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Closing the Digital Divide at Minority-serving Institutions
By Charles Dervarics
Jul 24, 2007, 20:54
The U.S. Senate has approved a new $250 million federal program to address the digital divide at historically Black colleges, Hispanic-serving institutions and other minority-serving universities, as part of a far-reaching higher education reform bill that also simplifies the federal financial aid application.
The Senate added the technology initiative to the Higher Education Act Amendments of 2007, a bill that would target more funds for need-based financial aid as well as other improvements in federal higher education policy. Through the new program, minority-serving colleges could purchase hardware, software, wireless technology, digital networks and other infrastructure. They also could use proceeds to offer students universal access to campus networks...
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Closing the Digital Divide at Minority-serving Institutions
Now that's a new one to me. What's a "hispanic-serving" institution? And since they listed HBCUs separately, what are the other "minority-serving" universities? Can anybody provide some examples?
