Higher Education

New features in Internet2's Cloud Scorecard for research and education enhance search capabilities and include questions about artificial intelligence to help institutions find cloud services that best fit their needs.

Getty Images and Ancestry will help historically Black colleges and universities preserve their records in digital form, allow them to collect licensing fees, and give students access to ancestry.com.

Through Maryland’s Cyber Workforce Accelerator program, students at 16 community colleges across the state have access to the Cyber Series 3000, allowing them to build cybersecurity skills in simulated scenarios.

A partnership between the state of Maryland and the U.S. Department of Defense establishes a “Capital of Quantum Benchmarking Hub” at the University of Maryland’s Applied Research Laboratory for Intelligence and Security.

A private university in Michigan will offer a Bachelor of Applied Science in Cybersecurity degree, achievable with 90 credits and developed by the university's experts in management information systems and cybersecurity.

The contest pooled questions in a variety of disciplines and asked students to answer them solely using AI. The responses could reveal which kinds of assignments are better protected against unsanctioned AI use.

After 10 years in development, the Madera Cyber Innovation Center just north of Colorado Springs will accommodate 1,400 students annually as they learn to simulate and combat cyber threats from hostile nations.

The new Center for Leadership, Institutional Metrics and Best Practices run by the nonprofit Complete College America will give colleges tools to track predictors of success and incorporate them into strategic planning.

The Meritocracy Fellowship program at Palantir, a controversial tech company owned by Peter Thiel, offers an internship in place of traditional higher education. Students see both advantages and disadvantages.

The State Bar has petitioned the court to adjust hundreds of test scores due to technical problems, and the court is demanding answers from the State Bar about how and why it used AI to develop exam questions.

The State Bar of California stirred some controversy when it disclosed that some questions on this year's exam were developed with the assistance of AI by ACS Ventures, the State Bar's independent psychometrician.

Money from the Oregon CHIPS Act, a package of legislation from 2023, will help Oregon colleges and universities hire artificial intelligence faculty and technical experts.

The university's pilot program, which will use virtual teaching assistants to explain course concepts to students and guide them through problems, will contribute to a study on virtual TAs working across 26 campuses.

More than one million American women were working in STEM occupations in 2023, only representing 26 percent of the STEM workforce, according to a networking organization. In 2016, they were 21 percent.

In the face of stress and uncertainty around the future of higher education, the CIO of a community college in Oregon suggests a CARES framework of priorities: communicate, adapt, relationships, empower and stay calm.

The first associate's degree program of its kind at a community college in Alabama prepares students for careers in AutoCAD design, surveying and construction applications. It's also open to dual-enrolled high schoolers.

At the ASU+GSV AI Show, a former IES leader and those who have benefitted from its work discussed the value of education research and what to focus on when rebuilding ed-tech research systems.

A joint venture between several universities, the Massachusetts Green High Performance Computing Center is building computing capacity with investments expected to top $100 million over the next five years.