University officials are sensitive to today’s campus threats—guns on campus, high-risk drinking, violence against women/domestic violence — but Kent State University President Lester A. Lofton said what concerned him most was the unknown, what will be tomorrow’s threat? And how do you prepare for the unknown?
Switching gears, Diverse senior writer Ronald Roach reports on the progress historically Black colleges and universities have made in upgrading their campus technology. In 2000, a study undertaken by the National Association for Equal Opportunity in Higher Education found HBCUs lagging in IT development and became the basis for federal legislation aimed at bridging the technology gap. HBCU and technology officials say that much progress has been made in the area of computer labs and student ownership of computers. Readmore in“Making Strides.”
And in “Providing a ‘Full Circle of Support,’” contributing editor Mary Annette Pember reports on the American Indian Science and Engineering Society’s efforts over the past 30 years to encourage Native students to pursue STEMdisciplines. And although American Indians are still severely underrepresented in the sciences, AISES founders take pride in the fact that they have helped take “the legs off themyth that American Indians can’t domath and science.”
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