Fort Valley State University

There’s a push under way to increase the number of African-American faculty in the area of computer sciences. Right now, blacks in the discipline make up only one percent of tenured faculty. But organizers of a conference recently held in Atlanta want to boost the numbers. Three FVSU students – Jeremy Rogers, Niraj Yadav and Paul Small, with faculty members Dr. John Dubriel and Dr. Cheryl Swanier – participated in the 3rd Annual African-American Researchers in Computing Sciences Conference at Spelman College.

Mr. and Miss Fort Valley State University, accompanied by their royal advisors Annette Johnson and Sammie Haynes, attend a leadership conference in Winston Salem North Carolina. The conference, sponsored by the HBCU Leadership for Queens and Kings Konnection, was a four day event held July 17-20, 2008.