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Life, Liberty and Technology

Life, Liberty and TechnologyI was browsing at a bookstore the other day when a young brother, an engineering graduate of an historically Black college, walked up behind me with a group of his friends, talking loudly about a book he was looking for. “I’ve got to learn this CAD thing, man,” he said to one […]

January 19, 2000

Breaking the Science Barrier

Breaking the Science BarrierAs we cross the threshold of a new millennium, the extraordinary global economic expansion, driven primarily by American technological innovation, is a dazzling affirmation of our nation’s preeminence. Advances still unfolding in America’s research laboratories — from quantum computing and “moletronics” to synthetic genes and evolutionary algorithms — portend a mastery over […]

December 22, 1999

Research For the New Millennium

Research For the New MillenniumAre you tired of the new millennium yet? Lord knows I am. Tired of conferences predicting the status of African Americans in the new millennium, the status of education in the new millennium, 10 steps for making it in the new millennium and you get my drift. There will be no […]

November 24, 1999

Tech Briefs

Making an Investment to Close the Digital Divide PROVIDENCE, R.I. — A lot of attention is being given, lately, to the digital divide between the information technology haves and have–nots. In an attempt to bridge that chasm, Brown University and MCI WorldCom, with the encouragement of the Rainbow/PUSH Coalition, have announced a new program that […]

October 27, 1999

A Test-Taking Frenzy

A Test-Taking FrenzyCollege Board Says Minorities Taking SAT and AP Courses in Record NumbersWASHINGTON — Record numbers of high school students are taking college entrance exams, their scores are improving — if only slightly — and the agencies that administer the tests are calling the 1990s a “decade of promise.”And keeping pace with the overall […]

September 15, 1999

The Digital Divide Isn’t The Only Gap

The Digital Divide Isn’t The Only GapPerhaps because we are racing toward a new millennium burdened by the problems of the last century or so, analysts are dissecting the new divides without coming to grips with the old ones.There is much discussion, for example, of the digital divide — the difference in access that African […]

September 1, 1999

The Higher Education Technology Revolution

The Higher Education Technology RevolutionNowhere in higher education has there been as much change as in the use of information technology. Not only have information technology advances provided institutions useful tools like personal computers and campus computer networks, but changes spurred by information technology (IT) advances are leading to a transformation of higher education.“[Information technology] […]

August 18, 1999

UNCF Examines Digital Divide On Campus

UNCF Examines Digital Divide On Campusby Ronald RoachNearly a month before the federal government’s July release of Falling Through the Net: Defining the Digital Divide — a report that details the disparities of computer ownership and Internet usage among Americans along racial, ethnic, and income lines (see Net Report Stirs Concern, next page) — The […]

August 4, 1999

Washington Update

Black Caucus Demonstrates Support for FCC’s E-Rate DecisionFor the Congressional Black Caucus, the chance to influence a major decision on education was too good to pass up.In what they termed an “unprecedented” visit, 15 caucus members filled a hearing room at the Federal Communications Commission as it voted on future funding for the e-rate, the […]

July 7, 1999

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