ComputerWorld, 1/30/2000 (Curvie Burton, Yvonne Sharpe, Joe Thompson, George Williams)

Beyond the Racial Ravine. How can the information technology profession close the gap between affluent people and impoverished members of minority groups with little exposure to technology or opportunity to move into the field? One organization working toward that goal is Black Data Processing Associates (www.bdpa.org) in Largo, Md., a leading organization of African-American IT professionals. We invited four top BDPA officials to discuss their work with Allan E. Alter and Martine Severin...

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Network World, 10/13/1997 (Willie Fields, Sheila McCaskill, Yvonne Sharpe, George Williams)

Diversity Disconnect, Part 2. Second in a two-part series on diversity in network IS. Part 1, which ran last week, examined the factors that caused the diversity problem. This installment focuses on how to remedy the situation...

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Network World, 10/6/1997 (Curvie Burton, Rudy Duke, Earl Pace, Jesse Rodgers, Yvonne Sharpe, George Williams, Anne York)

Diversity Disconnect, Part 1. Jesse Rodgers had been standing watch over LANs at paper products magnate James River Corp. for more than 11 years, so he knew his network skills were sharp. He was confident senior IT management would promote him from net supervisor to network manager, even considered it a formality. After all, he already was responsible for key e-mail, Internet connectivity, server administration and other network services. His only competition was a project manager who, although he had a year or two of seniority, lacked comparable network skills...

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