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Sophomores converged on West Virginia University Institute of Technology college campuses for the 31st annual Health Sciences & Technology Academy camp, designed to prepare them for careers in tech and other fields.
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Artificial intelligence places whole term papers and complex mathematical solutions within the grasp of today’s students. Rather than simply banning it, educators must train themselves and provide what it cannot.
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Citing redundancies in the federal government, the Trump administration's new workforce development partnership shifts oversight of adult education and career training programs to the Department of Labor.
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A private liberal arts college in New York has added five new technology-oriented hybrid learning programs including cybersecurity, data analysis, web design, game development and digital marketing.
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Adam Garry, senior director of education strategy at Dell, says in a Q&A that schools could better prepare students by developing an ideal portrait of a graduate and moving to portfolio assessments instead of tests.
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The State University of New York's Adirondack campus says the first Black woman to graduate from its cybersecurity program will do so this year. It's a field that has historically included few women and Black students.
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University officials say they've identified the recent problem with Internet connectivity across campus, and they have no evidence it was due to a cybersecurity incident or that personal information has been compromised.
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The university is still without network services after shutting them down last week due to a possible cyber attack, leaving students without access to study materials and forcing professors to reach out on Facebook.
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Colleges and universities in Pennsylvania have partnered with technology and aviation companies, engineering firms and other industry leaders to fill vacant positions in direly understaffed fields like cybersecurity.
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A public tribal land-grant community college in Minnesota will use federal grant money to upgrade Internet service and security, learning software and computers, and provide service plans for students on and off campus.
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Iowa's public universities are issuing guidance, forming committees, crafting assignments and churning out research on how best to take advantage of ChatGPT and how to guard against its limitations and potential harms.
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An all-female Catholic high school in Ohio is trying to give its students a leg up in health sciences with immersive 3D virtual reality software that visualizes the human body at different scales and positions.
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Stanislaus State is bringing networks back online after shutting them down last week due to suspicious activity, which caused major disruption across campus. It's still investigating and has not specified what happened.
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Northern Essex Community College is one of seven in Massachusetts to participate in a pilot program giving students access to digital textbooks, courseware, and materials on the Lumen Learning platform.
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The U.S. Department of Education’s “Raise the Bar” initiative aims to use investment, localized partnerships and awareness campaigns to expand access to high-quality career and technical education programs.
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Some students thought it was callous of the Office of Equity, Diversity and Inclusion to use ChatGPT to write an email about community and understanding in the wake of a shooting at Michigan State University.
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From executives to professors, staff at UNL see enormous innovative potential, complications for their own work and the possibility of negative long-term effects as they contemplate the inevitable roles of AI chatbots.
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An AI detection company and a higher ed software company are collaborating on an AI text detector that can scan thousands of student assignments across an institution's entire teaching and learning ecosystem.
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Citing concerns about potential influence of entities tied to the Chinese government, Gov. Ron DeSantis announced a proposal that would block networks and devices from being able to access the social media platform.
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The university's School of Management will host EY Americas cybersecurity leader Dave Burg to discuss cybersecurity issues critical to the integrity of business processes and financial information.
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Common misconceptions about career and technical jobs — including what kinds of work and skills they involve, and how much they pay — are hurting students and industries, and future workforce needs necessitate a change.
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