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Hispanic Association Teams Up With Gateway Computers

Hispanic Association Teams Up With Gateway ComputersBy Ronald Roach SAN ANTONIO The Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities (HACU) recently teamed up with computer manufacturer Gateway Inc. to provide a discounted PC and rebate program to HACU’s 300 member institutions. HACU member institutions enroll more than 1 million of the 1.5 million Hispanics in higher […]

February 12, 2003

Study Analyzes Efforts To Bring Technology to Distressed Areas

Study Analyzes Efforts To Bring Technology to Distressed AreasBy Ronald Roach STATE COLLEGE, Pa.A Penn State researcher says the lack of community-based programs and resources to equip and sustain underserved populations with significant information technology skills can override the effect of basic efforts to bring information technology to distressed communities. According to Dr. Lynette Kvasny’s […]

January 15, 2003

Cornell, Local School Team Up on Digital Divide

Cornell, Local School Team Up on Digital Divide ITHACA, N.Y.A community outreach group funded in part by Cornell University is spearheading a campaign to help bridge the digital divide in the local community. The Cornell Ithaca Partnership is working to put computers in 57 homes where children would otherwise not have home access. The homes […]

December 18, 2002

Digital Divide Grants Awarded to Nonprofits, Universities

Digital Divide Grants Awarded to Nonprofits, UniversitiesWASHINGTONIn late September, the U.S. Department of Commerce’s National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) announced the award of $12.4 million in Technology Opportunities Program (TOP) grants to 25 nonprofit organizations, including state and local governments and universities, in 19 states and the District of Columbia. Universities receiving TOP awards […]

October 23, 2002

Huston-Tillotson College Opens Dell Computer Laboratory

Huston-Tillotson College Opens Dell Computer LaboratoryAUSTIN, TexasLast month, Huston-Tillotson College officials unveiled its corporate-sponsored Dell Computer Laboratory, which is housed in the Dickey-Lawless building.The unveiling follows last year’s announcement by Dell Computer Corp. officials of its $300,000 donation to Huston-Tillotson, the company’s largest to a historically Black college or university. The donation came with an […]

October 9, 2002

NAFEO, 100 Black Men Team Up in Scholarship Effort

NAFEO, 100 Black Men Team Up in Scholarship Effort WASHINGTONThe National Association for Equal Opportunity in Higher Education (NAFEO) and the 100 Black Men of America Inc. have entered into an historic agreement to send promising and talented students to historically and predominantly Black colleges and universities.The agreement, which was signed during the 100 Black […]

October 9, 2002

Leadership & Policy

Instructional Technology Training Center Launched

Instructional Technology Training Center LaunchedLOS ALTOS HILLS, Calif.A regional instructional technology training center for teachers was dedicated earlier this month on the campus of Foothill College in Los Altos Hills, Calif. With the goal of bridging the digital divide, officials at Foothill College opened the Krause Center for Innovation (KCI) at a ribbon-cutting ceremony. Made […]

September 25, 2002

NAFEO, University System of Maryland Team Up on Laptops

NAFEO, University System of Maryland Team Up on LaptopsCOLLEGE PARK, Md.The National Association for Equal Opportunity in Higher Education (NAFEO) and the University System of Maryland (USM) have announced a $1.2 million USM “Digital Divide Initiative” (DDI) grant to Coppin State College, University of Maryland Eastern Shore and Bowie State University. The schools are three […]

September 11, 2002

Consumer Groups Urge Federal Policy on Digital Access

Consumer Groups Urge Federal Policy on Digital AccessWASHINGTONAlthough nearly two-thirds of all Americans now have access to the Internet, less affluent households run the risk of being shut out of the digital economy because they are not as likely to be online, according to a May report sponsored by major U.S. consumer groups. As a […]

June 19, 2002

Campaigning for Access

Campaigning for AccessActivists and lawmakers launch effort to save federal initiatives on digital technology With limited private and campus funds, officials at North Carolina Central University in Durham, N.C., tried to establish an Internet and computer-based tutoring system in some of Durham’s poorest public schools. Limited funding enabled the purchase of five computers, each of […]

June 5, 2002

Budget, Evaluations Pose Challenges for TRIO

Budget, Evaluations Pose Challenges for TRIOBush budget labels Upward Bound program as ‘ineffective’National TRIO advocates came before a House of Representatives panel recently to seek more funding for 2003 and to clarify what it terms as misleading information about one of their core activities — the Upward Bound program.In its fiscal 2003 budget request, the […]

June 5, 2002

Conference on Digital Inclusion Targets MSIs

Conference on Digital Inclusion Targets MSIs CELEBRATION, Fla.The Association of Computer and Information Science and Engineering Departments at Minority Institutions (ADMI), in association with Stetson University’s Institute for the Study of Digital Inclusion, will explore collaborations between major research institutions, industry and minority institutions at its annual conference and symposium devoted to computing issues relevant […]

May 22, 2002

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