Vita
Dr. Linda Hayden
Dr. Linda Hayden
- Dr. Linda Hayden,
a minority female, is a tenured full professor of computer science with
over 25 years of college experience teaching and nurturing student researchers.
Dr. Hayden, who joined the faculty of ECSU in 1980, is well known to
departmental students, their parents and/or spouses.
- She has long been involved in minority intervention programs and has several publications in that area. The results of her long range study of high ability students involved in intervention programs were published in School Science and Mathematics Journal, April 1990. This study examines the "Effects of Participation in Intervention Programs for High Ability Minority Students on High School Graduation Rates, Rates of College Enrollment and Selection of a Quantitative Major."
- Her other studies have served to document the work of minority intervention programs, laying the foundation for evaluation of these programs and facilitating the replication of successful programs. Results of her evaluation of the Saturday Academy Program housed at the University of the District of Columbia, were used by NASA as justification for funding replication programs in Pasadena Unified School District of California, Fayetteville State University in North Carolina, and J. Sergent Reynolds Community College in Virginia.
- The Office of Minority Participation of the Mathematics Association of America has referenced Dr. Hayden's quantitative studies in its reports to and funding request of Carnegie Corporation. The SUMMA (Strengthening Underrepresented Minority Mathematics Achievement Program) Intervention Planning Grants resulted from those reports.
- She serves as Evaluation Chairperson on the 10 member-Symposium Committee charged with planning the 1996 ACM/SIGCSE conference. This meeting will mark the 50th Anniversary Celebration consisting of a year-long series of events and special programs beginning in Philadelphia, PA in February, 1996 -- the 50th anniversary of "turning on" the ENIAC -- culminating, in San Jose in February 1997.
- Dr. Hayden received a B.S. degree from Virginia State University, a masters degree in mathematics education from the University of Cincinnati and a masters degree in computer science from Old Dominion University. She received her Ph.D. in mathematics education from American University.
- She was instrumental in establishing ECSU as one of seven "Regional Network Resources and Training Site" for NASA and serves as Director of the NRTS center. The NRTS provides computer networking expertise and training for science faculty members at ECSU and at partner institutions. Partner institutions include Norfolk State University, Hampton University, Bennett College, Fayetteville State University, University of North Carolina at Pembroke and Virginia State University. Several secondary schools will also benefit from participation in the NRTS including the 1000 students in ECSU's Talent Search Program.
- She has long been involved in minority intervention programs and has several publications in that area. The results of her long range study of high ability students involved in intervention programs were published in School Science and Mathematics Journal, April 1990. This study examines the "Effects of Participation in Intervention Programs for High Ability Minority Students on High School Graduation Rates, Rates of College Enrollment and Selection of a Quantitative Major."