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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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Riverland Community College in Minnesota is building capacity to train technicians in manufacturing and logistics, as well as launching a new robotics certificate program and planning a robotics degree in the future.
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Illini Esports, a student-run club featuring several competitive video gaming teams, will host its first-ever invitational tournament this weekend with nearly 300 competitors from five states.
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Launched last year to track student success after high school, the Indiana Department of Education’s new “Graduates Prepared to Succeed” online dashboard aims to make districts more accountable to state benchmarks.
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A Texas college's Experience Lab, with 16 Meta Quest 2 Oculus headsets that allow users to interact within computer-generated environments, is helping professors add new dimensions and sensory aspects to their lessons.
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UNO confirmed Monday that several services had been restored, and others will be brought back online incrementally while state authorities investigate the intrusion and whether anyone's personal data was compromised.
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Eastern Iowa Community Colleges launched their annual Women in IT Conference last week with a keynote from a Davenport North High School student who founded a nonprofit to provide tech support to local veterans.
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Students and staff are expressing frustration while Louisiana State Police and the governor's office investigate possible cyber threats that prompted a handful of colleges to shut down their Internet services.
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An unauthorized intruder accessed the network of a private Catholic university in Texas around Aug. 30 last year, and some students and faculty learned from credit card companies that their data had been compromised.
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A Washington college's website and campus WiFi are down after a ransomware attack this week, which local and federal officials are investigating while students and staff work remotely until further notice.
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Chattanooga Mayor Tim Kelly unveiled a new initiative, "Gig City Goes Quantum," for which the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga and Chattanooga State Community College will boost training in quantum technologies.
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Pima County's local college, technical education district and tech centers have collectively invested millions in renovations and expansions in recent years to boost technology-focused workforce-development programs.
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A senior computer-science major at Vanderbilt University in Tennessee is working on a web-based application that digitizes paperwork for Her Future Coalition, a nonprofit for human trafficking victims in India and Nepal.
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Twenty-four founders of tech companies in Alabama endorsed the college's request for a one-time infusion of public money, advising the state not to lose a valuable part of its talent pipeline for the innovation sector.
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Speaking at the annual CoSN conference Monday, education author Michael Horn outlined the ways that schools can use technology to rethink instruction and create a “mastery-based” learning model.
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Onondaga Community College's new supply chain management degree will help prepare a workforce for a massive computer memory chip plant planned for construction by Micron Technologies in Clay.
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Training systems like Georgia’s Cyber Range are crucial, enabling students to practice their tech skills with real-world scenarios such as machine learning for a manufacturer or information security on a mobile app.
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Planned academic restructuring at the university will include a new School of Emerging and Applied Technologies, which will accommodate a new cybersecurity degree as well as programs on data science, VR/AR and AI.
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An initiative through Arizona State University’s Thunderbird School of Global Management is trying to make higher education more accessible to women and girls around the globe via the Canvas online learning platform.
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