Education

UC Berkeley aims to capture interest with plans for a $2 billion, 36-acre space center at NASA Ames Research Center in Silicon Valley, which will feature needed classrooms, laboratories and housing.

One district reported nearly 4,000 tickets in a week, and hundreds of requests for help on any given day at the beginning of the academic year is common. Heads of tech support teams detailed how they dealt with the surges.

Stillwater Public Schools continues to develop its 1:1 technology initiative — a program launched for the 2023-24 academic year and funded by monies from a new bond initiative passed this year.

The federal E-rate program has the potential to be a well of funding for cybersecurity that K-12 schools and libraries are eager to tap to protect themselves from increasingly sophisticated cyber criminals.

As school districts see a rise in the use of artificial intelligence, educators say they’re figuring out ways to ensure the new tools are being used responsibly and don’t impede student learning.

Students are playing a key role in tweaking a mobile app that offers 24/7 advice, reassurances, and links to activities or informational videos for teens, and it's relieving some overworked school counselors.

New York University and the Korean Advanced Institute of Science and Technology will collaborate on research to study how advances in artificial intelligence will impact society moving forward.

Starting this spring, Louisiana State University's humanities and social-science departments will begin teaching students how to use artificial intelligence in research related to their fields.

Public school districts in Rochester and nearby Stewartville, Minnesota, are using the cybersecurity platform Arctic Wolf on top of their own IT security after Rochester suffered a cyber attack in the spring.

The Boys & Girls Club of Cheyenne and After School for Kids recently got donations of cash from AT&T to support digital literacy in rural communities, as well as 50 computers to distribute to families in need.

As the frequency and cost of cyber attacks on higher education continue to increase, CIOs and IT staff should be especially vigilant, training staff on cyber safety and communicating best practices to all network users.

A Cybersecurity Center of Excellence set to open next year will include a cyber range, or practice space, as well as a security operations center where interns will work alongside professionals to defeat real-world threats.

Experts in school security and student data privacy advise schools to scrutinize claims made by vendors of facial-recognition technologies and be fully aware of their drawbacks, particularly concerning data privacy.

With the installation of the IBM Quantum System One, inside campus's Voorhees Computing Center for student use, a private research university in New York will be the world's first college to have a quantum computer.

Given the scale of cyber threats against universities today and the number of digital tools they depend upon, IT leaders should prioritize working with vendors that are reliable, proactive and responsive to such threats.

A new, free online resource from the nonprofit Consortium for School Networking makes cybersecurity standards from the National Institute of Standards and Technology intelligible and achievable for K-12 leaders.

A New York community college's newly opened mechatronics lab provides students with high-tech training in electronics, robotics, mechanics, HVAC systems and automated manufacturing to earn certifications.

Starting next semester, the university will offer a fully remote bachelor's degree program to attract non-local students while it develops classes to be able to offer the computer-science program in-person in the future.