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Dear BI Career Consultants:What new pressures will community colleges experience when remediation is removed from four-year institutions?Dr. James Anderson, vice provost for undergraduate affairs and professor of counselor education, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, N.C.Today, a significant number of students who attend college need remedial courses. About one-third of the nation’s first-time, full-time freshmen in […]

April 11, 2001

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Penn Students Help to Bridge Digital Divide

Penn Students Help to Bridge Digital DividePHILADELPHIANonprofit organizations in West Philadelphia are getting help from the University of Pennsylvania to remain up to date with computer technology. A grant from the Corporation for National Service is supporting two full-time coordinators to implement computer training and to distribute hardware and software to community churches and high […]

March 28, 2001

HBCUs

Silicon Valley Under Fire for Weak Minority Recruitment Efforts

Silicon Valley Under Fire for Weak Minority Recruitment EffortsWhen Jeffrey Forbes, a native of New Jersey, chose to attend Stanford University and later the University of California-Berkeley in computer science, he believed their close proximity to Silicon Valley would help enhance his educational experience. “There’s great technology being developed by the companies out there,” says Forbes, […]

March 28, 2001

HBCUs

AOL Time Warner Playing a Part in Bridging the Technology Gap

AOL Time Warner Playing a Part in Bridging the Technology Gap By Ronald RoachDULLES, Va.hen it comes to digital divide issues, B. Keith Fulton is one of the most recognized authorities in the United States. Fulton first came to prominence as director of technology programs and policy at the National Urban League in the early […]

March 28, 2001

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‘Mercedes Divide’ Comment from New FCC Chair Causes More than a Ripple

‘Mercedes Divide’ Comment from New FCC Chair Causes More than a RippleMost news organizations barely raised their antennas when new Federal Communications Commission Chairman Michael K. Powell made his “Mercedes divide” statement to a group of reporters last month when asked about the existence of a “digital divide.” “I think there is a Mercedes divide,” […]

March 28, 2001

HBCUs

Historically Black Colleges Strive to Bring Campus Communities Up to Technological Speed

Historically Black Colleges Strive to Bring Campus Communities Up to Technological Speed But are they catching up?By Kendra HamiltonAdministrators at Morris Brown College were not prepared for the response they received when they made two announcements last year. First, the campus was going wireless and, second, every student and faculty member would be required to […]

March 28, 2001

Leadership & Policy

Making Information Technology a Compelling Read

Making Information Technology a Compelling ReadOne of the biggest challenges of writing about information technology is making the subject matter compelling for lay audiences. Having written for technical and business publications in the past, I have grown accustomed to using jargon and assuming my readers are well grounded in information technology. For readers uninterested in […]

March 28, 2001

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March 14, 2001

African-American

Harvard Establishes a Digital Divide Program in Boston

Harvard Establishes a Digital Divide Program in BostonBostonLast fall, news of the sale of Africana.com to the AOL Time Warner company generated considerable attention for Dr. Henry Louis Gates Jr., chair of Harvard University’s Department of Afro-American Studies, and Dr. Kwame Anthony Appiah, a professor in the university’s Afro-American Studies Department, who were founders and […]

February 28, 2001

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Dear BI Career Consultants:

Dear BI Career Consultants:Does it make sense to talk about the “Digital Divide” in terms of inclusion instead of division? Cardell Orrin Chief Information OfficerLeMoyne-Owen College, Memphis, Tenn.The change in terminology from “Digital Divide” to “digital inclusion” seems like a logical step forward. Inclusion would allow not only for the physical bridging of the Divide […]

February 14, 2001

Faculty & Staff

Building African American E-Culture

Building African American E-CultureSince his days as a graduate student at the University of Cincinnati, computer scientist Dr. Juan E. Gilbert has sought to make his research in instructional technology relevant to the needs of African American students.His dissertation focused on creating a Web-based tutoring program and offered not just one teaching style but a […]

January 31, 2001

HBCUs

The Army Marches Into Online Learning

The Army Marches Into Online LearningInitiative seeks participation of minority-serving institutionsWashingtonT he forces steering higher education’s shift towards online and distance learning have mostly favored the wealthiest and most prestigious institutions over the not-so-wealthy and less celebrated schools. Nevertheless, an ambitious initiative by the U.S. Army may help spur the inclusion of minority-serving institutions and […]

January 17, 2001