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Innovation &
Equity
 
 
10th Annual
Symposium
 
 
9 a.m. to 3 p.m.
 
 
Friday,
Jan. 15, 2010
 
 
Pier One
Port of San Francisco
San Francisco,
California
 
Shaping a
National Agenda
for
Cutting Edge
Inclusion
 
 
REGISTER
Charles E. Philips Jr.
Arnold Brown
David Drummond
Ursula Burns
Monte Ford
David Windley
Dr. Charles Isbell
Dr. Carol Espy-Wilson
Dr. Michael Drake
Dr. Eugene Washington
Dr.Mark J.T. Smith
Kevin Summers
Shirley Bridges
Ben-Saba Hasan
Mike Beasley
Bonnie Bracey Sutton
Randy Donaldson
Michael Ward
Daphne E. Jones
Charles Wallace
H. James Dallas
ISSUES IN INNOVATION:
Equity in Research Funding
for Higher Education
DEMOGRAPHICS
52,000 black bachelors graduates in science and engineering from 2003-2006
 
10,000 Black Masters graduates in S&E from 2003-2006
 
4,881 Black Doctorates in S&E from 2003-2007
 
FACT No. 1:  The top ten universities whose bachelor’s graduates receive doctorates
                      in Science and Engineering are Historically Black Colleges and Universities
Fact No. 2:  The largest source of research funding for higher education is the U.S.
                     government -- $31 billion of $51 billion
Fact No. 3:  Historically Black Colleges and Universities have gotten decreasing
                     amounts of research funding from the U.S. Government from 2003 to 2007
Fact No. 4:  HBCU Research funding of $420 million in 2007 declined from $422 million in                      
                     2003
HBCU grads perform well in S&E, but research funding declines to HBCUs
The top ten universities whose black bachelor’s graduates go on to receive doctorates in science and engineering are historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs), but federal spending at HBCU campuses has gone down for the past four fiscal years--to 1.1 percent of all federal education research spending, according to National Science Foundation data cited in Silicon Ceiling 9: Equal Employment and High Technology.
Between 2003 and 2007, according to NSF, 4,881 African-Americans received science and engineering doctorates.   Of that number, 1,449 received bachelor’s degrees from the 48 universities that produced the most eventual doctorates.  
Among the 48 schools, the 19 HBCUs produced 802 eventual doctorates compared to 647 at the 29 predominately white campuses.
HBCUs got a total of $420 million in research funding in 2007, the last year for which statistics are available, $353.8 million from the federal government--1.1% of the total $31 billion.  That was an absolute decrease from 2003, when they received a total of $422 million from all research funding sources and $360 million from the federal government.
The three HBCU campuses which produced the most graduates who eventually received doctorates all had sharp declines in research funding from the federal government.
Table 1.  Top ten universities whose bachelor’s graduates received science and engineering doctorates 2003-2007  Source: National Science Foundation as cited in Silicon Ceiling 9: Equal Opportunity and High Technology
 
Howard University
105
Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University
  76
Hampton University
   69
Spelman College
  68
Morehouse College
   63
Morgan State University
   50
Southern University and A & M College
   48
Xavier University of Louisiana
   45
North Carolina A & T State University
   42
Tuskegee University
   41
 
 
Howard’s federally-funded research declined from $40 million in 2004 to $33.9 million in 2007.  Florida A&M’s declined almost by half from $24.5 million to $14.5 million  Hampton’s declined from $31.4 million to $23.8 million from 2004 to 2007.
Spelman, whose Spelbots team has competed internationally, received just over $3 million in federal research money in 2007 and Winston-Salem State got just over $2 million.
 
 
Spelbots at the U.S. Senate.  Sen. Harry Reid, D-NV, meets the Spelbots robotics team with advisor Dr. Andrew Williams from Spelman College in November.
Dr. Elva Jones also teaches robotics in the new Elva Jones Computer Science Building at Winston-Salem State University.  Research funding builds facilities and capacity to teach more students.
NAACP’s Morris among Innovation & Equity speakers
Monique W. Morris is among the speakers during Innovation & Equity: the 10th Annual 50 Most Important African-Americans in Technology Symposium. She is the Vice President for Research and Advocacy for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). She has nearly 20 years of professional and volunteer experience as a scholar advocate in the areas of education, civil rights, juvenile justice, and social justice. Prior to joining the NAACP, Ms. Morris was the Director of Research and Senior Research Fellow at the Thelton E. Henderson Center for Social Justice at the University of California, Berkeley School of Law. She has also served as Director of the Discrimination Research Center, as senior research staff with the National Council on Crime and Delinquency, and as a consultant for the Corrections Standards Authority, the Contra Costa County Probation Department, and a number of nonprofit community based organizations. Ms. Morris is the author of Too Beautiful for Words and several articles, book chapters, and other publications on social and criminal justice issues. Ms. Morris is the principal author of the NAACP’s 2009 white paper, Year One: Toward Safe Communities, Good Schools, and a Fair Chance for All Americans, which was featured in the New York Times; and most recently, her paper, Discrimination and Lending in America: A Summary of the Disparate Impact of Subprime Lending on African Americans (NAACP), was featured for Congressman Al Green’s (D-TX) brain trust at the 2009 Congressional Black Caucus and was the focus of her presentation to the National Conference of Black Mayor’s 35th Annual Convention. Additionally, her 2008 study, A Higher Hurdle: Barriers to Employment for Formerly Incarcerated Women (UC Berkeley School of Law), which is one of the first testing studies to examine the impact of a criminal record or period of incarceration on the employment outcomes of women, was referenced in a special report commissioned by Congressman Danny K. Davis (D-IL). Ms. Morris is a leader in facilitating community response strategies designed to reduce the disproportionate representation of youth of color in the juvenile justice system. For over almost 15 years, she led efforts to examine and respond to racial disparities in the justice system. She has worked in partnership with state and county agencies, academic institutions and communities throughout the nation to develop comprehensive approaches and training curricula to eliminate ethnic and gender disparities in the justice system. Her work has informed the design and development of improved culturally-competent and gender-responsive continua of services for youth. Ms. Morris has also led research on language access at public health care facilities, equal access to employment, and the impact of anti-affirmative action legislation on people of color and women in public contracting. Her groundbreaking work on affirmative action and public contracting has led to public and private sector policy improvements to support the inclusion of businesses owned by people of color and women of all racial groups.http://www.wix.com/blkhztry/50MostRegistershapeimage_52_link_0
Dr. Danny Harris
Sharon Cates Williams
Melodie Mayfield-Stewart
Policy Makers
Entrepreneurs and Executives
Educators, Researchers
Vernon Viera
Ronald Fortune
Shellye Archambeau
Frank Washington
Jim Nanton
Karen Rupert Toliver
Roland Poindexter
Click on the highlighted names of the 10th Annual 50 Most Important African-Americans in Technology to see profiles, and in some cases, video and lesson plans based on their accomplishments.
Freedom Riders of the Cutting Edge
This 60-minute documentary interviews the earliest black pioneers of Silicon Valley in the 1950s and 1960s as they opened doors to high technology even before lunch counters were integrated. These stalwarts set the stage for today’s standouts.
The 50 Most Important African-Americans in Technology began with an exhibition Turning the Centery: African-American Innovators of the Industrial Age and the New Millennium in 1998 at the Tech Museum of Innovation in San Jose.  
Since then, it has raised the profile of black achievement in cutting edge industries and helped increase black employment in tech by 50 percent.
Jonathan Eubanks