Education

Law enforcement is still investigating the data breach of a South Carolina school district in June after an employee opened a phishing email. The culprits have since posted some student information online.

Amid so much promotion, news coverage and forecasting about artificial intelligence, the university CIO must distinguish between practical, impactful applications and those driven by hype or outweighed by risk.

Eastern West Virginia Community and Technical College will create workforce-aligned AI education pathways with input from IBM and Northrop Grumman on which competencies are most needed by employers.

Technical College System of Georgia Commissioner Greg Dozier said enrollment last year was at its highest point since 2013, and the colleges are working to integrate AI into various learning programs.

In 2016, Hawaii's governor announced the “Cool Classrooms Initiative" in response to public outcry. Nearly 10 years and more than $120 million later, Hawaii still has no reliable plan to cool its classrooms.

A recent poll found a 13 percent drop in support for using AI to prepare lesson plans, a 9 percent drop in support for AI as practice for standardized tests, and a 5 percent drop in support for students using it on homework.

With its acquisition of tbh, which supports students in need of food and other basic needs, the mental health platform Uwill is expanding beyond therapy and care to include features for food, housing and financial aid.

By integrating its student information system with TuitionEP's payment features, the Nebraska-based software company aims to simplify the digital administration of student records, communications and payments.

While the initial rollout of the EZ A2B app led to some confusion for parents and district staff, administrators say it has put bus drivers and parents at ease by tracking where their student is at any given time.

The inaugural NextTech Kern conference at Cal State Bakersfield in October, intended to be a community event, will explore how artificial intelligence is set to affect education, businesses and digital safety.

After detecting an unauthorized party trying to hack its network, a private Catholic university in Texas has been without a website and servers connected to various operations for more than a week.

As cyber attacks against colleges and universities have gotten more frequent and sophisticated, tools and practices for recovering identity systems need to evolve, too.

The PACK AI initiative at the University of Nevada, Reno brings artificial intelligence to the fore through new student programs, new classes, tools, faculty training and events.

Coinciding with an explosion of AI in the health care industry, higher education programs like the college of nursing at the University of Dayton and Wright State University are using tech to modernize their courses.

In his State of the University address this week, President Andrew Armacost outlined several major projects for the University of North Dakota, one of which was becoming "the AI university for North Dakota."

A private liberal arts college in Pennsylvania is offering 28 microcredentials, or digital badges that indicate acquired skills, in fields like AI engineering, game design and cybersecurity risk analysis.

School IT leaders are experimenting with different methods to improve the life cycle of student devices. Without targeted federal funding, 1:1 programs will need other sustainable revenue streams to survive.

A recent professional learning session for College Community School District educators featured speakers from Google and the University of Iowa, and conversations about AI's future in the workforce and the classroom.