Higher Education

As the state lags behind the nation in job and income growth, particularly for recent college graduates, announcements from financial-tech and technology-services companies have committed to creating hundreds of jobs.

Amid a nationwide rise in cybersecurity crimes over the past year, Joplin Schools, city officials and other public agencies are buying insurance and training staff on best practices to fend off cyber attacks.

Faced with declining enrollment and other financial pressures, Pennsylvania’s State System of Higher Education will vote this week on a plan to consolidate several campuses and offer hybrid or remote classes.

The growing popularity of electronic transactions has led schools to invest in tools like BlueSnap, a digital payment platform that expedites billing for expenses such as meal costs in K-12 and tuition at universities.

The university intends to use the federal funds to grow its research capacity, improve its labs, create industry partnerships and create 475 jobs for engineers and technicians over the next decade.

In buying a downtown building for relocation as it separates from Fairmont State University, Pierpont Community and Technical College expects more collaboration with the city of Clarksburg in the future.

As IT careers become increasingly competitive and essential, colleges and universities must work to retain IT staff with flexibility, healthy environments and meaningful work, or risk losing them to the private sector.

While community colleges across the U.S. saw enrollment decline last year, the South Bend-Elkhart campus of Indiana’s public community college system held steady, in part due to dual enrollment and continuing education.

Recently proposed legislation would allow the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to give federal grants to academic medical centers such as the University of Rochester and the State University of New York.

Proponents of HB 1261 say that a buy-one-get-one-free offer for college credits in fields such as IT, engineering and computer sciences would incentivize the creation of a much-needed workforce.

Central New Mexico Community College is exporting its Deep Dive Coding and Technology boot camps, offering them as a template for other colleges to launch their own tech workforce development courses.

Funds from the university's public-private partnership will go toward seven initiatives, including faculty research projects, space research, a health data resource and understanding student equity.

Concordia and Dominican universities in River Forest, Ill. will teach a four-course program for post-baccalaureate students on both the technical and social issues that surround cybersecurity.

With a $5.4 million grant from the U.S. Department of Labor, the city of Refuge will offer free training in cybersecurity and web development to 280 high school graduates from high-poverty areas over the next four years.

The University of Southern Mississippi and the nonprofit Mississippi Coding Academies have partnered to set up tuition-free training programs in coding and cybersecurity in downtown Biloxi, Miss.

The university joined others in New York, Utah and North Carolina as part of the National Science Foundation's research of new wireless devices, protocols and applications to improve broadband connectivity.

While advocates for major spending weren't fully satisfied, digital learning, work-based learning and expedited high school for college-ready students are part of the future of higher education in Texas.

The play is a collaboration between students of design, computer science and the Electronic Visualization Laboratory in Chicago, along with theater director Jo Cattell and professional actors from the Goodman Theatre.