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As artificial intelligence and digital tools continually reshape their coursework, students say common frustrations include a lack of clear AI guidance, an overabundance of tools and apps, and Wi-Fi connectivity issues. -
A multiyear initiative between a private historically Black liberal arts college and a tech company will expose up to 750 high school students in the Birmingham area to AI technology and workforce opportunities.
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A new facility at Portland Community College is helping students practice specialized manufacturing skills and cleanroom protocols using equipment that simulates a real manufacturing environment.
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Rochester Community and Technical College is the latest of a dozen Minnesota institutions that now provide two-year degree programs for which students can use online and AI-generated materials instead of textbooks.
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In collaboration with NASA’s Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe (IMAP) mission, Sonoma State University students built and launched a satellite to monitor how solar wind interacts with the upper atmosphere.
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Comparing the fall semester before COVID to this fall semester, UND has seen a 60 percent increase in students taking only online courses and a 98 percent increase in students taking both online and face-to-face courses.
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A growing number of college professors are choosing to bar laptop and phone use in class, citing studies that show students who take notes by hand often perform better on tests.
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The new 62,000-square-foot campus modernizes university-sponsored K-12 education with labs and collaborative spaces supporting biology, computing, robotics and more. A state budget appropriation helped fund it.
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A team at the university has received a total of $1.8 million in grant funding to study how virtual reality spaces can assist students with ADHD in completing their homework and staying on task.
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Princeton University is facing a pair of proposed class-action lawsuits alleging it failed to protect personal data exposed from a November phone-based phishing scam.
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The institution is the latest Ivy League to be targeted by cyber attackers. Emails and donation activity were compromised. Princeton University and the University of Pennsylvania were hit earlier this fall.
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For all the hype around innovation and best practices, it can be easy to overlook the fact that our failures are often more instructive than our successes, and might have lessons to teach about today's challenges.
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A new type of associate degree program that combines five technology fields into one aims to prepare Warren County Community College students for the new age of automation and manufacturing careers.
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Modernizing an enterprise resource planning system is one of the most important tasks on any college CIO’s plate, especially with growing demands of interoperability and AI features on the horizon.
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Maintenance costs for outdated technology are prompting university officials to consider alternatives to 32 blue-light emergency callboxes set up around campus, though the university doesn't track call data or repairs.
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Connecticut is committing up to $121 million to develop quantum technology, state officials and leaders of the University of Connecticut and Yale University announced Thursday.
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A $6 million partnership with Google will enable Georgia State University to provide daily AI and machine learning instruction to selected public school students on the university’s campus.
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AI@UW, an initiative largely funded by a philanthropic donation, will include AI literacy, as well as establish an AI governance committee, scholarships for students, and investments in resources and equipment.
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Princeton University officials confirmed that a cyber criminal used a phishing attack last week to gain access to a database containing personal information on alumni, donors, students and others.
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As part of a $50 million investment in regional education, workforce development and housing, QTS Data Centers is backing research at the University of Wisconsin-Madison on topics like grid stability and energy storage.
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A major new institute under development at the University of Michigan will involve a five-year investment and focus on biological artificial intelligence, clinical trials and commercialization.
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