Daily News on Historically Black Colleges and Universities
As part of its increasing emphasis on technology in education, Virginia State University’s Reginald F. Lewis School of Business has deployed an academic social network in an effort to boost student engagement.
Specifically the school is using GoingOn Networks’ Academic Engagement Network. It utilizes smart-stream technology, which lets students share and publish content using activity streams similar to Facebook.
via Virginia State Taps Social Tools for Student Engagement — Campus Technology.
Texas students will now have college preparation tutelage and admissions assistance come to them, as Jarvis Christian College last month unveiled a new MobileGo Center on its campus. From the release:
The Mobile Go Center is an internet-equipped mobile computer lab that is designed to provide access to resources for college preparation and the admissions process. The funding for the Mobile Go Center was received through a grant from the Texas Pioneer Foundation. The foundation awarded Jarvis with $104,729.19.
How quickly can a place like Dulles Airport be evacuated in an emergency without putting people in danger? That’s the question students at Bowie State University are working to answer using a new virtual reality laboratory and advanced 3-D equipment to simulate emergency evacuation scenarios.
Backed by a $300,000 grant from the National Science Foundation, students and faculty in the Computer Science Department have created ‘virtual’ environments to evaluate emergency evacuation procedures for sites like airports, airplanes and large buildings. Sophisticated equipment enables them to evaluate the impact of crowd behavior, time and signage during the evacuation.
If you’ve ever received an email or text hours after it was sent and privately raged at having missed a deadline, or twiddled your thumbs while waiting for a webpage to load, then you’ve been a victim of Internet latency.
Latency can occur for a number of reasons associated with disruption of an information lane such as an electronic wire or fiber optic cable, or from an overload of Internet-based messaging that can occur with increased network traffic.
via Coming soon to a server near you: fewer internet delays.
The Washington Times today reports that a Howard University Hospital employee has been charged with selling the personal information of hospital patients for more than a year.
Alabama State University today announced that former Hornet linebacker Nigel Carr has signed a free agent deal with the Baltimore Ravens.
The Tallahassee Democrat today reports that Florida A&M University will continue to offer degree programs in music despite the uncertain status of the Marching 100.
The University System of Georgia Board of Regents last week announced Dr. Cheryl Davenport Dozier as the permanent president of Savannah State University. Dr. Dozier, a Masters of Social Work alumna of Atlanta University, had held the position on an interim basis since April of 2011, and in that time, has created successful initiatives to improve customer service, alumni giving and retention.
