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A Re-Examination of Racioethnic Imbalance of IS Doctorates: Changing the Face of the IS Classroom

By Fay Cobb Payton,  Sharon D. White and Victor Mbarika

The Journal of the Association for Information Systems (JAIS) Vol. 6 No. 1, pp. 37-51/ January, 2005

Article Abstract

There is an extremely low percentage of minority faculty in the IS field. This global trend is highly conspicuous-- a minority of blacks compared to a majority of white academics in England, a minority of Aborigines compared to a majority of white academics in Australia, a minority of blacks compared to a majority of white academics in Canada, and for the purpose of our study, a minority of Native American, Hispanic American, and African American academics compared to a majority of white academics in the United States.

TeleEducation in Africa: A Possible Panacea for Sub-Saharan Africa’s Educational Dilemma

Victor W. A. Mbarika

IEEE Technology and Society. Vol. 22, #4, 2004. pp. 20-26.

"A university without walls" is set to offer new hope for Africa's students who are left behind in the scramble to join the continent's limited colleges and universities. .... "We (The African Virtual University-- AVU) are offering a high-tech solution to a continent grappling with declining budgets, outdated equipment, inadequate staff and limited space for higher education,"

says Professor George Eshiwani, vice-chancellor of Nairobi's Kenyatta University, who heads AVU International [3].

The statement above represents a technological revolution that has come to provide a possible solution to the extremely low levels of education in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA).