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If Children Are the Future, Invest in Them Today

If Children Are the Future, Invest in Them TodayAs young people begin their trek back to school this fall, too many of them will be going to crowded and run-down classrooms. A full third of all public schools use portable classrooms. One-fifth have less than adequate safety features, including leaky roofs and spotty electrical power. […]

September 27, 2000

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State of the Internet Report Released

State of the Internet Report Released This year, more than 300 million people worldwide are online, with fewer than half from North America. This gap is expected to grow wider as the online population becomes more diverse, according to the “State of the Net” report by the U.S. Internet Council.This year’s report was written and […]

September 27, 2000

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VIRGINIA GOVERNOR CALLS FOR ACTION ON DIGITAL DIVIDE

VIRGINIA GOVERNOR CALLS FOR ACTION ON DIGITAL DIVIDELast month, Virginia Gov. James S. Gilmore III, a Republican, called on the information technology haves in northern Virginia to work with the have-nots in the state to establish a Digital Dominion that will “make the opportunities of the Internet available to every citizen.”Gilmore urged action during an […]

September 27, 2000

HBCUs

Black Colleges Networking On Technology Issues

Black Colleges Networking On Technology IssuesThree Major Conferences Slated When the school year starts, students are not alone in having to adjust to campuses that have upgraded their information-technology infrastructures and are using more technology in the classroom. Faculty and staff also struggle to keep abreast of the issues generated by rapid change. This fall, […]

September 27, 2000

HBCUs

Letters

DeVry happy to move overDear Editor,We read with great enthusiasm your recent article, “Move Over, DeVry,” announcing that historically Black colleges and universities now top the list of the number of computer and information science baccalaureate graduates (see Black Issues, June 22).We at DeVry are proud to have had the distinction of being one of […]

August 30, 2000

HBCUs

Good News Doesn’t Close Gaps

Good News Doesn’t Close GapsFour gaps define the African American economic experience for me — the income gap, the Digital Divide (or access gap), the credit gap and the education gap.In terms of the income gap, African Americans still earn a fraction of what Whites earn. While that fraction is larger with education, the gap […]

August 2, 2000

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Gates Talks Tech with Supportive Black Caucus

Gates Talks Tech with Supportive Black CaucusWASHINGTON — The day before a U.S. federal judge ordered software giant Microsoft split into two companies as penalty for antitrust violations, company founder and chairman Bill Gates dined privately here with Congressional Black Caucus members in a room in the U.S. Capitol. During the luncheon, organized as a […]

July 5, 2000

Community Colleges

We Must Keep Youth Thirsting For Education

We Must Keep Youth Thirsting For EducationRosa M. Jones, the 72-year-old mother of five children, received a Bachelor of Science degree in interdisciplinary studies from Norfolk State University in December 1999. Her accomplishment would have been notable at any age, under any circumstances, since fewer than 15 percent of all African Americans over age 25 […]

July 5, 2000

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Low-Income Workers Getting a High-Tech Hand from U. of Maryland

Low-Income Workers Getting a High-Tech Hand from U. of MarylandAs a youngster growing up in Baltimore, Ingrid Hitchens imagined she would attend college one day. But after having a baby while in her teens, Hitchens let go of that plan and focused on taking care of her child. “I thought about going to college, but […]

June 7, 2000

HBCUs

Tech Briefs

Hobsons HBCU Guide To Include Atlanta University SchoolsATLANTA — The four historically Black schools that make up the Atlanta University Center are the latest institutions to sign up for inclusion in Hobsons Publications “The Guide to Historically Black Colleges and Universities.” The interactive CD-ROM will feature detailed information about Clark Atlanta University, Morehouse College, Morris […]

May 24, 2000

Community Colleges

Conference Examines Digital Divide

Conference Examines Digital DivideAs an administrator and computer science instructor at West Los Angeles College, Zenobia Millet had a busy agenda last month at the Community College Foundation’s Tech Ed 2000 educational technology conference in Palm Springs, Calif. Looking to forge partnerships with computer software and hardware companies, Millet spent much of her time meeting […]

April 26, 2000

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Technology, Learning and the Future of Education

Technology, Learning and the Future of EducationA few weeks ago, a newly minted dot-com millionaire opined in The New York Times that higher education was hardly necessary. Why not put it all on the Internet, he asked — the great books, stirring lectures and rigorous exams? Why not let people teach themselves? Why allow higher […]

April 12, 2000