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mployers featured in USBE&IT magazine’s Spring issue have one thing in common: Their mission areas, regardless of their sectors, are about young people like you taking them to the future. In “One on One,” Lt Gen Robert Ferrell, chief information officer, U.S. Army, tells us that he expects your support as the service
works on building its technology, educating new cyber professionals, and strengthening the security of networks. Gen. Ferrell is overseeing transformation of the Signal Corps.
From day one, preparing students to meet future workforce needs captivated Oliver “Bo” Leslie, who is retiring as program manager for Historically Black Colleges/Universities and Minority Institutions at Boeing. Over an almost 40-year career, his efforts mushroomed, providing a vehicle for reaching HBCUs and minority institutions across America and preparing people like you who will build Boeing’s jetliners, satellites, electronic and defense systems and create the technology of the future. Leslie won the BEYA for Affirmative Action in Supplier Diversity in 2008 and his citation praised his accomplishments in bringing about possibilities for Boeing and HBCU-Minority Institutions, to take part in what Leslie called the “technological paradigm shift.” That shift saw Boeing earn the No. 1 spot on USBE&IT’s “Top Supporters of HBCU Engineering Schools” list three years in a row. In 2006, records show that Boeing campus hires were almost double that of the previous year and the company increased its sub-contracting dollars spent at HBCU-MIs by 35 percent. John Lee, VP of the office for access and success at the Association of Public and Land-Grant Universities, told “On Campus” with more than 100 patents issued to HBCUs since 1970, including 17 in 2012, the expectation is that you will be part of the roster of students, researchers, scientists and inventors at HBCUs—perhaps someday mirroring the accomplishments of inventors like Granville Woods, Garrett Morgan and George Washington Carver, Mark Dean, Lonnie G. Johnson and James E. West.
Tyrone D. Taborn Publisher and Editorial Director
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