Higher Education

The pandemic brought accelerated tech adoption, new funding opportunities and operational changes to higher education. The near future may require careful prioritization and institutional investment.

The nonprofit Women Leading Technology is working with the University of Texas at Dallas, the city of Richardson and Techie Factory to introduce girls and young women to architecture as a potential career.

The Data Science and Literacy Act introduced last month aims to improve, and increase access to, data science education by funding professional development, new curricula and STEM equity programs.

With considerable state funding and industry partnerships, South Florida's colleges and universities are rushing to attract and prepare students to accommodate recent growth in Miami’s technology and finance sectors.

A public community college in Ohio is partnering with a defense technology firm for curriculum development and internships to train a workforce capable of filling jobs in modeling, simulation and cybersecurity.

Louisiana State University students say using ChatGPT to cheat can be counterproductive in the long run, and faculty are divided on how it will change teaching or whether university-wide regulations would be appropriate.

Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology will use a state grant to give elementary and secondary school educators the latest materials and skills for teaching robotics, computer programming and cybersecurity.

Despite the fast-evolving capabilities of AI chatbots to write code as well as human language, many computer science educators see significant limits for these tools in accuracy, security and copyright infringement.

A private college in Ohio is giving students the option to minor in esports management after an introductory course saw heavy demand, and as the industry reports more than $1.5 billion in annual revenue.

Collaborating with Texas Southern and Texas A&M universities, professors and students at Prairie View are working on an artificial intelligence system that would use NASA's data to answer science questions from the public.

Some ed-tech experts say the need to close the digital divide will only grow more urgent as Internet-based artificial intelligence tools become commonplace in schools and universities.

A public community college in Massachusetts was set to reopen campuses Wednesday after shutting down for a couple days due to a cyber attack, the source and effects of which are still under investigation.

IBM is working with a private Christian university in Kentucky to provide no-cost training for STEM careers that involve IT and business, such as enterprise data science and building cloud-based mobile tools.

An ed-tech company that has historically focused on culinary training recently bought Medical Marijuana 411, which offers online training programs for health-care and cannabis industry professionals.

The college will use funding from the Connecting Minority Communities Pilot Program, part of the Bipartisan Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, to help Latino and low-income students in remote and hybrid learning.

The university is still working on network outages after shutting down its systems in late February in response to a security incident. Officials are unsure if personal information was compromised.

Northern Essex Community College in Massachusetts shut down its Haverhill and Lawrence campuses Monday while it worked with law enforcement and conducted a full systems audit to assess the damage.

Starting in September, ed-tech companies that handle programs funded by Title IV, such as student recruitment, will be subject to reporting and audit requirements established by the U.S. Department of Education.