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How Higher Ed Can Help Underserved Communities Access Broadband

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

That’s why Mossberger and other experts want to see universities and colleges coordinate with the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) to disperse the roughly $48 billion allotted toward programs that create greater digital equity. “It’s important for economic development as well as individual opportunities.

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Dr. Ellen M. Granberg, George Washington University

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Granberg has 11 years of prior experience leading large integrated software development teams in the telecommunications industry. Granberg commits herself to building on the institution’s legacy in education, research, and scholarship as well as its notable patient care and service.

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Stillman College Receives $2.7 Million to Bolster Internet Infrastructure

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Stillman College has received $2.7 million to improve its internet access and performance through fiber optic infrastructure upgrades. Stillman in particular, will use its grant funding to overhaul its fiber network, installed in the late 1980s and ‘90s, and wireless network, said Abe Harper, Stillman’s chief information officer.

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As Federal Connectivity Programs Sunset, Internet Access Remains Critical

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

According to the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA), one in five U.S. In May 2021, the FCC established the Emergency Connectivity Fund (ECF) Program, offering similar discounts specifically for schools and libraries on wireless connections, hotspots, routers, modems, laptops , and computers.

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Mapping the Legacy of RPI's First African American Woman Leader

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Jackson leveraged her knowledge of physics to advance telecommunications research at Bell Laboratories, which influenced the creation of the portable fax, the touch-tone phone and the technology behind caller ID and call waiting,” the Black digital media publication notes. “The I’ve had that kind of extraordinary set of opportunities.

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Laying the Foundation for Higher Education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

For example, at a pharmaceutical company, they’ll learn about chemistry, and at a telecommunications company, they’ll hear about technology. While working at AT&T as an engineer, she joined the company’s group for Hispanic employees and was asked to go speak to a class of middle school students in Newark, New Jersey. She gladly agreed.

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Princeton Seminarians Call For Trustee’s Removal

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More than 300 Princeton Theological Seminary students and alumni signed a letter to the institution’s president asking that a Board of Trustees member be removed for his ties to a prison telecommunications company.