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Article: Silicon Valley Under Fire for Weak Minority Recruitment Efforts.(Statistical Data Included)
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- Black Issues in Higher Education
- Article date:
- March 15, 2001
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Others say Blacks are waiting for an invitation to the high-tech mecca
When Jeffrey Forbes, a native of New Jersey, chose to attend Stanford University and later the University of California-Berkeley in computer science, he believed their close proximity to Silicon Valley would help enhance his educational experience.
"There's great technology being developed by the companies out there," says Forbes, who recently began teaching computer science at Duke University in Durham, N.C.
Even though working in Silicon Valley did not rate as high on his priority list as preparing to teach computer science as a future professor, Forbes noticed that ...