Education

IBM is working with a private Christian university in Kentucky to provide no-cost training for STEM careers that involve IT and business, such as enterprise data science and building cloud-based mobile tools.

An ed-tech company that has historically focused on culinary training recently bought Medical Marijuana 411, which offers online training programs for health-care and cannabis industry professionals.

Several Albany-area districts have partnered with BusPatrol to equip their bus fleets with stop-arm photo enforcement technology that captures license plates of illegal passers and is funded by tickets paid by violators.

The college will use funding from the Connecting Minority Communities Pilot Program, part of the Bipartisan Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, to help Latino and low-income students in remote and hybrid learning.

The university is still working on network outages after shutting down its systems in late February in response to a security incident. Officials are unsure if personal information was compromised.

Colorado's largest school district discovered on Jan. 4, and has now informed all employees, that a data breach compromised Social Security numbers, bank account numbers, passport numbers and other sensitive information.

A Virginia high school last weekend hosted students from 16 high schools across the state in a cybersecurity competition that tested their skills in cryptography, networking and reconnaissance.

Northern Essex Community College in Massachusetts shut down its Haverhill and Lawrence campuses Monday while it worked with law enforcement and conducted a full systems audit to assess the damage.

Starting in September, ed-tech companies that handle programs funded by Title IV, such as student recruitment, will be subject to reporting and audit requirements established by the U.S. Department of Education.

Three HBCUs in Virginia will receive nearly $10 million in federal funding from the Connecting Minority Communities Pilot Program to close the digital divide and provide students with additional tech job training.

As part of a paid partnership with the company, star gymnast Oliva Dunne recently promoted the use of Caktus AI to help students automate their classwork. LSU warned students to be careful how they use AI tools.

The State Board of Higher Education has yet to make a decision on whether or not to ban access to the social media app on college networks, but students and staff say they're aware of the information security concerns.

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.

A free event organized by St. Clair County Community College in Michigan aims to get students interested in STEM with virtual reality experiences, robotics, virtual anatomy dissection, rocket launches and other exhibits.

A Texas district's guidance counselors hosted an event to make parents aware of how students can be affected by social media and what their options are for managing technology's opportunities and pitfalls.

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.

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.

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.