Higher Education

With hundreds of millions of state and federal dollars pouring into regional training programs for the semiconductor industry, colleges are placing students right after graduation, and local high schools are buying in, too.

Starting this fall at Delgado Community College and the Ohio Association of Community Colleges, the nonprofits Complete College America and One Million Degrees will offer academic and financial support services.

For educators, creating lifelong learners is part of the job. A glance back at novel ideas and once-new uses of technology, even minor ones, reveals how innovative thinking and problem solving can echo through time.

Defunding the California Education Learning Lab would eliminate research and crucial support programs to help both K-12 schools and higher education in California adapt to artificial intelligence.

The University of Texas at San Antonio will build a $135 million command center that will work with Regional Security Operations Centers across the state to repair weaknesses in government systems and educate users.

A private liberal arts college in Portland, Ore., settled a class-action lawsuit after cyber criminals stole data of employees, students and alumni in 2023, and the college didn't send notifications until a year later.

A new project between the University at Albany's Atmospheric Sciences Research Center and the weather intelligence company Tomorrow.io will use high-performance computing and real-time data from both space and the ground.

Some of the promised test centers were unavailable and others were chaotic, with shouts from some test-takers that their screens had frozen while others were trying to answer the same questions.

The Federation of American Scientists has acquired MetroLab Network to expand the work in policymaking and local tech innovation the organizations do through universities and government partnerships.

The present situation — computers grading papers written by computers, students and professors idly observing, and parents paying tens of thousands of dollars a year for the privilege — is a crisis in the making.

One year after launch, Southern Connecticut State University's Office of Workforce and Lifelong Learning, with programs in subjects like coding and cybersecurity, is in higher demand than the university expected.

The nonprofit AI Education Project recently posted the first several episodes from aiEDU Studios, a platform for long-form, in-depth conversations with experts on artificial intelligence and education.

A venture fund within Tulane University's Innovation Institute will lead a $1 million funding round for a New Orleans-based company Hilight, whose online tool proposes to save schools up to $25,000 to replace lost staff.

The new center will update obsolete technology for the university's aviation program and feature a new dispatch center, book store, private debriefing spaces and a 16,000 square-foot event space.

A workshop for energy and data center developers, state agencies and community leaders to discuss affected industries, power providers and policy and regulatory agencies is planned for Sept. 18.

In addition to classes focused on in-demand fields such as IT and mechatronics, the Dallas College RedBird Center also has a support network to offer students career coaching tailored to certification programs.

Despite the fact that "fostering AI competency" was a stated priority for the National Endowment for the Arts under the Trump administration, many projects involving AI are losing their grant funding anyway.

A writer for Inc.com argues that there is no level of digital or even physical precaution in test-taking that isn’t going to eventually be susceptible to some form of mass-adopted digital cheating.