"Weekly Dozens" -- Sunday Magazine -- Covers Week Ending 5/31/14

Last updated: Sunday 6/1/14 @ 3:19 pm

Below find links to the Digital Learning Lab's "Dozens" of favorite academic news items posted by HBCU media and other media on Twitter about HBCUs' teaching, research, and community service for the week ending Saturday 5/31/14 @ 5:00 pm ... in chronological order from latest to earliest ... Links to previous editions of the Dozens can be found here ==> Back issues ... Note that back issues can be searched for old tweets.

A. News | B. Teaching | C. Technology | D. Hackers | E. Comments | F. Events | G. History | H. Opportunities

This week's cover = Photo of Dr. Maya Angelou whose passing is commemorated by many tweets and other photos in the History section ... photo via Good Morning America (ABC)

Other big stories included ECSU's reprieve from closure in the News section ... Apple's purchase of Beats & Google's un-diversity in the Technology section ... and the Hackathons in Atlanta & Los Angeles that were part of National Civic Hacking Day on Saturday 5/31/14 in the Hackers section

 

HBCU CONNECT Recruits Black Techies for Microsoft

Last updated: Thursday 5/29/14 @ 9:49 pm

This evening I attended a recruitment event for an information technology behemoth that was organized by HBCU CONNECT, one of the first online media companies to focus on HBCUs. Within five minutes after the presentations began, I knew with the absolute certainty of the little girl in the Wizard of Oz movie that I was neither in Kansas nor was I attending a Google recruitment festival. Why? Because there were too many smart black techies in the front of the room ... :-)

"Weekly Dozens" -- Week Ending Saturday 5/17/14

Last updated: Sunday 5/20/14 @ 11:17 pm

Below find links to the Digital Learning Lab's "Dozens" of favorite academic news items posted by HBCU media and other media on Twitter about HBCUs' teaching, research, and community service for the week ending Saturday 5/17/14 ... in chronological order from latest to earliest ... Links to previous editions of the Dozens can be found here ==> Back issues ... Note that back issues can be searched for old tweets.

A. News | B. Teaching | C. Technology | D. Hackers | E. Comments | F. Events | G. History | H. Opportunities

This week's magazine cover = photo of Thurgood Marshall and some NAACP Legal Defense Fund colleagues after victory in landmark Brown vs. Board of Education Supreme Court sixty years ago in 1954 ... photo via tweet by @NAACP_LDF

Click photo for related tweets in Black History section of magazine from @NAACP_LDF and others