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Faculty & Staff

N.C. State Preserves Black History with Mobile Web App

North Carolina State University offers its university community and visitors “Red, White & Black,” a self-guided walking tour mobile device web app that documents African-American history at the school.

February 17, 2013

Students

Gov. Haley Said S.C. Schools Have to Earn Their Keep

Gov. Nikki Haley wants South Carolina’s colleges and universities to earn the money they are given.

October 10, 2012

Home

New York Community Colleges Get Funds for Job Training

The federal government is providing $14.6 million to 23 community colleges in New York to enhance job-training programs while other colleges statewide are expected to benefit from private investment linked to the grants.

September 19, 2012

Faculty & Staff

Talking ‘Microaggressions’ With Dr. Derald Wing Sue

Columbia University psychology professor Derald Wing Sue recently spoke to Diverse about his latest book, Microaggressions in Everyday Life: Race, Gender, and Sexual Orientation. The book insightfully describes the existence of subtle, often unintentional biases and their considerable impact on members of traditionally disadvantaged groups.

September 3, 2011

Latinx

Forum: Digital Divide Could Leave Latinos Further Behind in Education, Jobs

Panelists at a Tuesday forum held by the National Council of La Raza (NCLR) suggested that lack of broadband Internet access could hinder the progress of Latinos living in the U.S.

July 26, 2011

African-American

Teen Girls Discover Digital Technology as ‘COMPUGIRLS’

Dr. Kimberly Scott, an associate professor in women and gender studies at Arizona State University, the digital divide is not just about “who has access to computers, but what happens during that access.”

March 31, 2011

Home

Facebook’s Goldman Deal Shows Why Tech IPOs Are So Scarce

A few months ago, I had lunch with a prominent technology venture capitalist. Like many other VC leaders, he was focused on businesses growing in China, but he was adamant that his Chinese portfolio companies not list in the U.S. — and with good reason.

January 10, 2011

African-American

For Minorities, A New ‘Digital Divide’

Some experts see a new “digital divide” emerging with Latinos and Blacks being challenged by more, not less, access to technology.

January 9, 2011

Latinx

Broadband Usage Growing Even as Gaps Persist

The U.S. still faces a significant gap in residential broadband use that breaks down along incomes, education levels and other socio-economic factors, even as subscriptions among American households overall grew sevenfold from 2001 to 2009.

November 9, 2010

Students

Making it Mandatory

With high-profile digital devices such as the Apple iPad hitting the consumer market, higher education institutions consider the latest wave of mobile computing gadgets for adoption as campuswide tools.

March 30, 2010

African-American

Tech Savvy HBCUs Keeping Pace With Innovation, Others Lag

Closing the so-called digital divide is becoming less of a possibility for many HBCUs.

March 25, 2010

MSIs

Obama’s First Year: Many Ideas, Some Achievements

For many higher education leaders, President Barack Obama’s first year presented a watershed moment to outline new goals and raise the visibility of postsecondary issues. Now, however, the task is to get more of these ideas out of the proposal stage and into law.

February 9, 2010