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IT
Strategic Planning | Networking Capacity and Infrastructure
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Faculty Development Initiatives
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TTP
Networking Capacity and Infrastructure Building
The Internet,
computer databases, graphics, word processing, and e-mail are now
common education/workplace tools and students who bring experience
in these technologies with them to the workplace will have a significant
advantage. Research conducted by the Executive Leadership Foundation
(ELF) indicates that there is a wide range of available computer-based
technology as well as broad uses of technology among Historically
Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs). The financial investment
required to start and to maintain the infrastructure needed to deliver
the benefits of technology is, however, a consistent concern.
The ELF's Technology
Transfer Project (TTP) assists HBCUs in acquiring the telecommunications,
hardware, and software components needed to initiate or to advance
their technology strategic plans as well as to incorporate the use
of technology into the teaching and learning environments. The TTP
facilitates partnerships between participating schools and ELC corporate
members as well as other industry leaders to support the acquisition
of technology components for academic programs.
Some highlights
of current TTP initiatives:
- Rollout
of the ELF TTP Strategic Planning Model
for IT developed with support from Booz Allen & Hamilton.
TTP facilitated planning workshops and conducted meetings at partner
institutions with faculty, staff, and students to develop IT strategic
plans tied to the missions of the institutions.
- Establishment
of electronic classrooms in the name of the Executive Leadership
Foundation. The Hampton University School of Business dedicated
a classroom on February 24, 2000. Bethune-Cookman College dedicated
a 24-station wireless electronic classroom on March 20, 2000.
Both facilities will focus on the integration of technology in
the teaching and learning process.
- Incorporation
of technology into the teaching and learning process: Bringing
e-learning for faculty, staff, and students to the campus through
SmartForce, Internet-based courses. Conducting Technology Boot
Camp for Faculty to develop on-line versions of core courses.
- Development
of School-industry partnerships, such as:
- ORACLE
- Academic Alliance Initiative to provide software, technical
support, and training opportunities for IT Staff.
- DELL
- Contract Pricing for Purchases
- In order
to advance the networking capacity development of HBCUs and to
leverage its various initiatives across the entire community,
the TTP has agreed to coordinate the HBCU component of the NSF-funded
EDUCAUSE Advanced Networking for Minority-Serving Institutions
(AN-MSI) initiative.
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