Higher Education

Chicago-based ed tech startup Upkey is offering an online internship program to 10,000 students to learn new skill sets in technology leadership, marketing and communication, among other skills.

The National Science Foundation has given almost $300,000 to Robeson Community College, North Carolina, for a three-year expansion of cybersecurity training, Internet access other IT programming.

Over the next three years, IBM's Global University Programs group will help fund career development at Miami Dade College in fields such as artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, cloud computing, quantum computing.

Cybersecurity for schools and institutions has become increasingly critical with an onslaught of cyber attacks and growing dependence on technology. Securing networks and data is a process that requires careful planning.

Gov. Henry McMaster will apportion another $1.5 million for a workforce development program for young people, and $9 million for charter schools to accommodate growing enrollment in person and online.

Distinguished professors from New York University, Columbia University and the Institute of International Education held a webinar on Wednesday about the post-pandemic future of higher education.

Lowe’s and the University of North Carolina, Charlotte have announced the donation will create a new faculty position at the school’s College of Computing and Infomatics, for researching AI and machine learning.

Some education officials view anti-cheating software as an important part of maintaining integrity of exams during remote learning, but the tools have raised privacy concerns among students and digital rights activists.

The university has opened its new 320,000-square-foot facility for the spring semester, intended to enhance STEM programming and help the state meet growing workforce demands for math and science professionals.

The University of Texas at Dallas and the city of Richardson are in the process of turning about 1,200 acres in one of the city’s oldest business areas into an "innovation quarter" with five new technology research centers.

The new funding from the Appalachian Regional Commission will go toward workforce training equipment at the center, which aims to develop employees in autonomous technology, cybersecurity, clean energy and other areas.

Stanford University and the University of California are among those warning users that their personal information may have leaked online after the security breach of a file-sharing system from the IT company Accellion.

Mechatronics, an interdisciplinary field combining robotics with electrical and mechanical engineering, is an in-demand field for engineers and a burgeoning program at the University of Tennessee Chattanooga.

The New Hampshire-based nonprofit Future in Sight has partnered with the University of Massachusetts Boston to recruit more teachers who can work with reading devices and other needs of visually impaired students.

Three years after launching a cybersecurity degree program, South Carolina’s Benedict College has signed a deal to guarantee successful undergrads a spot in ECPI University’s online masters program for cybersecurity.

A grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture will fund technology upgrades at 42 locations, including 26 web conference-enabled classrooms, and help expand healthcare and education in rural areas.

Robot makers in Philadelphia say their biggest challenge is a shortage of skilled labor, and students who finish trade school, an apprenticeship or a two-year program can qualify for jobs starting at $62,000 a year.

Two amendments being considered by the North Dakota Legislature would give money to research and career and technical education programs in the state, as well as money for UND's space command initiative.