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Last updated: Saturday 7/4/15 

Links to the most popular notes on the HBCU-Levers blog are grouped into themes:

A. Misc 

• The White Man's Trick Bag (October 2011)
• A Short Memoir About a Writing Class Without a Teacher (August 2012)
• MOOCs and Other Online Courses Don't Have to Be as Good as Face-to-Face Courses (August 2012)
• What can corporate management teach academia??? (June 2012)
• Graduation Rates of Black Students at Top STEM Colleges and Universities (August 2014)

B. Computational Thinking -- Coding Literacy

• Hackers 2.0 -- Exemplars (September 2014)
• Making Hackathons More Understandable and More Fun for Remote Observers -- (updated with Exemplars ... November 2014)
• "Coding Literacy" a/k/a "Computational Thinking" (November 2014)

• Community Chats -- We need an app for that (December 2014)

• Waves of Code and Waves of Coders (December 2014)
• Black America Needs More Oaklands (January 2015)
• Coding Movements: Mainstream vs. Grass Roots (February 2015)

C. Digital Divide, Silicon Valley, Digital Apps

• Fight or Flight (January 2012)
• One Million Plus Non-Black Apps (March 2012) 
• Washington, DuBois, and Silicon Valley (April 2012)
• Moses, Joshua, and Instagram (April 2012)
• Black Students Online (March 2013)
• Virtual HBCUs, Mobile Apps, and Hip Hop Moguls (November 2013)
• Fight Club ... Dr. Diddy vs. Dr. Dr. Dre (May 2014) 
• Of Silicon Valley, the Talented Tenth, Bright Stars, Dark Stars, HBCUs, and Affirmative Action (November 2014)
• Silicon Valley's Search for Bright Stars and Dark Stars (July 2015)

D. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs)

• MOOCs in Brief (July 2012)
• Video Introductions to cMOOCs for HBCUs (August 2012)
• HBCUs and MOOCs (May 2012)
• The MOOC MOOC and HBCUs (August 2012)
• Confessions of a MOOC Dropout (January 2013)
• MOOCs as eBooks (April 2013) 
• Pass the MOOCs -- Part 1 (New Job) (May 2015)
• Pass the MOOCs -- Part 2 (Underestimations) (June 2015)
• Pass the MOOCs -- Part 3 (Udacity) (June 2015)
• Pass the MOOCs -- Part 4 (STEM vs. Humanities) (July 2015)

E. Why are HBCUs Still Needed?

• Part I (June 2009), Part II (July 2009), Part III (February 2012), Part IV (May 2012), Part V (November 2013) 
• From HBCUs to BCUs (August 2010)
• But What About the Other 91 Percent??? (October 2012) 
• Manifesto (March 2014)

F. Best HBCUs

• The Best HBCU (June 2009)
• The Best HBCUs in STEM (November 2010)
• The Best HBCUs for Online Degrees in 2012 (August 2012)

G.  Strategies for HBCU Success

• HBCUs, Non-traditional Students, and Distance Learning (August 2006) 
• Crossing the Finish Line at HBCUs (October 2009)
  
• The HBCU Community as a National Laboratory for U.S. Higher Education (August 2009)
• Academically Adrift -- A Dissenting View (June 2011)
• The White Man's Trick Bag (October 2011)
  
• HBCU Websites -- Some Best Practices (June 2012)
• Seven HBCU Strategies for Survival and Success (July 2012)
• A Framework for Developing Online and Blended Degree & Certificate Programs for Non-Traditional Students (August 2012) 
• Telling HBCU Success Stories (September 2012)
• Why North Carolina's Five Public HBCUs Are Still Needed (April 2013)
• Strategic Partners for HBCU Online Programs -- Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4 (Sept/Oct 2013)
• Booker T 2 (October 2013)

H. Virtual HBCUs

• Virtual HBCUs as Strategic Alliances (October 2013)
• Virtual HBCUs Should Offer MOOCS for Internet-Based Entrepreneurs (October 2013)
• Virtual HBCUs -- Three Potential Strategic Alliances (October 2013)
• Virtual Groups at Virtual HBCUs Developing Mobile Applications in Virtual Labs ... October 2013 
• Virtual HBCUs, Mobile Apps, and Hip-Hop Moguls (November 2013)
• 2014, a Good Year for HBCUs and Virtual HBCUs to (Quietly) Flip and MOOC (December 2013)
• 2014 ... Also a Good Year for HBCUs and Virtual HBCUs to Think About Competency-Based Education (January 2014)

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