Higher Education

The Esport Company and Greater Johnstown Community YMCA are putting together a conference called TEC — technology, education, community — with gaming tournaments for high school and college students.

Donations from a nonprofit, the county, the city and its downtown development authority will go toward hiring new faculty with technology backgrounds and the launch of a web portal summarizing the college's tech efforts.

Hosted by the State University of New York in Oneonta, seven panelists spoke about the importance of manufacturing for creating employment, and the importance of training and recruiting employees for the industry.

The nonprofit's latest initiative is an introduction to computers workshop for senior citizens that aims to tackle the digital divide and teach technology skills and practices for navigating a digital-first job market.

Researchers at the university will launch a rocket loaded with instruments from NASA, Dartmouth College, University of New Hampshire, University of Electro-Communications in Tokyo and the U.S. Air Force Academy.

The New York University engineering school's new training program seeks to upskill IT professionals for new cybersecurity challenges and trends, as workplaces become more reliant on remote work.

The U.S. Department of Education has updated its online transparency tool for prospective college students and families with more fine-grained data on potential costs, graduation rates, earnings and other metrics.

Researchers at the University of Missouri will use $12 million awarded by the U.S. Department of Education to research classroom applications for speech recognition tools and game-based learning.

The inaugural year of the mentorship program, organized by Bowdoin College CIO Michael Cato, will prepare women and people of color in higher education IT for senior leadership positions in the field.

Classes are proceeding as scheduled, but the Washington institution's local servers, website and campus WiFi are down, and officials are unsure whether confidential personal data was compromised.

The partnership will prepare Revature employees for work as software engineers by giving them paid training and a chance to finish their degrees through online courses through the University of Arizona Global Campus.

In a Q&A with The Advocate, the director of UL at Lafayette’s Energy Efficiency and Sustainable Energy Center discusses a new program to train engineers and technicians for work in the solar industry.

The Dallas-Fort Worth area has a bevy of options for local senior citizens to take computer classes at senior centers, libraries, community colleges, assisted living facilities and other organizations.

Through a grant from the Federal Aviation Administration, the University of North Dakota will provide drone racing kits and professional development workshops for high school teachers throughout the state.

A partnership between Florida International University and Factory360, a marketing agency in South Florida, intends to prepare hospitality students for the technology and protocols involved with hybrid events.

The new Texas Manufacturing x Transformation Hub will train IT professionals to protect networks used by manufacturers, where autonomous technologies and other digital tools will present new cybersecurity vulnerabilities.

With students falling behind over months or years of remote learning, online tutoring has become a popular solution, and certain design principles might help make it effective at scale for millions trying to catch up.

The Gula Tech Foundation awarded the Mid-Atlantic Gigabit Innovation Collaboratory, whose “capture the flag” competitions challenge high school or college students to use hacking tools and coding skills to solve puzzles.