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After transitioning from Fairfield University’s leader of enterprise systems to director of IT strategy and enterprise architecture for the state of Connecticut, Armstrong will return to higher-ed leadership in January. -
To prevent students from relying on artificial intelligence to write and do homework for them, many professors are returning to pre-technology assessments and having students finish essays in class.
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A new online course aims to train instructors on how to incorporate a growth mindset into existing teaching practices, as it can positively impact student experience and outcomes.
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Colleges and universities spent much of the past year adopting ad-hoc approaches to generative AI tools such as ChatGPT, and uncertainty remains about how to use it most effectively and where the constraints should be.
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The pace of change and technological innovation over the past few years has given education and IT leaders a lot to think about. Five things that stand out are online learning, AI, cybersecurity, staffing and diversity.
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The Illinois Graduate and Retain Our Workforce (iGROW) Tech Act will offer grants to college students majoring in computer science, information technology or related fields, covering up to the full cost of tuition.
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A recent report from the risk management company AAAtraq found that 97 percent of U.S. college and university websites do not fully comply with requirements of the Americans with Disabilities Act.
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UMass Chan Medical School learned about a security incident on June 1 that may have compromised names, birthdates, social security numbers, financial accounts or other sensitive information of more than 134,000 people.
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A public college in Texas last week broke ground on a $24 million facility that will provide training in diesel equipment technology, electrical lineworker and management technology, HVAC and plumbing technology.
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A new facility will meet the needs of a joint cybersecurity program at Calumet College of St. Joseph, a private Roman Catholic college in Indiana, and the nearby Lake County campus of Ivy Tech Community College.
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Formerly known as Buzz, an anonymous social media platform created by Stanford students is gaining traction on college campuses, having expanded to at least 80 schools and brought in $41.5 million in total funding.
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A vendor used by the Georgia Teachers Retirement System to prevent benefit overpayments was part of the widely reported MOVEit hack, potentially impacting those who were paid benefits between March 1 and May 26.
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Addressing the AImpactEd Summit on Monday, digital strategist and education author Dan Fitzpatrick stressed the need for teachers to familiarize themselves with AI tools to enhance instruction.
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As part of a new $11 million program in Ithaca, N.Y., Cornell researchers want to make AIs fluent with calculus so they can derive the underlying differential equations that govern physical systems.
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Following the success of biology courses aided by technology from Dreamscape Immersive, Arizona State University is hoping to make more use of virtual reality for other course subjects moving forward.
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After a somewhat chaotic year in which professors grew suspicious of their students' writing and navigated new territory largely without clear guidance, colleges and universities still face inevitable change.
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Neither the Hawaii Department of Education nor the University of Hawaii are considering outright bans on ChatGPT, but educators are waiting for more professional development or guidance how to use it.
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A cybersecurity breach in July may have exposed the names, Social Security numbers, student ID numbers or other education records or more than a decade's worth of college and high school students in Colorado.
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A public university in Louisiana says a cyber attack in February did not compromise personal identifiable information, although a cybersecurity firm found 150 gigabytes of the university's data on the dark web in April.
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Since discovering a cyber attack on its network last month, a public university in Kentucky removed updates on the matter from its website but said it's keeping its network closed and working with vendors.
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Emphasizing the importance of cyber-range simulations and hands-on training, experts from Cyberbit said in a webinar on Thursday that such exercises are becoming part of university strategies to meet workforce demands.
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