress of Black Faculty met here last month for their twelfth annual conference to discuss a host of topics that ranged from affirmative action’s impact on Black access to higher education, to the role of Black scholars in shaping public policy, to the importance of computer literacy.

July 14, 2007

Students

Oracle’s Strategic Investment In Montgomery College

Where does one of the world’s largest computer software companies go when it wants to partner with a college that has a highly diverse student body in a region that is experiencing severe high-tech labor shortages?

July 14, 2007

Faculty & Staff

Faculty focus on technology

If you’re looking for new and exciting ways to adapt information technology to the classroom or to your research, an upcoming annual symposium hosted by the HBCU Faculty Development Network may have the answers you seek.

July 14, 2007

Students

Home-grown scientists; national labs scramble to produce more U.S.-born scientists of color

National labs scramble to produce more U.S.-born scientist of color

July 14, 2007