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Wired for the Cause

Wired for the CauseAs a youngster growing up in Boston, Dr. Bryant York experienced firsthand the educational benefits of the math and science push by the United States in the aftermath of the 1957 launching of the Soviet satellite Sputnik. One of the few Black junior high and high school students to be enrolled in […]

February 27, 2002

Strategic Thinker

Strategic ThinkerAlthough Hampton University’s Debra S. White did not plan a career in higher education information technology administration, her knack for project management and incisive strategic thinking has made for impressive results at the private historically Black university in Hampton, Va. White became the assistant provost for technology at Hampton in January 1999, and in […]

February 27, 2002

Researching Inclusion

Researching InclusionEven as a child, Dr. Valerie Taylor was drawn to math and science. “Math is an objective subject. It doesn’t change from year to year like English. One year an English teacher would say my writing was too flowery, another year it was not expressive enough. But each year 2 plus 2 was 4,” […]

February 27, 2002

Community Colleges

Community College Advocate

Community College AdvocateAs a community college graduate, Dr. Edward J. Leach knows firsthand the critical role community colleges play in providing minority students opportunities for educational advancement. Since 1999, the New York native has served as an advocate for ensuring that the nation’s community colleges expose minorities to digital technology. Given that more than 40 […]

February 27, 2002

Urban Innovation

Urban InnovationLofty ideas float abundantly within the halls of academe, but Dr. Louis Gomez takes his lofty ideas directly into Chicago urban schools. Gomez, an associate professor of computer science at Northwestern University, is co-director of the Center for Learning Technologies in Urban Schools (LeTUS). The center, sponsored by the National Science Foundation, is a […]

February 27, 2002

Advocating Technological Empowerment

Advocating Technological EmpowermentIf it takes impressive talent to launch a research career in physics, imagine what it takes to switch from that field to computational science research and become a leading national advocate for diversity in the computer science field. Since earning a physics doctorate in 1975 from Stanford University, Dr. Roscoe Giles has carved […]

February 27, 2002

Seton Hall Reaches Low-Income Residents With Digital Divide Effort

Seton Hall Reaches Low-Income Residents With Digital Divide EffortSOUTH ORANGE, N.JInner-city students and their parents are getting exposure and training on computers and the Internet through Seton Hall University’s Project SHUTTLE. “Like the space shuttle, Project SHUTTLE takes people to places they have never been before,” says Willie Francine Brown, associate director of technology and […]

January 16, 2002

Study Says Minorities Get Better Auto Deals Online

Study Says Minorities Get Better Auto Deals OnlineBERKELEY, CALIF.A study conducted by researchers at the University of California’s Haas School of Business, the Yale School of Management, and J.D. Powers and Associates has revealed that women and minorities get better deals on car purchases by buying through the Internet rather than buying at car dealerships. […]

January 2, 2002

Study Examines Whether Broadband Redlining Exists

Study Examines Whether Broadband Redlining Exists WASHINGTONAmong the latest concerns of those seeking to bridge the technology gap between poor and affluent Americans is the availability of access to broadband, or high-speed, Internet service. A December 2001 study released by the AEI-Brookings Joint Center for Regulatory Studies has analyzed whether redlining is being practiced by […]

January 2, 2002

Law Professor Explores Digital Divide, Race in New Book

Law Professor Explores Digital Divide, Race in New BookOMAHA, Neb.Despite the increasing availability and affordability of information technology, minorities are likely to remain confined to being technology “have nots” in an American society which is becoming increasingly separated between technology “haves” and “have nots,” according to a Creighton University law professor in her recently published […]

January 2, 2002

U.N. Launches Digital Divide Venture to Reach the World’s Poor

U.N. Launches Digital Divide Venture to Reach the World’s PoorNew YorkLast month, the United Nations launched a global task force to help build universal interconnectivity and spread the benefits of the digital revolution to the world’s poor. An initiative of U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan, the Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) Task Force was set up […]

December 19, 2001

Faculty & Staff

Finding Room for Improvement

Finding Room for ImprovementHoward University-based team rates HBCU Web sitesThe perception that a “digital divide” exists in higher education between historically Black institutions and most predominantly White colleges and universities has enabled advocates for Black schools to raise money, attract computer equipment donations, and build awareness to help bridge the divide.One effort that started this […]

December 5, 2001

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