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Leadership & Policy

Howard to Receive $70 Million Technology Gift

Howard to Receive $70 Million Technology Gift WASHINGTON The Partners for the Advancement of Collaborative Engineering Education (PACE) have selected Howard University to join its academic partnership and receive an in-kind contribution of software and other technology valued at $70.6 million. The in-kind contribution, the largest in the university’s history, includes computer-based product management, engineering, […]

October 20, 2004

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Philadelphia Grows Wireless Web Access Area

Philadelphia Grows Wireless Web Access AreaPHILADELPHIAPhiladelphia, reportedly the first major U.S. city to launch a citywide wireless Internet project, expanded free outdoor wireless Internet access last month as part of a multimillion-dollar plan to connect the entire city by early 2006. Some smaller cities already have wireless networks for their residents, but Philadelphia is the […]

October 6, 2004

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Events

OCTOBER                                    Oct. 13-16Robotic Institute’s 25th Anniversary Celebration“Robots and Thought”Carnegie Mellon UniversityPittsburghWeb: www.ri.cmu.eduOct. 14-16American Association of University Professors (AAUP)Fifth Annual Conference on Governance“Degrees of Quality”The Marriott DowntownMemphis, Tenn.Web: www.aaup.orgOct. 27-31National Association for Multicultural Education (NAME)2004 Conference Commemorating the 50th Anniversary of Brown v. Board of EducationHyatt Regency Crown CenterKansas City, Mo. E-mail: [email protected]: www.nameorg.orgNOVEMBER Nov. 1-5Association […]

September 22, 2004

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Jamaica to Provide Internet Access in Its Poor Communities

Jamaica to Provide Internet Access in Its Poor CommunitiesKINGSTON, JAMAICAJamaica’s Commerce and Technology Minister Phillip Paulwell announced in late August a plan to provide free Internet access in poor communities across the island, according to news reports. The “e-Jamaica” initiative will establish 60 Internet centers across the country by 2010, mostly in post offices, according […]

September 22, 2004

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Survey Unveils High-Tech Ownership

Survey Unveils High-Tech Ownership Profile of American College Students Ninety percent of students own computersNEW YORK A national market survey, the 360 Youth College Explorer Study, reveals that 90 percent of American college students own their own computers and 65 percent have access to broadband Internet connections. The recently released survey findings unveiled the spending […]

September 22, 2004

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Prevent Spam Filters from Blocking Legitimate E-mail

Prevent Spam Filters from Blocking Legitimate E-mailThere’s no question about it: Spam is a scourge. This ever-increasing torrent of unsolicited commercial mass e-mail saps productivity and, for some, threatens the very viability of e-mail.The battle against spam, unfortunately, is creating problems of its own, with people sometimes unable to send legitimate e-mail and other times […]

September 22, 2004

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USC Launches New Center for Communication Technology

USC Launches New Center for Communication TechnologyLOS ANGELESThe University of Southern California’s Annenberg School for Communication has announced that Dr. Jeffrey Cole and his staff at the Center for Communication Policy, formerly based at UCLA, will lead the newly established Center for the Digital Future, a policy and research center devoted to the study of […]

September 8, 2004

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Managing the Risks and Rewards of Instant Messaging

Managing the Risks and Rewards of Instant MessagingYou probably think instant messaging (IM) as something teenagers do to chat up friends online, whether across the street or across the world. But IM has some buttoned-down business benefits, as well as some risks you may not be aware of.Unlike e-mail, in which you fire off messages […]

August 11, 2004

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Utah State Collaborating With MIT on Courseware

Utah State Collaborating With MIT on CoursewareLOGAN, Utah Researchers affiliated with the Open Sustainable Learning Opportunity (OSLO) Group at Utah State University have launched the Open Learning Support (OLS) initiative, a program that complements the free Web-based educational materials from MIT’s OpenCourseWare (OCW) project. The OLS initiative is set up to work with seven MIT […]

August 11, 2004

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Higher Education Middleware Security Group Formed

Higher Education Middleware Security Group FormedWASHINGTON A  coalition of higher education associations and state university systems have formed a partnership to discover how middleware software tools might help college and universities strengthen identity and access management.  Announced in late June, the partnership, entitled Extending the Reach (ETR), includes the EDUCAUSE, the Internet2 consortium, the Southeastern […]

August 11, 2004

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Savannah State Named Digital Content Leader by WebCT

Savannah State Named Digital Content Leader by WebCTSAVANNAH, Ga. For the second consecutive year, historically Black Savannah State University has earned the distinction of Digital Content Leader by WebCT, a higher education software vendor and provider of integrated e-learning systems.   Launched in 2003, the Digital Content Leader selection by WebCT is based on a school […]

August 11, 2004

Faculty & Staff

HBCU Faculty Encouraged to Integrate GIS in Research, Curriculum

HBCU Faculty Encouraged to Integrate GIS in Research, Curriculum  WASHINGTONDespite being scaled down in comparison to previous workshops, the 21st Annual HBCU Summer Faculty Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Workshop in Washington, D.C., impressed upon faculty members and other participants the need to integrate GIS in research and the curriculum. GIS is defined as “computer mapping […]

August 11, 2004